Making Open Access Work
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) makes scholarly content freely available to everyone and contributes to the further development of the Open Access (OA) infrastructure. Our online marketplace provides libraries and institutions worldwide with a central place to support OA collections and models from leading publishing houses and new OA initiatives. With their support we transition monographs and journals in a wide variety of disciplines from paywalled to Open Access content. Additionally, KU offers various tools and services for stakeholders in the OA community. Our goal is simple: We want to make Open Access work!
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Knowledge Unlatched Renews Two Successful Open Access Collections, Ensuring Sustainability of Open Research Worldwide
In 2018, Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the central platform for Open Access (OA) financing models, has expanded into new collections and introduced new partnerships, resulting in the doubling of the number of books made available as Open Access.
wbv Media und Knowledge Unlatched (KU) schließen Pilotprojekt zur Open Access Finanzierung in der Pädagogik ab
Knowledge Unlatched is pleased to welcome two new trade partners to their international network of library suppliers: HARRASSOWITZ and SPUR Infosolutions.
This Poet in a Cupcake day can inspire one to explore transformations of contemporary Chinese society via accounts, analyses and assessments of its salient discourses and their production, circulation and negotiation in an edited volume by Qing Cao et al. https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/8dbf1090-bd69-47c6-9c24-bdaba3263fd5
The criticism of and response from the Internet Archive over digital access to e-books touches on the business ethics dilemma of if these are public or private goods, on which utilitarian, libertarian and categorical imperative perspectives likely disagree https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/authors-fume-as-online-library-lends-unlimited-free-books/
The copyright controversy over limit-free borrowing from the National Emergency Library initiative of the Internet Archive indicates that temporary free access does not act as a substitute for Open Access, because of intellectual property issues involved https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21200108/internet-archive-national-emergency-library-authors-guild-piracy-cdl