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Weekly News Digest
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April 22, 2025 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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OASPA Introduces Project to Study the OA Transition
OASPA is launching the Next 50% project, which will “seek consensus and pathways forward for the ‘next 50%’ of the open access transition. This is not just about doing more open access, or converting more paywalled content to open access, but about navigating the transition to openness in a fuller sense. … We suggest that the true transition is not moving from 50% to 100% open access, but transitioning to a system that is open for all scholars, and all ways of knowing.”OASPA continues, “The project will acknowledge and actively engage publishing organisations across a variety of models and disciplines, many already delivering 100% open access. Sector-wide transition includes those operating on APCs and Read & Publish/Transformative open access publishing deals; those using Subscribe to Open and other forms of collective action; free to read, free to publish open access enabled through grant, society, library, or other funding; as well as open infrastructures and platforms. Libraries, consortia, and funders who pay for, support and invest in publishing are vital partners, and will be involved as well.” For more information, read the news item.
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