While the rest of the world was engaged in various year-end activities and celebrating the holidays, the open access (OA) movement continued to chalk up a number of key victories—and faced an unexpected curveball along the way.
From late September to December, we witnessed:
- The adoption of the first public access policy for state-funded research,
- A shift to put students and early career researchers at the center of the OA movement,
- A high-profile battle between “Big Deal” subscriptions and libraries in connection with OA, and
- The adoption of even more OA policies by big research funders.
