On this page you can browse all the open access success stories. They are presented here by country, to order differently select one of the menus on the right, or try the search box.

Denmark

Organic Eprints
Since 2002, Organic Eprints has been freely sharing information about organic agriculture and food with the world

First Monday
The first of its kind: a 15-year-old open access journal about the internet, catering to a diverse audience

Richard Clapp/Environmental Health
Overcoming censorship to publish publicly important research

Germany

Living Reviews
Introducing and expanding the concept of regularly updated journal articles

pedocs
In just three years, open access repository pedocs has secured cooperative relationships with the key German publishers in its field

JIPITEC
A pioneering open access legal journal

recensio.net
A Europe-wide, multi-language platform for scholarly reviews of historical literature, with a web 2.0 twist

Sven Fund, de Gruyter
Innovative partnership to pilot open access monograph publishing

Forum: Qualitative Social Research
A journal and network at the heart of the international qualitative research community

Connotations
Slowly but surely: a 15-year-long step-by-step move to open access sees submissions soar

Hungary

Dr Bertalan Mesko: open access and social media
A medical researcher discovers the power of combining open access with social media

Information Bulletin on Variable Stars
Fast, free and fifty: an open access star

Italy

ecancermedicalscience
Improving and speeding up cancer communication and education through the latest technology and multimedia

The Netherlands

Wageningen University repository
Comprehensively collecting and making available institutional research and grey literature

Institutions for Collective Action
Putting high quality historical research into a collaborative, open access environment

International Journal of the Commons
Building reputation through quality and fresh thinking around business models and social media

Norway

Polar Research
A journal transitions from closed to open with spectacular results

Portugal

Projecto Blimunda
A initiative to discover self-archiving policies that has opened the eyes of Portuguese journal publishers to open access

Serbia

doiSerbia
Making Serbia’s scientific journals part of international open access scientific publishing

Spain

Acceso abierto a la ciencia (Open Access to Science)
Active Spanish open access advocacy group

Switzerland

JIPITEC
A pioneering open access legal journal

UK

Dr Melissa Terras
A digital humanities scholar discovers what happens when you blog and tweet about an open access paper

ecancermedicalscience
Improving and speeding up cancer communication and education through the latest technology and multimedia

Open Book Publishers
Cambridge scholars taking monograph publishing into their own hands

Andrea di Falco, New Journal of Physics
An open access physics paper that sent ‘Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak’ flying around the world

Professor Tony Doyle, CERN Atlas
Using open access to collaborate on the largest experiment in the world – and inspire the next generation of particle physicists

Professor Emily Holmes: ‘Tetris paper’, PLoS ONE
A psychiatry paper about the power of Tetris scored highly thanks to open access

Bioline International
A trailblazing bioscience platform sharing bioscience research, globally

Eagle Genomics
Commercialising research in the open arena

US

First Monday
The first of its kind: a 15-year-old open access journal about the internet, catering to a diverse audience

Richard Clapp/Environmental Health
Overcoming censorship to publish publicly important research