Success stories
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