18 stories tagged open-access, newest first.
322 points by CosmoWenman | 190 comments
Cosmo Wenman's Substack post criticizing the court verdict in his legal fight with the Rodin Museum over public access to 3D scans of Rodin sculptures.
12 points by bryanrasmussen | 4 comments
Open-access European Journal of Physics paper on reconstructing 3D theme park ride trajectories with smartphone odometry to demonstrate Newtonian mechanics.
292 points by JohnHammersley | 38 comments
arXiv blog post announcing $17.2 million in multiyear philanthropic commitments from Simons Foundation International, XTX Markets, and Siegel Family Endowment to support its launch as an independent nonprofit.
774 points by bookstore-romeo | 268 comments
Science magazine news article reporting that the arXiv preprint server is becoming independent from Cornell University; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
323 points by coloneltcb | 68 comments
Open Culture article reporting that the Metropolitan Museum of Art released high-definition 3D scans of 140 famous art objects, including sarcophagi, paintings and sculptures.
1976 points by Kerrick | 233 comments
ACM announcement page stating that starting January 2026 all ACM publications and artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be open access.
365 points by pcvarmint | 47 comments
ACM page announcing its transition to a fully open access publishing model for all its research content by the end of 2025.
543 points by m463 | 97 comments
NIH Director statement announcing an accelerated July 1, 2025 implementation date for the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy making funded research freely available.
752 points by abetusk | 271 comments
Cosmo Wenman's Substack post on his seven-year legal campaign to force the Rodin Museum and French Ministry of Culture to release 3D scans, now before the Conseil d'État.
498 points by nabla9 | 173 comments
SPARC resource profiling how MIT Libraries handled ending its Big Deal subscription contract with Elsevier, part of its unbundling profiles knowledge base.
612 points by sohkamyung | 92 comments
Nature news article on Japan allocating 10 billion yen to institutional repositories to make the nation's publicly funded research free to read.
414 points by coloneltcb | 120 comments
Open Culture article reporting that the Getty has released nearly 88,000 art images free for anyone to use however they like.
1130 points by programd | 296 comments
arXiv blog post announcing that research papers are now available in HTML format to improve accessibility for users with disabilities.
570 points by __rito__ | 247 comments
Sheldon Axler's page announcing the fourth edition of the textbook Linear Algebra Done Right, released free as an Open Access book, with print pre-order links.
509 points by JohnHammersley | 136 comments
Cornell Chronicle article announcing that arXiv received over $10 million from the Simons Foundation and NSF to fund upgrades.
357 points by gslin | 42 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting that the EFF will give Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan an award for providing access to scientific knowledge.
![Screenshot of curia.europa.eu: EU Advocate General: Technical Standards must be freely available [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2023/6/23/85633782-a099-4c42-b19b-072b803de316.jpg)
386 points by layer8 | 72 comments
Court of Justice of the EU press release on an Advocate General opinion that harmonised technical standards must be freely accessible.
481 points by mindracer | 200 comments
Guardian/Observer article on the entire editorial board of a global science journal resigning in protest over an academic publisher's 'unethical' fees.