3 March 2016 The Open Data Button has now soft launched. You can use the Button, see your requests and share them. After a few early hiccups (see tweets) we’re now planning to push the Open Data Button out to people early next week. Stay tuned for more, especially our next post on Open Data Day.

22 January 2016 Hidden data is hindering research, and we’re tired of it. Next week we’ll release the Open Data Button beta as part of Open Data Day. The Open Data Button will help people find, release, and share the data behind papers. We need your support to share, test, and improve the Open Data Button. Today, we’re going to provide some in depth info about the tool.

12 January 2016 We are delighted to announce that we have been working on an incubator grant from the Center for Open Science, to help advance openness, integrity, and reproducibility in science. We will be using this grant to build a brand new tool to include Open Data in our work. Like research articles, research data is often not openly available, preventing you from building upon the research and making science reproducible.

30 June 2015 Last Summer, a number of organisations learnt about the case of Diego Gomez. Diego Gomez, a Colombian graduate student, currently faces up to eight years in prison for doing something thousands of researchers do every day: posting research results online for those who would not otherwise have a way to access them. (Photo Credit: Electronic Frontier Foundation.

22 June 2015 Last Summer, we learnt about the case of Diego Gomez. Diego Gomez, a Colombian graduate student, currently faces up to eight years in prison for doing something thousands of researchers do every day: posting research results online for those who would not otherwise have a way to access them. I want to support Diego Diego has posted a letter on Fundacion Karisma’s website informing us that his trial begins next week on 30th June.

12 June 2015 This is a repost of a blog that can be found at http://opencon2015.org/blog/opencon-2015-applications-are-open. Many Open Access Button team members were present at OpenCon 2014 and we couldn’t reccomend applying highly enough. Applications to attend OpenCon 2015 on November 14–16 in Brussels, Belgium are now open!

11 June 2015 We all know the frustration of not being able to afford $40 to access the article you need. Open Access is about providing free, immediate online access to research articles. The Open Access Button helps you get the research you want right now, and adds papers you still need to your wishlist.

6 May 2015 Vote for us in the Jisc Supporting Technology Startup Project here . Friends, You have not heard from us in recent months but quietly in the background we have continued working hard. We have been overcoming challenges, applying for several grants and reviewing how we work to be as effective as we can be over the coming years.

6 February 2015 Yesterday as Open Access Button Co-founders and Co-leads, we (David Carroll and Joe McArthur) received the SPARC Innovator Award. The Innovator Award recognises individuals, institutions, and groups that challenge the status quo in scholarly communication for the benefit of researchers, libraries, universities, and the public.

Negotiations between Dutch universities and scholarly publishing giant Elsevier regarding unaffordable subscription fees and open access have ‘ground to a halt’. In other Elsevier news, two of its major brands, Cell Press and The Lancet , have joined forces to launch a new open access journal, EBioMedicine . The broad-spectrum journal will publish research papers covering the entire breadth of life and health sciences,

What has been happening in the world of Open Access in the last week? We’ve been actively promoting our Thunderclap campaign, and have been fortunate to receive incredible support, reaching over one million people. Thank you to all who added their contribution! There are still 4 days left till the launch of the new Open Access Button, so please help us spread the word!