ORFG member @Michelson 20MM Foundation celebrates the success of ZTC Degrees in California. Congrats to all the students, legislators, and advocates on this work! 🎉 Students are the future of research-- one important component of the open research ecosystem. #OER #ZeroTextbookCost #OpenResearch

Michelson20MM Celebrates Success of Zero Textbook Cost Degrees in California — Open Research Funders Group

In June, California State Senator Jesse Arreguín introduced a floor recognition to celebrate the positive  impact of the California Community College’s Zero Textbook Cost Degree Program.

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Great work by @openaccessmaven.bsky.social at the Gates Foundation. Gates is a leader in the private funding policy reform movement that sees policy as one mechanism to further improve the open ecosystem. 👏 #FunderPolicy

Ashley Farley @openaccessmaven.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In my latest article for Katina, I discuss why the Gates Foundation stopped funding APCs & what we've learned about building a more open, inclusive, and sustainable research ecosystem. katinamagazine.org/content/arti... #OpenAccess #OpenScience #ScholComm

Hot off the press! We have made our 2026 ORFG Funder Policy Landscape Analysis and Recommendations public! 🎉 This report analyzes access-to-research policies of ORFG members and other private funders of open research and open outputs.

We know who cites research. But do we know who funds it? 💰 Today, the Barcelona Declaration WG on Funding Metadata is publishing 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚: 𝐀 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 and a companion background document. 🔗 barcelona-declaration.org/news/2026052...

The ORFG is launching its public monthly email newsletter! Sign up now to receive a monthly email with a round of up readings to help you stay up to date on science and research policy, the open ecosystem, open infrastructure, open data, open access, and more! Sign up here: www.orfg.org/newsletter

📣 The Executive Summary from the ORFG 2026 Annual Meeting is here! Read more about the key themes that arose and the next steps we identified - all aiming to improve the open ecosystem! 👇 www.orfg.org/news/2026/3/... #OpenScience #OpenData #ResearchFunders #OpenAccess #OpenPolicy

Wowza! We had fun last Friday at our Annual Meeting. So many shoutouts to make, but for now, extra special thanks to @openaccessmaven.bsky.social for hosting us at the @gatesfoundation.bsky.social!!! #OpenOutputs #OpenResearch #OpenAccess #OpenData

#openscience #openoutputs #philanthropy #genai #openresearch #opendata | Open Research Funders Group

✨ Last Friday ORFG members and guests gathered in a cold (and snowy!) Seattle at the Gates Foundation headquarters for our Annual meeting. We could not be more grateful to our host Ashley Farley for ...

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ORFG Annual meeting in soggy Seattle today and tomorrow! ✨🌧️ 💖

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✨ Getting super jazzed for how I'll be spending this afternoon, evening, and all day tomorrow: with members of the Open Research Funders Group at our Annual meeting in the soggy Emerald City - Seattle...

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Now that the NIH has publicly shared all of the responses to its RFI on Limiting Allowable Publishing costs, we wanted to share a response crafted and signed by a subset of ORFG member organizations. Read more on our blog. www.orfg.org/news/2025/12... #OpenScience #OpenData #Preprints

ORFG Submits Comments to NIH on Allowable Costs — Open Research Funders Group

In September 2025 several ORFG member organizations signed a joint letter in response to the National Institutes of Health’s Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable...

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The DataCite Community Survey 2025 is open! Share your thoughts on #metadata, #PIDs & open infrastructure, and help us improve our services & engagement. Thank you for helping us shape the future of open & connected research: bit.ly/4850AFT Deadline: 1 Dec 2025 #OpenResearch #OpenScience

DataCite Annual Community Survey 2025

Your ideas and feedback are essential in guiding the vision and direction of DataCite. Please complete the survey before 01 December 2025. If you have any questions or comments, please contact us at i...

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URSSI applications for winter school are open! Funded by the Sloan Foundation, participants will engage in a 3-day hands on workshop. This is a good opportunity for grad students and post docs. More details below! urssi.us/blog/2025/11... #OpenScience #OpenCode #OpenSource

Newly released Stockholm Declaration recommends the following reforms to publishing: 1. Academia resumes control of publishing 2. Incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity 3. Independent fraud detection and prevention 4. Legislation and policies to protect science quality and integrity

Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration | Royal Society Open Science

Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data, text and image fabrication....

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ORFG Members celebrated @openrxiv.bsky.social at the @cziscience.bsky.social meeting! @gatesfoundation.bsky.social @hhmi.org @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org @schmidtsciences.bsky.social and others! We're excited about the future of preprints! #preprints #OpenScience #OpenFunders

Open Access Week highlights the power of free, immediate access to research by ensuring science benefits all. Proud to join @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social, @parkinsons.org.uk, @cureparkinsons.org.uk, @alleninstitute.org, @dataseerai.bsky.social, @strategiesos.bsky.social, @orfg.bsky.social & others 🔓

@icoropen.bsky.social launched Open Research Beacon, a hub for those in the open community to connect products, projects, and services. It's a great way to find out what's going on in "open" especially if you're a funder. #OpenScience #OpenResearch #OpenData #OpenCode www.orfg.org/news/2025/10...

Open Research Beacon Launches New Platform — Open Research Funders Group

Open Research Beacon , a community-driven resource catalog of open projects, has launched on a new platform showcasing nearly 100 projects and growing. It aims to connect organizations and individuals...

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Very exciting to see funders pushing for change in how outputs are communicated. Moving towards an interoperable knowledge stack every day. 👏👏👏 Nice work @hhmi.org @asterainstitute.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social #Preprints #OpenScholarship #OpenData #OpenScience

SPARC@sparcopen.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We just posted an impact story on policies at HHMI, Gates & Astera promoting #OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenData. Powerful signals to other funders to accelerate discovery in science. Well done @madubs.bsky.social @openaccessmaven.bsky.social @pracheeac.bsky.social! sparcopen.org/impact-story...

Europe’s #research still leans on foreign #datainfrastructure, a risk, warns the #EuropeanParliament. Dependence could undermine #openscience and #innovation, spurring calls for stronger EU capacity. 🔎Read here:

Dependence on foreign data infrastructure threatens EU research, Parliament hears

Europe must reduce its dependence on foreign-controlled databases, particularly those in the US, the European Parliament has heard. Dependence on these resources leaves European researchers and…

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We believe preprints and open peer review are central to reducing publishing expenses. 💰📝 We have crafted a response to NIH Request for Information on “Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs,” where you can learn about the details of our recommendations. buff.ly/v9I0i9v

ASAPbio Response To NIH Request For Information On “Maximizing Research Funds By Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs” (NOT-OD-25-138) – ASAPbio

NIH seeks to reduce its publishing expenses, while encouraging high quality research, in order to be good stewards of its limited public funding. Certainly,

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Big news! @hhmi.org has released an Immediate Access to Research policy that requires preprint deposit with CC-BY licenses and eliminates financial support for APCs. Congrats to all the folks at HHMI for making this happen! 🎊 #OpenScience #OpenResearch #Preprints www.linkedin.com/posts/orfg_i...

Immediate Access to Research | Open Research Funders Group

Folks at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) moving the open needle forward... great work in support of #Preprints #OpenScience #OpenData and #OpenResearch. Kudos! 🎊

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"We respectfully recommend that NIH prioritize direct investment—centrally and/or through allowable costs—in existing open infrastructure to disseminate research outputs." 👍 #OpenScience #Preprints

Invest in Open Infrastructure@investinopen.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We share our response to NIH's APC cap proposal. Key message: invest in shared #OpenInfrastructure to maximize the impact of taxpayer dollars accelerate knowledge dissemination and use, and strengthen the sustainability of #OpenResearch ecosystem. investinopen.org/blog/iois-re...

Great work coming out of the @americanheart.bsky.social in support of #OpenData and #OpenScience!

SPARC@sparcopen.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Hats off to the American Heart Association, an @orfg.bsky.social member, for walking grantees through how to make #OpenScience happen. New videos & training materials on the #AHAScience website help model open practices that can accelerate discovery in research. sparcopen.org/news/2025/am...

@txtbks.bsky.social of @sparcopen.bsky.social and Cailyn Nagle of Michelson 20MM Foundation talked with @thelever.bsky.social about automatic textbook billing. Great to see this problem getting news coverage. AND awesome to see funders doing something about it. #OpenAccess #OER #OpenFunder

How Wall Street Broke The College Bookstore | Open Research Funders Group

Shoutout to Nicole Allen of SPARC and Cailyn Nagle of Michelson 20MM Foundation who spoke to The Lever about the problems at university bookstores, particularly the use of automatic textbook billing. ...

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🗓 1week to go! Join us Sept 4, 11 AM ET, for the wrap-up of IOI’s Reasonable Costs project: findings, tools, and implementations for public access to research. Register now: investinopen.civicrm.org/civicrm/even...

Delighted to welcome @tracykteal.bsky.social as the CEO of @openrxiv.bsky.social - Tracy brings a wealth of experience in non-profit leadership and open science to the the team, and we're all so excited to be working with her openrxiv.org/announcing-c...

@creativecommons.bsky.social has released this new video on open licenses. 🎥 Take a peek and share with others who want/need to understand how CC licenses work. 🔁 #OpenAccess #copyright #OpenLicense #OpenScience #OpenResearch

Open Licensing for Research with Creative Commons

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Congress may be on recess, but there are still things coming out of DC that will have far-reaching effects on science funding and that continue to contribute to the the funding instability faced by many researchers. #SciencePolicy #funding

Alexandra Witze@alexwitze.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The president just issued an executive order asserting new and wide-ranging authority over the issuance of federal grants. This will have huge repercussions for the daily operations of US science. 🧪 Also, lawyers are gonna be lawyering. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

U.S. book publisher launches under "platinum open access" model - Research Information https://www.researchinformation.info/news/u-s-book-publisher-launches-under-platinum-open-access-model/

U.S. book publisher launches under "platinum open access" model - Research Information

Publisher "committed to equity, transparency, and author empowerment, eliminating barriers to knowledge dissemination"

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"Transparency filtered through the lens of editorial acceptance is not true transparency; it is selective disclosure." 👏👏👏 @bodorama.bsky.social #openscience #preprints #peerreview #nature

LSE Impact@lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 12mo ago

💥 New: Nature’s decision to publish positive peer review reports only gives half the picture ✍️ @bodorama.bsky.social #AcademicSky #PeerReview #ScholComm

Please help us welcome @schmidtsciences.bsky.social as the newest ORFG supporting member! 🎉https://www.orfg.org/news/2025/8/4/schmidt-sciences-joins-orfg #openscience #philanthropy #openresearch #opendata #sciencefunding

Schmidt Sciences Joins ORFG — Open Research Funders Group

The Open Research Funders Group (ORFG) is pleased to welcome Schmidt Sciences as a supporting member. Founded in 2024, Schmidt Sciences brings together the science-focused efforts of Eric and Wendy ...

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Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information Launches YouTube Channel (via @barcelonadori.bsky.social) barcelona-declaration.org/news/2025072... #openresearch #libraries