After exposing the many and varied arguments for open access (OA) monographs, the ticklish question of how OA monographs can make money is brought out. Three types of support are considered, together with the potential to reduce the cost of publication sufficiently to lessen the financial requirements of sustainability.

The University of Southern Queensland has delivered a beta search engine for open access journals, using spare capacity on AWS rather than on-campus supercomputers to crunch more than 16 million full-text records. A beta version of the search engine is now live, including traditional search results and a Google Books-style ngram interface.

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is strongly committed to Open Access and follows a progressive Open Access policy following the pioneering role of the Netherlands, with the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) becoming the first funding agency in the world to demand that the results of the research projects it funds be made available immediately and without restriction. The SNSF will continue to follow and play an active role in international developments. It supports the Amsterdam Call for Action on Open Science 2016, which aims to achieve full open access for all publicly funded scientific publications by 2020.

DOAJ removed approximately 3,300 journals for failure to submit a valid reapplication. The action of removal is another step in DOAJ’s two year long project to increase the value and accuracy of the information provided in it. Removed journals are welcome to submit a new application to DOAJ at any time. DOAJ will add a third tab to their spreadsheet “DOAJ: journals added and removed” that will list all of the journals removed.

This report published on the Open Science Platform ICM, University of Warsaw aims to provide Polish research institutions with a set of most important information and best practices that would help them in the implementation of openness in the polish context. Divided in two parts, the fist one includes four case studies of institutional OA policies. In the second part are formulated practical recommendations for Polish institutions. The full report is available in Polish.

The aim of this paper is to assess the statistical tools and data that the Finnish libraries currently have for comparing the costs associated with different modes of disseminating scientific publications. The potential costs associated with Open Access publishing models are analysed and compared with the current cost structure of  paywalled access. A description of current Finnish Open Access policies and their funding models are also provided, as well as the alternatives on how best to develop statistical tools to estimate the true costs of scientific publishing.

EIFL has announced a new 10-month project in Serbia, titled Revisiting open access journal policies and practices in Serbia, with the Serbian Library Consortium for Coordinated Acquisition (KoBSON – EIFL’s partner consortium in Serbia) and the National Library of Serbia. The project will improve visibility of Serbian OA journals, and enhance their attractiveness for researchers – both readers and authors.