Open Access Button

The Open Access Button is now built by OA.Works. Same people, new name! Read more about our rebrand.

The Open Data Button has now merged with the Open Access Button. Your account and request will stay the same, but you'll need to get the new plugin. For more on the changes see our blog.

Thanks for your support! Team Button has now merged with the Open Access Button and our Request system.

Leaders

These leading institutions and individuals have stepped up to advance open research and community ownership of scholarship by financially supporting our work.

We’re incredibly grateful for their generous, essential support.

Join them

"We provide leadership support as an investment in community-owned infrastructure that improves our services, helps reduce dependency on subscriptions, and advances equitable access to information."

Tina Baich
Senior Associate Dean for Scholarly Communication & Content Strategies

"The OAB team is developing essential tools and support to advance open for a more equitable and sustainable system of scholarly publishing. We are proud to support them."

Camille Thomas
Scholarly Communication Librarian

"We're excited to finally build everything we've learned from mediated deposit into a simple tool, not a dozen workarounds, that enables every library to make self-archiving not just the right thing, but the easy thing, for every author"

Leila Sterman
Scholarly Communication Librarian & Assistant Professor

"OAB provides material and immaterial support throughout the community. They've proven themselves to be one of the few stable community factors in an ever more aggressive and coopted market."

Chris Hartgerink
Founder

"InstantILL is key to UAL in helping our users discover Open Access material. Supporting this development at the leadership level demonstrates our strategic commitment to Open Access."

CJ de Jong
Access Services Coordinator, Librarian

With Foundational Support From

We’re not going to paywall our tools.
So we need your leadership.

You’ve seen our tools, now here’s the strategy. Redirect money and power in scholarly communications by reducing reliance on subscriptions so libraries have leverage to negotiate for better prices and terms with publishers in order to make a more equitable and open world. To reduce reliance on subscriptions, community owned tools have to Deliver Articles (differently) and Fill your Repository. We won’t let paying us to get in the way, it’s hard enough already, or stop libraries who can’t afford subscriptions already using our tools.

To continue our work, we need Leadership from libraries who want to join us on the cutting edge of open, or just benefit from our tools, to financially support our work.

Leadership Investment

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We’re community owned, so we’re asking you to buy in

Founded in 2013 by students frustrated by paywalls, we’ve worked since to help pioneer simple delivery of open access content in repositories, doing that in Interlibrary Loan and browser plugins, and more effective self-archiving workflows with funding from Arcadia Fund, Jisc, the Open Society Foundations, Center for Open Science, and SPARC.

Help us keep building for change, not for profit, by supporting our experimental, academy friendly model.

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Leaders

"We provide leadership support as an investment in community-owned infrastructure that improves our services, helps reduce dependency on subscriptions, and advances equitable access to information."

"The OAB team is developing essential tools and support to advance open for a more equitable and sustainable system of scholarly publishing. We are proud to support them."

"We're excited to finally build everything we've learned from mediated deposit into a simple tool, not a dozen workarounds, that enables every library to make self-archiving not just the right thing, but the easy thing, for every author"

"OAB provides material and immaterial support throughout the community. They've proven themselves to be one of the few stable community factors in an ever more aggressive and coopted market."

"InstantILL is key to UAL in helping our users discover Open Access material. Supporting this development at the leadership level demonstrates our strategic commitment to Open Access."

With Foundational Support From

We’re not going to paywall our tools.
So we need your leadership.

Leadership Investment

XXXX USD
per month

We’re community owned, so we’re asking you to buy in

Leaders

"We provide leadership support as an investment in community-owned infrastructure that improves our services, helps reduce dependency on subscriptions, and advances equitable access to information."

"The OAB team is developing essential tools and support to advance open for a more equitable and sustainable system of scholarly publishing. We are proud to support them."

"We're excited to finally build everything we've learned from mediated deposit into a simple tool, not a dozen workarounds, that enables every library to make self-archiving not just the right thing, but the easy thing, for every author"

"OAB provides material and immaterial support throughout the community. They've proven themselves to be one of the few stable community factors in an ever more aggressive and coopted market."

"InstantILL is key to UAL in helping our users discover Open Access material. Supporting this development at the leadership level demonstrates our strategic commitment to Open Access."

With Foundational Support From

We’re not going to paywall our tools. So we need your leadership.

Leadership Investment

XXXX USD per month

We’re community owned, so we’re asking you to buy in

We’re not going to paywall our tools.
So we need your leadership.

XXXX USD
per month