Advocating for a 21st century copyright and open access environment across Europe in the area of education and research. Arcadia funded NGO.
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FRIDAY=SHARING & CARING! FRANCE’S #OPENSCIENCE STRATEGY
52% to 27% in 4 years: French institutions citing legal uncertainty as a barrier. Local training & guides grounded the national ambition.
🔗 By @CMFrancoise & Ophélie Wang for KR21: knowledgerights21.org/news-s…
#OpenAccess
SAVE OUR STORIES: WHY LIBRARIES NEED THE LAW ON THEIR SIDE
On #WDPD2026, KR21 highlights a growing black hole libraries face: digital content they only rent, restricted by contracts and digital locks.
🔗 5 steps for policymakers: knowledgerights21.org/news-s…
#LetLibrariesBeLibraries
STILL NOT ANSWERED THE EU’S COPYRIGHT CONSULTATION?
YOU HAVE UNTIL 10 NOVEMBER
Not answering is also an answer.
Watch for the poison pills, provisions that quietly drain a law of its effect.
🔗 ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner…
#Science4EU
OCTOBER 2026 KR21 NEWSLETTER
€170m a year in France alone by 2030: the price of leaving an #SPR out of the #ERAact. This and more in our October newsletter.
🔗 knowledgerights21.org/newsle…
Archive & Subscribe: kr21.info/newsletters
#UnitedForKnowledgeRights #Science4EU
SPAIN’S TWENTIETH-CENTURY BLACK HOLE
Zero works declared on the EUIPO portal. @aordas on the @FeriaLiber 2026 roundtable where @fesabid and CEDRO gave the latest state of play on talks about #OutOfCommerce works.
🔗 knowledgerights21.org/news-s…
#libraries #LetLibrariesBeLibraries
SILENCE HAS A COST: OPEN ADVOCATES ANSWER THE #COPYRIGHT CONSULTATION BY 10 NOV
The risks: new limits on #AI tools in science, control over research outputs & APCs locked in as the price of publishing.
Back an EU #SecondaryPublicationRight!
🔗 knowledgerights21.org/news-s…
#OAweek
SPR: #ERAACT IS THE RIGHT HOME
Leaving a #SecondaryPublicationRight to a 2027 #copyright reform would cost researchers
KR21, @ALLEA_academies, @LIBEReurope, @SPARC_EU & @IFLA make the case for including it in the European Research Area Act
🔗 knowledgerights21.org/news-s…
#Science4EU
KR21 IN CYPRUS: 2 DAYS ON #COPYRIGHT, #AI & #LIBRARIES
19 NOV (9:30-13:00)-NICOSIA: Workshop with the University of Nicosia Library & CALIS
✱ Anthi Baliou on AI literacy
✱ Giorgos Glossiotis on KR21’s Action Plan to #LetLibrariesBeLibraries.
🔗 Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
20 NOV (9:15-10:15)-LIMASSOL: CALIS, the UNIC Library & KR21 on IP & libraries, with Philippe Jougleux, Sylvia Koukounidou & MP Fotini Tsiridou
🔗 Programme: limassolbookfair.com/en/prog…
🔗 KR21’s Cyprus report: knowledgerights21.org/report…
#LetLibrariesBeLibraries #LimassolBookFair
4 NOV (14H CET) | OPEN ACCESS WEBINAR ALERT: SEVEN LIBRARIES SHOW HOW IT IS DONE!
7 @LIBEReurope Cascading Grant recipients put the LIBER Action Plan to work, with KR21’s support. Practical #OpenAccess approaches you can take back to your institutions.
🔗 libereurope.eu/event/improvi…
FRIDAY=SHARING & CARING! UNIFYING THE FIELD
Two days in Greece with @IFLA on turning the KR21 #LetLibrariesBeLibraries agenda into national wins: coalitions, evidence & associations ready to take copyright to policymakers.
#libraries #eBooks #eLending
🔗 knowledgerights21.org/news-s…
#OAWEEK: A NEW KR21 INSIGHTS ON OPENNESS & INTEGRITY
Do paywalls & APCs protect research integrity? Europe’s ethics codes say otherwise: sharing is part of integrity, not a trade-off. Time for an EU-wide secondary publication right.
🔗 knowledgerights21.org/news-s…
#ERAact #Science4EU
#OAWEEK: WHAT IS THE COST OF KEEPING KNOWLEDGE CLOSED?
Subscription bills & publishing fees are only part of the picture. The greater cost is the research that never reaches those who could use it. Who pays is the wrong question.
🔗 knowledgerights21.org/news-s…
#OpenAccess #Science4EU
TOMORROW AT 11:00 CEST (21 OCT): 1ST EUROPEAN E-BOOKS & E-LENDING COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
The e-Lending walls you keep hitting come up across Europe. Tomorrow you get to compare notes.
🔗 Details & Registration: kr21.info/ebooks-cop-meeting…
#eBookSOS #libraries #eBooks #eLending
FRIDAY=SHARING & CARING! BUY THE BOOK, LOSE THE BOOK
@AutoriteitCM warns educational publishers to stop bundling books with digital licences that expire after a year, rendering the books worthless.
🔗 KR21’s @mzeinstra discusses the case: knowledgerights21.org/news-s…
#education
10 FINDINGS POLICYMAKERS SHOULD READ BEFORE PROPOSING RESEARCH RIGHTS REFORM
Independent EU-commissioned evidence finds the more ambitious the reform, the greater the gains for European research.
🔗 What stood out, and what it leaves open: knowledgerights21.org/news-s…
#Science4EU
21 OCT-11H CEST | ONE WEEK LEFT: 1ST EUROPEAN #EBOOKS & #ELENDING COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
Topic: e-Lending systems in Europe
Come for the expert perspectives, stay to set the agenda for what comes next.
🔗 Details & Registration: kr21.info/ebooks-cop-meeting…
#eBookSOS #libraries
THE PRICE OF LEAVING A SECONDARY PUBLICATION RIGHT OUT OF THE ERA ACT
France alone: ~170m EUR a year in Article Processing Charges (APCs) by 2030.
Across the EU: over a billion.
Include a Secondary Publication Right in the #ERAact.
🔗 knowledgerights21.org/news-s…
#Science4EU
J-2 | 14 OCTOBRE (16H) - ACCÈS REFUSÉ ? LE DROIT D'AUTEUR FACE AUX BIBLIOTHÈQUES NUMÉRIQUES
KR21 France explore la place des œuvres protégées dans les collections numériques.
Un panel avec @laBnF, @_BAnQ et d’autres intervenant·es.
🔗 kr21.info/kr21-france-14oct2…
#bibliotheques
FRIDAY=SHARING & CARING!
21 OCT | GET READY FOR THE 1ST MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN #EBOOKS & #ELENDING COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
Recommended read: KR21’s #LetLibrariesBeLibraries Action Plan
🔗 knowledgerights21.org/librar…
🔗 Details & Registration: kr21.info/ebooks-cop-meeting…
#eBookSOS