Open Society Foundations

The OAPEN Foundation and the Max Planck Society have announced a partnership to build a dedicated collection of open access books funded by the Max Planck Digital Library. The initiative will gather openly available scholarly books supported by the society's funding, expanding access to research outputs beyond journal articles. The announcement, shared by the Max Planck Digital Library, is being circulated among open science and research communities interested in growing open access monograph infrastructure.

The OAPEN Foundation has announced a new partnership with the Max Planck Society to build a dedicated collection of open access books. The collection will be funded by more than 80 Max Planck Institutes and research units, making scholarly publications in fields such as physics freely available to readers worldwide. The move is being discussed as a significant step for open access publishing and digital humanities scholarship.

The Open Society Foundations has published a tribute to Emma Bonino, the Italian politician and longtime human rights campaigner, calling it a tribute to a radical. Bonino is known for her work on abortion rights, refugee protection and civil liberties, and for serving as Italy's foreign minister and as a European Commissioner. The piece frames her uncompromising activism as a model for rights defenders.