A PhD thesis is the result of many years of hard work, and the author generally hopes it will be the start of a successful academic career. But quite often, it is only read by the authors themselves and their supervisors. Who should be allowed to access it, and how? Our colleague Catherine Brendow discusses the main reasons why PhD students are generally reluctant to make their thesis accessible.

Swiss universities have signed Read & Publish agreements with several large academic publishers. These agreements enable researchers to publish open access in renowned journals without paying APCs (Article Processing Charges). Our open access specialist Catherine Brendow explains what they are, how they work, and how Geneva Graduate Institute researchers can benefit from them.

Sometimes the articles you find through your online searches are locked behind paywalls. In this case, it might be useful to know whether open access versions of these papers exist and how to find them.

Why should you create and use an ORCID profile? An explainer on how this connects you to the open science ecosystem.

Most funders include Open Access mandates in their contractual conditions. Why are they doing this, and what can grantees do to comply with these mandates? OA specialist Catherine Brendow explains.

For the third time, the Library will celebrate International Open Access Week with various events and exhibitions set up by our open science Librarians Catherine Brendow and Guillaume Pasquier. The week's theme this year is "Who owns our knowledge?". Read to learn more!

Iman, an honest man, is appointed as an investigator for the Tehran Revolutionary Courts. This should delight his wife and two daughters. However, following the death of Mahsa Amini—arrested by the police for wearing an inappropriate headscarf—riots erupt in the capital. This new job will finally get them the four-room apartment they've been waiting for, the dishwasher they've been dreaming of, and a few rungs up the social ladder.

Give peace a chance! Many people would agree with this sentence, especially those living in places like Gaza or Kyiv. Geneva has claimed to be the capital of peace for more than a century. Our Institute is located in the Maison de la Paix and hosts a specialised research centre - no wonder that peace in all its dimensions is a key theme in our collections.

Some of the titles in our collection are or were banned or challenged in a variety of countries by governments, religious authorities, or other interest groups. Dictatorships come to mind, of cours…

At the end of the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama believed that Western liberal democracy would become the universal form of government. However, the times they are a-changin, and today, it seems that history is repeating itself as a farce, with the 2020s bearing a striking resemblance to the 1930s. It's not a surprise, then, that democracy has become a key topic in our collection.

In this issue, we feature an editorial by Amy Brand, Director at MIT Press, who shares her insights on how the unchecked use of published research in AI may threaten the integrity, sustainability, and future of scientific publishing.

The Data Rescue Project (DRP) is excited to announce the launch of the DRP Portal—a milestone in our collective effort to protect and preserve at-risk public information. As of June 2025, DRP voluntee...

The Anti-Autocracy Handbook is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism. It tries to provide guidance to ...

An event organised by the research group Publics & Power at the Department of Public Administration and Policy, University of Birmingham

OpenAIRE EXPLORE now lets you auto-sync all your outputs, articles, data, software, straight to your ORCID record. Powered by the OpenAIRE Graph, it’s never been easier to build a full, open research ...

Since 2021, the Graduate Institute has agreements with major publishers that make it easier for researchers to publish open access (OA) articles. They have taken advantage of this opportunity and the proportion of OA articles has risen sharply. But a detailed analysis shows that the path taken may be unsustainable, and that most researchers are still neglecting simple ways to make their research accessible.

Financial actors often characterize finance as standardized and depersonalized. This narrative of standardized finance is commonly incorporated in critical finance scholarship which highlights the ...