Open repositories are a tool for climate action. By increasing the number of climate research papers openly available in repositories, EIFL, COAR (the Confederation of Open Access Repositories) and Creative Commons are collectively taking action to help address the climate crisis.  

Over 3,500 of the most-cited climate change articles have been published in the last five years as closed access; however, these articles can be made openly available in repositories because the authors retained their rights and/or have the right to deposit their accepted manuscripts. 

On 22 October 2024, COAR, Creative Commons, EIFL, and our regional, national, and institutional partners are launching a global effort to make this critical knowledge available to the world. 

EIFL will collaborate with our national partner library consortia on this campaign. 

EIFL and COAR will also host three webinars for repository managers to take ther campaign forward in Asia (8 November), Europe and Africa (12 November) and North and South America (13 November).

More about the Paper Pledge for the Planet campaign.