Open Access Library
We are rebuilding our open access library: a searchable collection of freely accessible peer-reviewed papers, to be found, saved and revisited without a subscription or an institutional login.
Read moreAmsterdam · Established 2013
Knowledge shouldn’t be locked away.
United Academics Foundation is a Dutch non-profit working to close the gap between science and society. We believe research that the public paid for should be research the public can read.
The problem
Most research is publicly funded, and privately locked.
Universities, tax-funded institutes and public grants pay for the work. The results then disappear behind subscription paywalls that few individuals — and many institutions in lower-income countries — can afford. Knowledge that was meant to circulate stops moving.
How can something as important as knowledge be trapped into a billion dollar business?
What we do
Three ways we keep science open.
United Academics Magazine
Writers turn peer-reviewed studies into readable articles — from the human body and mind to space and physics — so that research reaches people outside the field it came from.
Read moreAdvocacy for open access
We argue the case for unrestricted access to scientific knowledge, and work with researchers and institutions on publishing models that do not depend on paywalls.
Read moreGet in touch
Work with us.
We are a small foundation with an international, remote team. If you are a researcher, writer, institution or funder who thinks knowledge should move freely, we would like to hear from you.