MIT – the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – has ended negotiations with the publisher Elsevier for a new journals contract
Approach means Plan S-funded authors will be able to continue to submit research to these publications
The pandemic has demonstrated the importance of open access and open science, writes Rossana Morriello
F1000 Research has been awarded a contract to set up and manage an open access publishing platform for the European Commission as a service for Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe beneficiaries
The open-access movement is calling into question business models in scholarly publishing, writes Sami Benchekroun
Jisc has announced its support for the global initiative ‘Subscribe to Open’ developed by the non-profit publisher Annual Reviews
Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
An independent report aiming to improve the transparency of open access (OA) prices and services is calling for a customer-centric, collaborative and pragmatic approach to the issue
A group of research institutions in the Netherlands have reached an agreement with Elsevier that is being hailed as a 'major breakthrough for open science'
Stephen Inchcoombe
Springer Nature has issued an appeal to cOAlition S not to 'lose the opportunity' that it says its Transformative Journals offer to accelerate the move to open access
Five UK-based society publishers have signed pilot transitional open access (OA) agreements with the not-for-profit organisation Jisc
Martijn Roelandse
It might be fair to say we have entered the era of irreproducible science, write Martijn Roelandse and Anita Bandrowski
Heather Staines
The new non-profit Knowledge Futures Group offers institutions a valuable scholarly communications resource, writes Heather Staines
From deposits to discovery, Rebecca Pool looks at the long and winding journey of the institutional repository
A UK-based university librarian, who has chosen to remain anonymous, has spoken out about ‘gobsmacking’ prices for some ebooks
Daniel Keirs considers open science from the perspective of a physics publisher, including some of the steps needed to accelerate progress
Matt McKay
Papers related to the pandemic have been downloaded more than 150 million times, writes Matt McKay
Nandita Quaderi
Nandita Quaderi, editor-in-chief of the Web of Science at Clarivate, explains what editorial integrity means for citation data and journal evaluation
Alex Freeman
Documentary-maker Alex Freeman never imagined she would create a tool that could overhaul the structure of academic publishing, writes Faye Holst
