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
Researchers want to improve access to research but remain largely unaware of initiatives and services established to increase open access (OA)
Cambridge University Press is launching a crowdfunding campaign to publish a book under the open access model
Jisc and the Microbiology Society have announced a two-year pilot transitional open access (OA) agreement
Springer Nature has signed a memorandum of understanding that it says will set the scene for the ‘world’s most comprehensive open access agreement’
Sarah Greaves
Open access publisher Hindawi has updated its journals’ editorial models – by introducing more editors in order to fully serve their communities
Achieving change forces us to embrace new initiatives that renew our progress, writes Daniel Hook
Adrian Stanley reflects on his time in the industry and as president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing
Anna Seiffert
Anna Seiffert reflects on the need to communicate the collection’s budget to admin and faculty
Haseeb Md. Irfanullah looks at the role for Bangladesh libraries in driving the country's evolution
Librarians, researchers, funders, publishers and other vendors came together in a spirit of cooperation for the third CISPC meeting in November
