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
As the pressure to understand student success rises, Rebecca Pool asks: are libraries coming around to learning analytics?
The publishing industry has yet to fully acknowledge the need to create accessible stories to increase the uptake of OA articles, writes Sabine Louët
Tell us a little about your background and qualifications...
I certainly cannot say that being editor-in-chief of Nature was something I aimed to be as I was growing up.
Szabi Steiner
Szabi Steiner describes efforts to encourage data sharing at City, University of London
Jacqueline Thompson, Marcus Munafò and Ian Penton-Voak introduce a tool to help assess research quality
Sophie Goldsworthy and Ben Denne sift through 5,000 responses from HSS researchers
Jo McShea rounds up the 50th annual STM conference, held last week in Frankfurt
