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
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
