science publishing, policy

Zhangfeng Hu will be unable to submit manuscripts for three years after having violated the journal’s policy about making study materials available to other scientists.

New papers from a cancer journal once named as a possibly predatory publication will no longer appear in the widely used research database.

A new report lauds the UK government’s commitment to open access, but calls its early devotion to the gold model a “mistake.”

A new initiative in the mathematics research community is gearing up to do the work traditionally organized by a publisher.

The National Institutes of Health will get tough on grantees who fail to comply with its open-access funding rule.

In protest against high-priced journal packages, the library at SUNY Potsdam will end its subscription to American Chemical Society online journal package.

The UK government releases its recommendation that open access be “the main vehicle for the publication of research,” though it warns of the costs that could entail.

A petition asking for online, readable publication of all government-funded research is making its way to the White House.

Major pharmaceutical companies have agreed to a handful of recommendations aimed at increasing the transparency of clinical trials they fund.

The United Kingdom government hatches a plan to provide free public access to government-funded research.

The Federal Research Public Access Act faces stiff opposition from the Association American of Publishers.

Legislators have dropped the Research Works Act, which would have nixed policies that require federally funded research findings to be deposited in public databases.

The publishing giant withdraws its support of the Research Works Act, which would eliminate open-access requirements on federally funded work.

New legislation would make all federally funded research publicly available within 6 months of publication.

A boycott of the publishing giant swells, but is the criticism warranted?

Japanese virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka, who led one of the recent studies on avian flu transmissibility, says that type of research is necessary.