Research funding agencies in Europe will require grantees’ papers to be free to read when they are available online.

Despite some difficult negotiations, academic institutions in the Netherlands have been securing subscriptions that combine publishing and reading into one fee.

The watchdog website FDAAA TrialsTracker names and shames human studies that breach the FDA’s requirements for reporting results.

Scholars have formed a peer-review boycott to encourage journals to take a firm stance against requests to cull sensitive articles.

A few months after the American Chemical Society won its lawsuit against the pirate site, the game of virtual whack-a-mole continues.

Elizabeth Blackburn announced in December that she would step down from the role following gender discrimination lawsuits brought by faculty.

A consortium of 300 universities and college libraries had taken a strong stance against the publishing giant’s price hikes. 

In a gender discrmination lawsuit against the Salk Institute, a female scientist alleges that biologist Inder Verma was dismissive of his female colleagues. 

Legal methods to retrieve paywalled articles for free are on the rise, but better self-archiving practices could help improve accessibility.