Roberto Bolli was editor of the American Heart Association’s journal until last week, after anti-gay comments he sent to the Louisville Ballet became public.

The three-year contract, in which all articles will be published as open access in exchange for an annual fee for journal subscriptions, is a triumph for Project DEAL.

The journal’s “portable peer review” seeks to save time for editors and researchers.

A funder-driven push for freely accessible scholarly literature has divided the scientific community.

As the American Chemical Society and Elsevier move litigation forward, other academic publishers have opted to collaborate with the academic network platform instead.

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.