An analysis of data from nearly 150 journals across scientific disciplines finds that, if anything, manuscripts authored by women are treated more favorably than those submitted by men.

The study, published in a peer-reviewed journal, has attracted widespread derision from researchers.

Transgender scientists are seeing some success in advocating for standards that allow authors to change their names on previous work.

Publishers’ efforts to reduce “leakage,” funder-driven open-access schemes, the growth of academic publishing in China, and more.

Licensing negotiations between libraries and publishers continued, a radical open-access plan made changes, and the flaws of some publishing tools and techniques came to light.

The scholarly publisher has announced several new licensing agreements in both Europe and the US—but some major academic groups are still without contracts and access to journals.

The publishing giant will likely survive the latest boycott by scientists. An overhaul is needed to make science publishing fair and open.

More than 30 professors will no longer serve on editorial boards of the journals unless Elsevier and the University of California can reach a contract.

The university and the publisher have been trying to forge a new licensing agreement for the last year.

Under a two-year pilot agreement, articles published by Norwegian academics will be free to read in almost all of the publisher’s journals.

The divergent strategies of scholarly publishers to forge licensing agreements with libraries are yielding different results.

The publisher failed to meet requests for better access to research, a consortium of Norwegian institutions says.

After negotiating for eight months, the University of California becomes one of the first research institutions in the US to stop paying for access to the publisher’s journals.

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 move is a show of support for Project DEAL and the open-access movement.

The UC system is pushing to change the subscription model and accelerate open access, but if there’s no contract agreement by December 31, faculty and students lose access altogether.

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

Consortia in both countries are pushing for open-access subscriptions with the publisher.

A growing number of libraries are unbundling their subscriptions to the full suite of publishers’ journals, opting for limited titles to save on costs.