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

In response to concerns from the research and publishing communities, the European group pushes back the deadline for its full and immediate open-access mandate to 2021.

A consortium of institutions will not renew its contract with the publisher that ends in June, following the lead of organizations in other countries.

Negotiations between the publisher and a national consortium of academic institutions have reached a stalemate.

With multiple applications in biomedicine, the antibodies can now be made quickly, cheaply, and without the need for an alpaca or one of its relatives.

Economists explore the wheelings and dealings of universities and publishers during largely secret negotiations regarding access to scientific journals.

Two research groups have developed a database of human gene knockouts generated from the new genome editing technology.  

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

Much of Charles Darwin’s personal library–both his books and what he wrote within them--is now available online.