The agency joins a group of funders, cOAlition S, that supports making publications immediately available to the public for free.

Elsevier is now the only big scientific publisher that hasn’t struck a bargain with the German consortium of libraries and research institutions.

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.

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.

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.

A pilot project between the scholarly publisher and the academic networking platform launched last week.

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.