Nearly 100 academic journals, societies, institutes, and companies sign a commitment to make research and data on COVID-19 freely available, at least for the duration of the outbreak.

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.

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.