open access

The Biden administration will by 2026 require that all publicly funded work be deposited in designated repositories immediately on publication.

Some researchers have decided to provide their products without financial compensation or expectations of authorship on resulting papers, prompting a flurry of new work.

A large coalition of colleges and universities aims to change hiring, promotion, and tenure practices to reward collaboration.

Zhangfeng Hu will be unable to submit manuscripts for three years after having violated the journal’s policy about making study materials available to other scientists.

The agreement comes two years after the university system cut ties with the publisher after failing to come to an agreement.

Responses collected from around 25,000 academics reveal that 20 percent couldn’t do their work at all in the spring, but most had found ways to keep their research going.

Academics will soon be able to make articles freely available in Nature-branded journals for €9,500—with a discounted option available under a pilot program that provides review, but no guarantee of acceptance.

While some academics have called for compensation for assessing other scientists’ work, publishers haven’t warmed to the idea.

The agreement will enable authors at eligible German institutes to publish an estimated 400 open-access papers each year in Springer Nature journals from the Nature line of titles.

We present an economic plan for a collective sharing of scientific knowledge on the pandemic.

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.