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.

Scientists are working to maximize the benefits and minimize the costs of sharing.

A funder-driven push for freely accessible scholarly literature has divided the scientific community.

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.

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

Despite some difficult negotiations, academic institutions in the Netherlands have been securing subscriptions that combine publishing and reading into one fee.

More than 2,000 signatories urge a national consortium of French academic institutions to refuse an increase in journal subscription fees.

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