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.

Hear this month’s Scientist to Watch, Prachee Avasthi, describe the preprint journal review club she started at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

The Stanford University researcher discusses a new study on measures such as data sharing and funding disclosures.

The original work found that an anti-malaria drug or the neurotransmitter GABA could increase the number of insulin-producing pancreatic cells in mice.

The Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology initially aimed to replicate the results of 50 high-impact research articles.