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Making scientific research free to read could bolster collaboration and research on solving problems such as pandemics, climate change and more. The UN has taken a step towards realising this goal. Read more »

We need to guarantee that the benefits of sciences are shared between scientists and the general public, without restriction. Peru and Brazil are leading the way. Read more »

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. Read more »

If we want real public understanding of new findings, we must also open up peer review. Read more »

Advanced techniques allowed our research team to build an open database of billions of individual trees and challenge some common perceptions about vegetation in arid and semi-arid zones. Read more »

In countries such as Indonesia, politicised science can obscure real research. Open science has the potential to help filter out sketchy research and protect the public’s interests. Read more »

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

By looking at the evolving history of the open government data movement, scientists can see both limitations to current approaches and identify ways to move forward from them. Read more »

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. Read more »

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

All modern scientists should share ownership of their knowledge and research. Read more »

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

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. Read more »

Individually, we are all helpless in the face of the coronavirus crisis. A global collaborative boom is changing the way science is done. Read more »

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

But there are also risks to open science. Read more »

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. Read more »

Publishers' efforts to reduce "leakage," funder-driven open-access schemes, the growth of academic publishing in China, and more. Read 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. Read more »

20 years ago, who could predict how much more researchers would know today about the human past – let alone what they could learn from a thimble of dirt, a scrape of dental plaque, or satellites in space. Read more »

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. Read more »

The publishing giant will likely survive the latest boycott by scientists. An overhaul is needed to make science publishing fair and open. Read more »

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

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

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. Read more »

In a new research study, more than 900 people from around the world explain the challenges and benefits of microdosing LSD and psilocybin-containing mushrooms. Read more »

Thomas Durcan's lab is growing 3D mini-brains in the search for a cure for Parkinson's disease. Over the next year he is giving all his lab's protocols, methods and results away. Read more »

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. Read more »

Under a two-year pilot agreement, articles published by Norwegian academics will be free to read in almost all of the publisher's journals. Read more »

The divergent strategies of scholarly publishers to forge licensing agreements with libraries are yielding different results. Read more »

The publisher failed to meet requests for better access to research, a consortium of Norwegian institutions says. Read more »

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

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. Read more »

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. Read more »

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

From disastrous scientific setbacks to the upending of scientific dogma and the end of a 40-year search for a protein Read more »

The move is a show of support for Project DEAL and the open-access movement. Read more »

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

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. Read more »

YODA, a program facilitated by Yale University researchers, has successfully distributed clinical trial records from Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic to external researchers since 2013. Read more »

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust agree not to cover the fees that some hybrid open-access journals charge authors to make their work freely available. Read more »

According to new research, individuals who take small regular doses of psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin mushrooms score higher on mental health, well-being and creativity. Read more »

As the American Chemical Society and Elsevier move litigation forward, other academic publishers have opted to collaborate with the academic network platform instead. Read more »

To know the real promise of psychedelic substances like LSD, mushrooms and MDMA, researchers must embrace the principles and practise of 'open science.' Read more »

Research funding agencies in Europe will require grantees' papers to be free to read when they are available online. Read more »

The founding editor-in-chief will redirect his focus to a Parkinson's organization. Read more »

Consortia in both countries are pushing for open-access subscriptions with the publisher. Read more »

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

A consortium of institutions will not renew its contract with the publisher that ends in June, following the lead of organizations in other countries. Read more »

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