ResearchProfessional News: UK universities are close to sealing an open-access deal with the academic publisher Elsevier, following protracted negotiations on the replacement of the UK’s largest subscription agreement. On 24 February, a spokesperson for the higher...
Helen Dobson, writing for Jisc’s blog on the UK consortium’s new diamond OA funding scheme: Jisc will publish a call directed to mission-based and diamond publishers to submit an application providing detailed information about their journal/initiative and...
The Guardian: Scientists working with one of the world’s largest climate research publishers say they’re increasingly alarmed that the company works with the fossil fuel industry to help increase oil and gas drilling, the Guardian can reveal. For more than a decade,...
Demmy Verbeke and Laura Mesotten, writing in UKSG Insights on the KU Leuven Fund for Fair OA: The current push for OA risks putting so much strain on library budgets that there is no money left to foster alternative approaches to scholarly communication beyond the...
Chris Hartgerink, writing about the new, modular publishing platform ResearchEquals.com, which launched today: We need to work to keep open access accessible to the Global Majority. We join the efforts for new business models to that end. Recent innovations such as...
