Below is a collection of links to sites sharing reports, opinions, and recommendations on open access. Last updated January 2024.
2024
- The CNRS has unsubscribed from the Scopus publications database (January 2024)
- Episciences, open access overlay journals: “A Diamond Open Access scientific publishing platform covering all disciplines”
2023
- Who should pay for open-access publishing? APC alternatives emerge, by Katharine Sanderson (November 2023)
- German science organizations strike open-access deal with Elsevier: Negotiators reach an agreement after more than 5 years of on-and-off talks, by Gretchen Vogel (September 2023)
- The Corporate Capture of Open Access Publishing, by Sarah Kember and Amy Brand (August 2023)
- EU council’s ‘no pay’ publishing model draws mixed response: Some academics have welcomed the proposed open-access plans. But publishing-industry representatives warn they are unrealistic and lack detail, by Katharine Sanderson (June 2023)
- Fast-growing open-access journals stripped of coveted impact factors: Web of Science delists some 50 journals, including one of the world’s largest, by Jeffrey Brainard (March 2023)
- Strife at eLife: inside a journal’s quest to upend science publishing: Editors threaten to resign over ‘no-reject’ model that others see as the future of research journals, by Alison Abbott (March 2023)
2022
- Journal declares an end to accepting or rejecting papers, by Jeffrey Brainard (October 2022)
- Public access is not equal access, by Sudip Parikh, Shirley M. Malcom, and Bill Moran (September 2022)
- White House requires immediate public access to all U.S.-funded research papers by 2025, by Jeffrey Brainard & Jocelyn Kaiser (August 2022)
2021
- Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free to all, by Cathleen O’Grady (August 2021)
- Fifteen journals to outsource peer-review decisions, by Cathleen O’Grady (April 2021)
- California universities and Elsevier make up, ink big open-access deal, by Jeffrey Brainard (March 2021)
- Science family of journals announces change to open-access policy, by Richard Van Noorden (January 2021)
- A new mandate highlights costs, benefits of making all scientific articles free to read, by Jeffrey Brainard (January 2021)
2020
- In biology publishing shakeup, eLife will require submissions to be posted as preprints, by Lila Guterman (December 2020)
- Nature family of journals inks first open-access deal with an institution, by Jeffrey Brainard (October 2020)
- New PLOS pricing test could signal end of scientists paying to publish free papers, by Jeffrey Brainard (October 2020)
- HHMI, one of the largest research philanthropies, will require immediate open access to papers, by Jeffrey Brainard (October 2020)
- Huge open-access journal deal inked by University of California and Springer Nature, by Jeffrey Brainard (June 2020)
- Will the pandemic permanently alter scientific publishing? by Ewen Callaway (June 2020)
- Open-access science funders announce price transparency rules for publishers, by Nicholas Wallace (May 2020)
- In pursuit of open science, open access is not enough, by Claudio Aspesi, Amy Brand (May 2020)
- Publishers roll out alternative routes to open access, by Jeffrey Brainard (March 2020)
2019
- Elsevier deal with France disappoints open-access advocates, by Tania Rabesandratana (December 2019)
- Elsevier signs first open-access deal in the United States, by Science News Staff (November 2019)
- More than 700 German research institutions strike open-access deal with Springer Nature, by Gretchen Vogel (August 2019)
- Open access takes root at National Cancer Institute, by Jocelyn Kaiser (August 2019)
- Radical open-access plan delayed a year as revised effort seeks more support, by Tania Rabesandratana (May 2019)
- To meet the ‘Plan S’ open-access mandate, journals mull setting papers free at publication, by Jeffrey Brainard (May 2019)
- Huge US university cancels subscription with Elsevier, by Nisha Gaind (February 2019)
- University of California boycotts publishing giant Elsevier over journal costs and open access, by Alex Fox, Jeffrey Brainard (February 2019)
- Deal reveals what scientists in Germany are paying for open access, by Kai Kupferschmidt (February 2019)
- Scientific societies worry about threat from Plan S, by Jeffrey Brainard (January 2019)
- Groundbreaking deal makes large number of German studies free to public, by Kai Kupferschmidt (January 2019)
- Will the world embrace Plan S, the radical proposal to mandate open access to science papers? by Tania Rabesandratana (January 2019)
2018
- European funders detail their open-access plan, by Tania Rabesandratana (November 2018)
- Open-access plan draws online protest, by Tania Rabesandratana (November 2018)
- In win for open access, two major funders won’t cover publishing in hybrid journals, by Erik Stokstad (November 2018)
- European funders seek to end reign of paywalled journals, by Martin Enserink (September 2018)
- Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions, by Holly Else (September 2018)
- A toolkit for data transparency takes shape: A simple software toolset can help to ease the pain of reproducing computational analyses, by Jeffrey M. Perkel (August 2018)
2017
- Potential predatory and legitimate biomedical journals: can you tell the difference? A cross-sectional comparison, by Larissa Shamseer, David Moher, Onyi Maduekwe, Lucy Turner, Virginia Barbour, Rebecca Burch, Jocalyn Clark, James Galipeau, Jason Roberts and Beverley J. Shea, BMC Medicine (March 2017)
2016
- U.K. research charity will self-publish results from its grantees, news article in Science by J. Bohannon (July 2016)
- In dramatic statement, European leaders call for ‘immediate’ open access to all scientific papers by 2020, news article in Science by M. Enserink (May 2016)
- Council of the European Union Conclusions on the Transition Towards an Open Science System (May 2016)
- E.U. urged to free all scientific papers by 2020, news article in Science by M. Enserink (April 2016)
- Amsterdam Call for Action on Open Science (April 2016)
- New York Times Op-ed: Should All Research Papers be Free? by K. Murphy (March 2016)
- Montreal institute going ‘open’ to accelerate science, news article in Science by B. Owens (January 2016)
- Dutch lead European push to flip journals to open access, news article in Nature by D. Butler (January 2016)
- Open journals that piggyback on arXiv gather momentum, news article in Nature by E. Gibney (January 2016)
2015
- Results of Nature Publishing Group’s ReadCube experiment (December 2015)
- Open access agreement between Elsevier and Dutch universities (December 2015)
- First independent review of the Research Council UK (RCUK) Open Access Policy (March 2015)
- Press release
- Report (PDF)
- The National Science Foundation publishes Today’s Data, Tomorrow’s Discoveries, a plan for public access to research funded by NSF programs (March 2015).
- Press release
- Science Insider article on the topic, which also summarizes open access policies adopted by other US federal science agencies.
- An opinion piece summarizing some of the issues related to open access (February 2015)
2014
- The Government of India publishes an open access policy for research funded by its Departments of Biotechnology and Science & Technology (December 2014)
- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation adopts an open access policy (November 2014)
- PAGES, DOE’s Public Access Gateway for Energy & Science, is available in beta-version (August 2014)
- U.S. Department of Energy Increases Access to Results of DOE-funded Scientific Research (August 2014)
- EDP survey on attitudes of learned societies towards open access (May 2014)
- Recommendations on open access (March 2014) from the European Astronomical Society
2013
- A press release (December 2013) from the Association of American Publishers on a study describing the half-life of scholarly articles by discipline
- A press release (December 2013) on SCOAP3 from the CERN press office
- Managing the Transition to Open Access Publication (November 2013), a statement from the European Physical Society
- Open access to research publications reaching ‘tipping point’ (August 2013), a press release from Europa
- Principles for the Transition to Open Access to Research Publications (April 2013), a position statement by Science Europe‘s Working Group on Open Access to Scientific Publications
- Open access in the UK and what it means for scientific research (March 2013), from the Institute of Physics (IOP)
- Open access: The true cost of science publishing (March 2013), a news article published in the journal Nature
- Director Holdren’s policy on Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research (February 2013)
2008
- NIH Public Access Policy (January 2008)
2004
- Can Open Access be viable? The Institute of Physics’ experience (September 2004), an article by John Haynes, Assistant Director, Journals Business Development, IOP Publishing Ltd
- Access to the literature: the debate continues (September 2004), a collection of articles in the journal Nature