Over the last 2 years more than 150 German libraries, universities, and research institutes have formed a united front trying to force academic publishers into a new way of doing business.

The government’s goal is that all pubclicly funded Norwegian research articles should be made openly available by 2024, and the government has established guidelines and measures for open access to research articles.

In the quest to make scientific publications free to read and free to publish, the million-dollar question is: how can it be sustainable?

Oxford researchers are advised that the University’s Research Committee has approved a revised policy for allocating funds from the RCUK Open Access block grant.

Consortium seeks country-wide licence for journals at reduced prices.

German institutions and the publishing giant have still failed to agree a new deal. Could this become permanent?

Analysis finds website can fulfill 99% of requests for scholarly papers

A small change would open up a whole new class of works for which publishers could demand payment for the use of small snippets, apparently including works that the author had released under an open access license.

These institutions join around 60 others that hope to put increasing pressure on the publishing giant in ongoing negotiations for a new nationwide licensing agreement.

Group will explore opportunities to disseminate MIT knowledge as widely as possible.

Younger researchers may be particularly deterred by the fees associated with gold open access.

Stanford professor says $15 million lawsuit victory will not engender sympathy for publishing giant

Carlos Moedas suggested a "decision" to create the platform had already been made.

Bastian Greshake has analysed the full Sci-Hub corpus and found that articles are being downloaded from all over the world, more recently published papers are among the most requested, and there is a marked overrepresentation of requested articles from journals publishing on chemistry.