In October, Elsevier and ACS filed a new US copyright infringement lawsuit against ResearchGate [complaint]. Like the German ResearchGate lawsuit I wrote about last year, the basic premise of the suit is the same. This is how Elsevier and ACS describe ResearchGate's activities in the American lawsuit: In egregious violation of copyright law, ResearchGate provides … Continue reading ACS v. ResearchGate - 3,143 articles and a few lessons about their authors   →

The Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation join Plan S initiative.

The Wellcome Trust has also announced how it will implement the plan, which could provide a blueprint for others.

The Swedish ISP Bahnhof has a strong historic commitment to free speech, so when the notoriously corrupt science publishing giant Elsevier sought to force the ISP to censor connections to the open access site Sci-Hub, the ISP went to court to resist the order.

The first large-scale analysis of compliance with open-access rules reveals that up to one-third of articles are not free to read.

Governor Jerry Brown recently signed A.B. 2192, a law requiring that all peer-reviewed, scientific research funded by the state of California be made available to the public no later than one year after publication.

Publicly funded research output should neither be hidden behind paywalls nor be a 'pay-to-publish' game. This is one of the core tenets of the Position Statement titled 'Opportunities and Challenges for Implementing Plan S - The View of Young Academies', which is the result of discussions among several European young academies and the Global Young.

An interview with Robert-Jan Smits, with preface Robert-Jan Smits.

It has never been so easy to obtain grants for open access publications from the SNSF. Researchers can now apply for them on the mySNF online platform – even after the project has ended.

Robert-Jan Smits takes Plan S to the White House and says he is in the United States for ‘business not chit-chat’.

Nation’s funder is the first to join Plan S - which aims to make all scientific works free to read on publication - since the effort was announced.

The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers, which represents the organisations most directly affected financially, was one voice of caution, saying it is "vital" that researchers have the freedom to publish where they choose.

Major European countries are mandating that publicly-funded research should appear only in open-access journals.

Bold move is intended to trigger open-access tipping point.

Paywall, a documentary about the open-access movement, makes its debut and will be available online.

Eleven research funders in Europe announce ‘Plan S’ to make all scientific works free to read as soon as they are published.

In this Perspective, a group of national funders, joined by the European Commission and the European Research Council, announce plans to make Open Access publishing mandatory for recipients of their agencies' research funding.

The 11 national research funding organisations that form cOAlition S have agreed to implement the 10 principles of Plan S in a coordinated way, together with the European Commission including the ERC. Other research funders from across the world, both public and private, are invited to join cOAlition S.