Negotiations to reduce journal prices and promote open access are progressing slowly.

Understanding that vaccines are critical to public health and human-driven carbon emissions are un-terraforming the planet cannot be the purview of the one percent.

The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives awards a fellowship each year either to an unconventional technology expert early in his/her career, or a scholar or activist working at the intersection of humanities, social sciences and technology studies or technological solutions.

Legal methods to retrieve paywalled articles for free are on the rise, but better self-archiving practices could help improve accessibility. 

Text and data mining made easy with the allofPLOS project. Parsing tools together with the entire corpus of PLOS research articles for download.

After several high surplus years, a relatively small 2016 deficit will not sink PLOS.

'Free science'/pirate site operator 'working on solving DNS issue'

Books, like journals, reach far more people when they are published open access.

Michael Markie, Publisher at F1000, and Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research, Wellcome, highlight Wellcome Open Research’s achievements in its first year of publishing.

Venture will launch next year and seeks to strengthen continent’s science by helping academics share work more quickly.

Inspiration from influential European academics on Open Access.

The African Academy of Sciences, in partnership with F1000, is launching a publication platform, AAS Open Research.

Leading Swedish research funder joins nonprofit coalition committing about £2.72 mio. to eLife for a 4-year period beginning in 2018.

Scholars are planning an alternative site on which to network and share work.

In our institutions of higher education and our research labs, scholars first produce, then buy back, their own content. With the costs rising and access restricted, something's got to give.