Textbooks aren't selling like they used to, but a new business model that has led to increased access to course materials and lower costs at some universities is beginning to take shape.

Publisher restores access as negotiations for a nationwide licence continue.

Coalition of scientists and research agencies argue for a one-stop shop server.

Toward the Unrestricted Publication of Research Output

Academia.edu, ResearchGate and private publishers all have something in common. 

Publications such as Nature and Science have policies that clash with the global health charity's open-access mandate.

Shouldn't all research be, first and foremost, accessible? Accessibility underpins equality.

As talks with the publisher stall, researchers in the country weigh whether they can cope without a deal

Scientists in Taiwan, Germany, and Peru will lose access to more than 12,000 scientific journals after institutions boycott the publishing giant for high prices and minimal open-access options.

In Germany, negotiations between scientific publishing company Elsevier and a consortium of hundreds of universities, technical schools, research institutes, and public libraries stalled in December 2016. As a result, more than 60 institutions have lost their online access to Elsevier's journals effective 1 January, although some can still access archived articles published before that date. The price of the journals is only part of the problem.

The world's largest scholarly journal, PLOS ONE, is seeing fewer and fewer researchers publish their work in it as the open-access publishing market evolves.

Libraries pursue alternative delivery routes after licence negotiations break down.