In France, circa 100 research organizations close ranks by putting their journal subscription negotiations with Springer in abeyance, while insisting on Open Access policies and retaining access to its journal titles, as no agreement...
Though policymakers’ aims for transitioning to 100% Open Access for publicly funded research, such as in Switzerland, are laudable, their implementation in the coming years will not necessarily change the structure of the publishing...
While Canadian universities begin to make significant reductions in the number of scholarly journals to which they subscribe, large publishers, such as Elsevier, partner with scientific forums to provide at-cost publishing services for newly...
Behind the lawsuit-backed fines and media bruhaha around Sci-Hub, a controversial scientific article-sharing website operated by Kazakhstan-based Alexandra Elbakyan, stands the oligopolistic dynamics of the privatization of the scientific commons that have created few...
The case of Elsevier’s inconclusive subscription contract negotiations in Germany shows that it is the involvement of scientific communities and organisations, such as research universities and institutes, at all stages of article publishing and...
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