open access

A new open-access African science journal is to debut later this year, according to the Guardian.

German research institutes are still negotiating with academic publisher Elsevier over cost and open-access polices, Nature News reports.

German universities and the academic publisher Elsevier continue to negotiate over subscriptions and open access, Nature News reports.

The movement to improve reproducibility in science could be used against the field, Ed Yong writes at the Atlantic.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation embarks on an open-access publishing path.

Jeffrey Beall's list of predatory publishers is no longer at Scholarly OA, Inside Higher Ed reports.

ScienceInsider says a consortium of German institutions and the publisher Elsevier are still working out a deal for journal access.

A professor and American Physical Society public affairs director argues at The Hill that open-access publishing only shifts the cost on to researchers.

The Wellcome Trust, the Max Planck Society, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute will continue to support the open-access journal eLife, according to Nature News.