Scholarly Publishing & Open Access
Open Access Policy & Agreements
Open-access mandates, transformative and read-and-publish agreements, and national OA negotiations. Covers what a given deal actually entitles authors to, which is frequently narrower than the announcement implies.
Coverage (21)
- ANID’s Open Access Mandate Goes Full-Scale in 2026
Chile’s ANID is extending its 2022 Open Access Policy across every instrument it funds in 2026, backed by a new EspacioCiencia repository service and renewed InES Ciencia Abierta capacity funding. Her…
- BMJ Study: AI Flags 9.9% of Cancer Papers
A BMJ study used a BERT classifier to screen 2.6 million cancer papers, flagging 9.9% as suspected paper-mill output — a scale manual review cannot match.…
- CAUL: How Australia and New Zealand’s University Libraries Landed Four 2026 Publisher Deals
CAUL reached in-principle 2026 open-access deals with Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, Wiley, and, after stalled November talks, Elsevier.…
- Equal-Contribution Authorship Is Rising Sharply, a 480,000-Paper Bibliometric Analysis Finds
A 2026 bibliometric analysis of roughly 480,000 PubMed and PMC records (2010-2024) finds equal-contribution tags climbing from a median of about 19% of articles in 2015 to over 30% in 2024, with China…
- swissuniversities Ends Springer Nature ‘No-Deal’ Gap
Switzerland had no national Springer Nature contract from Jan-June 2026. A new 2026-2029 Read & Publish deal, signed 10 June 2026, adds Gold OA.…
- Frontiers’ 122-Article Retraction: Inside a 35-Author Peer-Review Collusion Network
Frontiers retracted 122 articles after uncovering a ~35-author peer-review collusion network with undisclosed COI and citation manipulation.…
- Stolen Study, Sold as Authorship Slots on Telegram
A rejected economics paper was resold on Telegram as authorship slots for as little as $55, published, then retracted — a documented paper-mill tactic.…
- UK Universities Reject Elsevier’s New 2026 Deal: Kent, Essex, Sussex, Sheffield, Lancaster, Surrey Walk Away
Sheffield, Lancaster, Surrey, Essex, Kent, Sussex, and York declined Elsevier’s 2026 deal after Jisc’s national negotiation cycle, citing unsustainable costs.…
- Second Wave of 2026 Editorial-Board Resignations
A second 2026 wave: editors left journals at Springer Nature, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis over volume quotas, publisher control, and open-access disputes.…
- AI Peer Reviewers Gamed by Paper Laundering
ICML 2026 study: AI peer-review scores can be gamed by cosmetic ‘paper laundering’ rewrites, a risk authors warn could disadvantage novel work.…
- Springer Nature: China’s Gold OA Articles Now Draw 40% of Citations From Abroad
Springer Nature reports nearly 40% of citations to China’s 2022 gold OA articles now come from outside China, while a separate June 2026 announcement puts its EU open-access agreement coverage at 74% …
- Library ‘Big Deal’ Cancellations in 2026: Alberta, Delaware, and UBC Walk Away
In 2026, the University of Alberta, University of Delaware, and University of British Columbia each ended a major bundled journal subscription — with Springer Nature, Wiley, and Sage respectively — ci…
- GAO’s 2026 Report: Why Federal Agencies Are Struggling to Manage Public Access Compliance
GAO-26-107738 (May 2026) found 2 of 9 agencies lacked a public-access policy, reuse-rights gaps at NSF/USDA, and costs it warns could reach $1B/year.…
- ARC Open Access Policy Takes Effect: What Changed in 2026
ARC’s updated Open Access Policy took effect 1 July 2026: immediate OA for articles, a 12-month window for books, and new Indigenous research provisions.…
- Publishers, Turow Sue Google Over Gemini Training
Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and Scott Turow sued Google in SDNY, alleging Gemini trained on Google Books, Play Books, and Scholar without authorization.…
- Cross-Publisher Study: Elsevier Retracts Least, Reinstates Most Among Major Publishers
A new analysis of the Retraction Watch Database (1997-2026) finds Elsevier has the lowest normalized retraction rate and by far the highest reinstatement rate among ten major publishers — with a cavea…
- cOAlition S Strategy 2026-2030: A Shift Beyond Strict Plan S Mandates
cOAlition S’s Strategy 2026-2030 widens accepted open-access routes beyond Plan S’s original three, deferring rule changes to a 2026-2027 review.…
- Federal Public-Access Mandates Beyond NIH: 2026 Status
The 2022 Nelson Memo required every federal funder, not just NIH, to adopt zero-embargo public access by Dec. 2025 — here’s where agencies stand in 2026.…
- Reproducibility checklists at journal-submission time
Reproducibility checklists at submission have proliferated. A walkthrough of the major ones, what they catch, and what authors should do to satisfy them efficiently.…
- Diamond OA at the inflection: SciELO + Latindex + AmeliCA
Latin America’s Diamond OA infrastructures have run a successful model for two decades. What the rest of the world is finally learning from SciELO, Latindex, and AmeliCA.…
- Plan S and Diamond OA: where the open-access conversation is going
Plan S compliance, Diamond OA’s rise, S2O models, Read-and-Publish agreements, and the slow rebalancing of who pays for global scholarly publishing.…
