Plan S releases revised guidelines; many publishers remain unconvinced Following its recent feedback exercise, which received more than 600 responses, cOAlition S has released revised guidance on the implementation of ... Read more

More ‘read and publish’ deals for Cambridge and De Gruyter Cambridge University Press has concluded three more ‘read and publish’ deals – each lasting three years – in the past ... Read more

Debate over Plan S continues Plan S continues to dominate discussion in the world of scholarly publishing and was one of the key themes at last week’s Research and Scholarly ... Read more

Stakeholders share feedback on Plan S proposals The deadline for feedback on the radical proposals put forward by the cOALition S consortium of research funders has passed, with stakeholders from ... Read more

PLOS announces 2017 financial overview PLOS has released its financial overview for 2017, with figures showing a fall in income from $38.2m to $36.8m, due to a decline in publishing ... Read more

Busy month for SAGE Publishing It’s been a busy month for SAGE, which has invested in Thusly, a technology start-up creating research tools for big data analysis of document archives, ... Read more

Plan S continues to make waves Plan S, the open access initiative launched in September by a coalition of eleven European organisations funding research, has been buoyed by the announcement ... Read more

STM Conference This year’s STM conference at Frankfurt marked the organisation’s fiftieth anniversary. The keynote speaker was new Springer Nature CEO Daniel Ropers, who expressed concerns at publishers being seen ... Read more

Battle over Plan S? cOAlition S, an alliance of eleven national research funding organisations supported by both the European Commission and the European Research Council, has announced its intentions to ... Read more