Sheffield, Lancaster and Surrey join Essex, Kent and Sussex in walking away from a proposed three-year deal with world’s ...

Academia.edu wants to help researchers share their scientific papers freely. But at least one publisher of academic journals has more, well, nuanced thoughts on access to the research — and it’s ...

After a tense two-year stalemate, Elsevier and the University of California this week announced they have struck a groundbreaking open access agreement. Meanwhile, over the last two years UC officials ...

This post was updated Sept. 2 at 11:18 p.m. About 30 University of California faculty members suspended their editorial services for Elsevier’s journals starting Aug. 7 to protest the publisher’s ...