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The links that follow track the literature that analyses trends in STM (Scientific Technical Medical) publishing, in particular the open access movement, as well as articles that track trends in the role of the health librarian.

Plan S

cOAlition S Releases Revised Implementation Guidance on Plan S Following Public Feedback Exercise - 31 May 2019

Rationale for the Revisions Made to the Plan S Principles and Implementation Guidance - 31 May 2019

Joint CAUL-AOASG Election Statement. Developing a strategic approach to open scholarship in Australia - May 2019

São Paulo Statement on Open Access - 1 May 2019

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Unsub: Part 2: Jason Priem on the past, present and future of Unsub and scholarly publishing - 20 April 2020

Unsub: Part 1: from big deals to real deals for academic publishing and libraries - 19 April 2021

Open Access: An Analysis of Publisher Copyright and Licensing Policies in Europe, 2020 - SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) Europe - 30 September 2020

Taking a Big Bite Out of the Big Deal - Scholarly Kitchen - 19 May 2020

Cancelling with the world’s largest scholarly publisher: lessons from the Swedish experience of having no access to Elsevier - UKSG Insights - 2020

To Bundle or Not to Bundle? That Is the Question - Scholarly Kitchen - 13 April 2020

Seeking Sustainability: Publishing Models for an Open Access Age – Scholarly Kitchen – 7 April 2020

'APCs in the Wild' - Whitepaper [article processing charges - paying to publish open access] - Springer Nature - 6 April 2020

Will the Future of Scholarly Communication Be Pluralistic and Democratic, or Monocultural and Authoritarian? - Scholarly Kitchen – 25 February 2020

A Plea for Fairer Sharing of the True Costs of Publication - Scholarly Kitchen - 4 February 2020

Reinventing Ourselves: New and Emerging Roles of Academic Librarians in Canadian Research-Intensive Universities - College and Research Libraries - 2020

Supporting academic research: understanding the challenges - Ex Libris

The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers launches ‘STM 2020 Research Data Year’ - a dedicated action plan to increase the number of journals with data policies, expand the number of journals depositing data links and grow the volume of citations to datasets - STM Publishing - 22 January 2020

Open Access Price Transparency - Information Power [reports on a project funded by Wellcome and UKRI on behalf of cOAlition S]

Check for publication integrity before misconduct - Nature - 7 January 2020

What to Expect in the Publishing World in 2020 - The Scientist - 31 December 2019

cOAlition S reaction to Springer Nature’s Open Letter on Transformative Journals - 17 December 2019

Alternative conditions needed in order for cOAlition S’s proposal for Transformative Journals to succeed - Springer Nature Group - 17 December 2019

Springer Nature may pull Plan S backing over ‘unfair’ rules - Times Higher Education - 17 December 2019

Will the Hybrid Journal Be Transformed by Plan S? - The Scholarly Kitchen - 17 December 2019

Predatory journals: no definition, no defence - Nature - 11 December 2019

The Need to Simplify Indexing and Data Sharing - Scholarly Kitchen - 11 December 2019

What Are the Larger Implications of Ex Libris Buying Innovative? - Ithaka S+R - 5 December 2019

The Tyranny of Unintended Consequences: Richard Poynder on Open Access and the Open Access Movement - The Scholarly Kitchen - 25 November 2019

Open access: Could defeat be snatched from the jaws of victory? - Open and Shut - 18 November 2019

Can Geowalling Save Open Access? - Scholarly Kitchen - 14 November 2019

Transparency: What Can One Learn from a Trove of Invoices? - The Scholarly Kitchen - 7 November 2019

Leveraging a Transformative Agreement to Incentivize Funder Spend - The Scholarly Kitchen - 29 October 2019

Research organisation releases publishing costs to highlight challenge of going to full open access - Science Business - 24 October 2019
...The publishing costs at EMBO - 24 October 2019

The Future of Open Access Business Models:  APCs Are Not the Only Way - The Scholarly Kitchen - 23 October 2019

First transformative agreement for Australia and New Zealand [Publish & Read deal  between The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and the UK-based Microbiology Society] - 17 October 2019

Roadblocks to Better Open Access Models - The Scholarly Kitchen - 9 October 2019

The Future of OA: A large-scale analysis projecting Open Access publication and readership - bioRxiv - 9 October 2019

Ramifications of the Downward Pressure on Pricing - The Scholarly Kitchen - 1 October 2019

Fighting Citation Pollution - The Challenge of Detecting Fraudulent Journals in Works Cited - Scholarly Kitchen - 25 September 2019

This Is Not Getting Cheaper. New overheads, regulations, and complexities diminish the hopes of savings - The Geyser - Hot Takes and Deep Thinking on the Info Economy - 13 September 2019

Will Libraries Help Publishers Prop Up the Value of the Big Deal? - Scholarly Kitchen - 3 September 2019

Pubfair: a framework for sustainable, distributed, open science publishing services - COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) - 3 September 2019

The future of academic publishing: disruption, opportunity and a new ecosystem - MJA - 19 August 2019

Plan S Version 2 and the Cost of Quality - The Scholarly Kitchen - 22 July 2019

Diverting Leakage to the Library Subscription Channel - The Scholarly Kitchen - 16 July 2019

University of California’s showdown with the biggest academic publisher aims to change scholarly publishing for good - The Conversation - 15 July 2019

They Know We Know They Know: Does Sci-Hub Affect Library Subscriptions? - The Scholarly Kitchen - 3 July 2019

Open and Equitable Scholarly Communications: Creating a More Inclusive Future - Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) - 14 June 2019

‘Broken access’ publishing corrodes quality. Funders should award competitive grants directly to journals to underwrite the costs of open access, urges Adriano Aguzzi - Nature - 12 June 2019

The war to free science. How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world’s academic research from paywalls - Vox - 10 June 2019

Plan S, the Verschlimmbesserung of Scholarly Information - The Geyser - Hot Takes and Deep Thinking on the Info Economy - June 2019

Sustaining Values and Scholarship: A Statement by the Provosts of the Big Ten Academic Alliance - 10 June 2019
...Full document

Plan U: Universal access to scientific and medical research via funder preprint mandates - PLOS Biology - 4 June 2019

Negotiating with scholarly journal publishers: A toolkit from the University of California - May 2019

Invest in Open Infrastructure

Impacts, consequences and outcomes of open policies in Europe - Dr Danny Kingsley - Slides from an Australasian Open Access Strategy Group Webinar - 30 May 2019

Rethinking impact factors: better ways to judge a journal - Nature - 28 May 2019

Plan S and open access scholarship - ABC RN Late Night Live - 28 May 2019

Are we being wilfully blind about the transformation that’s needed in scholarly publishing? - Medium - 23 May 2019

The Surprisingly Low Burden of Subscriptions at Institutions - The Scholarly Kitchen - 21 May 2019

Will Transformative Agreements Unravel Library Consortia? - The Scholarly Kitchen - 20 May 2019

Evaluating Open Access in a Consortial Context - The Scholarly Kitchen - 14 May 2019

OA2020 and cOAlition S Launch Joint Statement - 9 May 2019

2019 Big Deals Survey Report. An Updated Mapping of Major Scholarly Publishing Contracts in Europe - European University Association - May 2019

Article Processing Charge Hyperinflation and Price Insensitivity: An Open Access Sequel to the Serials Crisis - LIBER Quarterly - 2019

A multistakeholder discussion on open access and medical publishing - International Society for Medical Publication Professionals - April 2019

Special Collection. From Finch to Plan S: and you may ask yourself, well how did I get here? - UKSG Insights - 6 March 2019

Big Deal Cancellation Tracking - SPARC

CAUL Statement on Open Scholarship 2019 - CAUL

The University of California and Elsevier: An Interview with Jeff MacKie-Mason - The Scholarly Kitchen - 6 May 2019

Elsevier strikes its first national deal with large open-access element [Norway] - Nature - 26 April 2019

So what about editor compensation? - ScienceGuide - 9 April 2019

Three ways to support the democratisation of academic journals - LSE Impact Blog - 11 April 2019

Deal or No Deal | Periodicals Price Survey 2019 - Library Journal - 4 April 2019

European Commission adopts CC BY and CC0 for sharing information - 2 April 2019

Perceptions of Health Sciences Librarians in Liaison Roles on the Acquisition of Discipline Specific Knowledge - Doody's Core Titles - April 2019

The value of a journal is the community it creates, not the papers it publishes - LSE Impact Blog - 29 March 2019

SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) Landscape Analysis. The Changing Academic Publishing Industry - Implications for Academic Institutions - 28 March 2019

Emerging Trends in the Academic Publishing Lifecycle - The Scholarly Kitchen - 27 March 2019

#DontLeaveItToGoogle: How Open Infrastructures Enable Continuous Innovation in the Research Workflow - zenodo - 21 March 2019

Isn’t Leakage Good for Libraries? - The Scholarly Kitchen - 21 March 2019  [on the syndication model of acquisitions]

Wiley and The Norwegian Directorate for ICT and Joint Services in Higher Education and Research Partner to Advance Scholarly Research and Publishing in Norway - 15 March 2019

Is the Value of the Big Deal in Decline? - The Scholarly Kitchen - 7 March 2019

Open Access Publishing and Subsequent Citations Among Articles in Major Cardiovascular Journals - Am J Med - 6 March 2019

Content Platform Migrations Cause Headaches. Can We Avoid Some of the Pain? - The Scholarly Kitchen - 4 March 2019

The Plan S footprint: Implications for the scholarly publishing landscape - Institute for Scientific Information - February 2019

Improving Access to and Usability of Systematic Review Data for Health Systems Guidelines Development. Methods Research Report. - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality -  February 2019

Plan S – links, commentary and news items - Unlocking Research, University of Cambridge - 10 February 2019

The OA Switchboard - OASPA Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association - 12 February 2019

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) - Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP) - tracks and tags content on open access issues

OASPA [Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association] Feedback on Plan S Implementation Guidance - 8 February 2019

From coalition to commons: Plan S and the future of scholarly communication - UKSG Insights - 30 January 2019

Future of scholarly publishing and scholarly communication. Report of the Expert Group to the European Commission - 30 January 2019

No Free Lunch - What Price Plan S for Scientific Publishing? - NEJM - 30 January 2019

Editorial board mutinies: are they what’s needed or are they part of the problem? - 28 January 2019

Is Open Access Affordable? More to the point, is scholarly publishing affordable? - Learned Publishing - January 2019

Richard Smith: Pharmaceutical companies follow public funders of research in efforts to reform science publishing - BMJ - 25 January 2019

Celebrating 30,000 Open Access Articles … PARs, RAPs, and Exploring Implications - The Scholarly Kitchen - 22 January 2019

Projekt DEAL – John Wiley & Son Publish and Read Agreement - 15 January 2019

Plan S: What About Researchers? - The Scholarly Kitchen - 14 January 2019

Will the world embrace Plan S, the radical proposal to mandate open access to science papers? - ScienceMag - 3 January 2019

Welcome to The Great Acceleration - The Scholarly Kitchen - 2 January 2019

Who is pirating medical literature? A bibliometric review of 28 million Sci-Hub downloads - Lancet - 1 January 2019

Open access to research publications - 2018.  Independent advice / Professor Adam Tickell, Vice-Chancellor, University of Sussex, Chair of the Universities UK Open Access Coordination Group

Joint statement on the Importance of Open Scholarship - Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and the Australasian Open Access Strategy Group (AOASG) - 29 November 2018

Flying blind 2: Australian researchers and digital health - 29 November 2018

Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S - 27 November 2018

Upstreaming: The Migration of Economic Value in Scholarly Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen - 27 November 2018

Australian government funding arrangements for non-NHMRC research - Parliament of Australia. House of Representatives Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training - released 26 November 2018

European funders detail their open-access plan - ScienceMag - 26 November 2018

Do You Have Concerns about Plan S? Then You Must be an Irresponsible, Privileged, Conspiratorial Hypocrite - The Scholarly Kitchen - 26 November 2018

Wellcome is updating its open access policy [changes apply from 1 January 2020] - 5 November 2018
...Wellcome open access policy 2020

What is all this fuss about? Is wrong metadata really bad for libraries and their end-users? - UKSG Insights - 24 October 2018

Do authors comply when funders enforce open access to research? - Nature - 24 October 2018

Are Mirror Journals a Better Path to the Open Access Flip? - Scholarly Kitchen - 29 October 2018

RELX [daughter company, Elsevier] referral to EU competition authority [alleges anti-competitive practices ] - 26 October 2018

Open access briefing paper: The potential of global identifiers to support more efficient workflows for all kinds of OA - Jisc - 24 October 2018

Open access briefing paper: Considering the implications of the Finch Report - Jisc - 22 October 2018

Open access briefing paper: Alternatives to green and gold for journal articles and conference papers - Jisc - 22 October 2018

Do we need to “fail fast” to achieve open access? - Toby Green, LSE - 22 October 2018

The Fair Open Access Alliance (FOAA) recommendations on the Implementation of Plan S - 21 October 2018

Will Publishers Syndicate Their Content? - The Scholarly Kitchen - 15 October 2018

Open access at a crossroads - Physics Today - 11 October 2018

“It is for publishers to provide Plan S-compliant routes to publication in their journals” - Open and Shut - 10 October 2018

The STM Report. An overview of scientific and scholarly publishing 1968 - 2018 – Celebrating the 50th anniversary of STM - 9 October 2018
...Media release. STM launches 50th anniversary edition of STM Report - The International Association for Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM)

Used effectively, your research can improve policy and practice - Wellcome - 3 October 2018

The business of academic publishing: “a catastrophe” - Lancet - 6 October 2018

Architect of bold European open-access plan heads to Washington to garner US support. Robert-Jan Smits takes Plan S to the White House to seek support from US funders and policymakers - Nature - 4 October 2018

American Chemical Society (ACS) and Elsevier File Copyright Infringement Lawsuit in U.S. vs. ResearchGate - InfoDocket - 3 October 2018

Plan S: Making Open Access a Reality by 2020 - Robert-Jan Smits - Open Access Envoy, EPSC, European Commission - YouTube - 2 October 2018

Ebsco Serials Price Projections 2019     and      Ebsco Five Year Journal Price Increase History (2014 - 2018)

10 years on and where are we at? COASP 2018 (Conference of the Open Access Publishing Association) - Unlocking Research - 24 September 2018

The Plan S conversation continues - Unlocking Research - 24 September 2018

Is It Such a Big Deal? On the Cost of Journal Use in the Digital Era - College and Research Libraries - v.79 (6) 2018

Why a Society Publisher is Moving Toward Read and Publish Models - The Scholarly Kitchen - 24 September 2018

Plan T: Scrap APCs and Fund Open Access with Submission Fees - The Scholarly Kitchen - 20 September 2018

Think Sci-Hub is Just Downloading PDFs? Think Again - The Scholarly Kitchen - 18 September 2018

Ensuring quality as the basis of evidence synthesis: leveraging information specialists' knowledge, skills, and expertise - Cochrane - 13 September 2018

Scientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the research - it should be free - Guardian - 13 September 2018

We're still failing to deliver open access and solve the serials crisis: to succeed we need a digital transformation of scholarly communication using internet-era principles - Toby Green, OECD Publishing - 6 September 2018

"Open," Patronage, and Proposition S - Caldera Publishing Solutions - 5 September 2018

Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions - Nature - 4 September 2018

Science Without Publication Paywalls: cOAlition S for the Realisation of Full and Immediate Open Access - PLOS Medicine - 4 September 2018

Open access - the movie - Nature - 4 September 2018

Paywall: The Business of Scholarship [movie]  - Director: Jason Schmitt and sponsored by Open Society Foundations

European science funders ban grantees from publishing in paywalled journals - Science - 4 September 2018

cOAlition S: Making Open Access a Reality by 2020 - Science Europe - 4 September 2018
...Press release

Read and Publish: Is It Good for the Academy? - The Scholarly Kitchen - 4 September 2018
...Read and Publish - Royal Society of Chemistry model

How much does it cost to keep data? Study to forecast long-term costs - NLM - 4 September 2018

How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Publications 2018 - August 2018
...The supporting data has been made freely available and can be accessed via Figshare

The New Plugins - What Goals Are the Access Solutions Pursuing? - The Scholarly Kitchen - 23 August 2018

Denialism on the Rocks: It Just Got a Lot Harder to Pretend that Predatory Publishing Doesn’t Matter - The Scholarly Kitchen - 7 August 2018

Open Access Policy in the UK: From Neoliberalism to the Commons - Stuart Andrew Lawson - thesis, University of London - 2018 [July draft]

Dutch publishing giant cuts off researchers in Germany and Sweden. Negotiations with Elsevier have stalled over open-access deals - Nature - 19 July 2018

OA Big Deals: VSNU embraces greater transparency - Open and Shut? - 9 July 2018

National plan for open science [France] - 4 July 2018

LIBER Open Science Roadmap - 2 July 2018

The Latest in Search: Do New Discovery Solutions Improve Search as well as Retrieval? - The Scholarly Kitchen - 28 June 2018

Time to Check Out of the Hybrid Hotel? - The Scholarly Kitchen - 25 June 2018

Some science journals that claim to peer review papers do not do so - The Economist - 23 June 2018

Will the European Big Deal Contagion Spread to North America? - Scholarly Kitchen - 18 June 2018

Monitoring sector progress towards compliance with funder open access policies - Research England - 14 June 2018

Red light, green light. Aligning the library to support licensing

What do we do with your article processing charge data? - Jisc - 6 June 2018

Open Research Funders Group Infrastructure Survey Results - 25 May 2018

Declaration of Rights and Principles to Transform Scholarly Communication - University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication (UCOLASC) - 25 April 2018

Gold open access by country 2012 - 2017 - Walt Crawford - 2018

The circuitous road towards open access: Swedish universities to pull the plug on Elsevier - Karolinska Institutet - 21 May 2018

Sweden stands up for open access – cancels agreement with Elsevier - MyNewsDesk - 18 May 2018

Europe’s open-access drive escalates as university stand-offs spread - Nature - 17 May 2018

What was missing in Australia’s $1.9 billion infrastructure announcement - The Conversation - 17 May 2018

Big Deal Cancellation Tracking - SPARC

‘Big Deal’ Cancellations Gain Momentum - Inside Higher Ed - 8 May 2018

1findr, Dimensions and other free mega indexes - A review of the space and numbers comparison - Musings about librarianship - 30 April 2018

Death By 1,000 Cuts | Periodicals Price Survey 2018 - Library Journal - 23 April 2018

The Race to the Bottom — Short-term Bargains versus Long-term Vitality - The Scholarly Kitchen - 23 April 2018

European University Association. Big deals survey report. The First Mapping of Major Scientific Publishing Contracts in Europe - April 2018

North, South, and Open Access: The view from California with Jeff MacKie-Mason - Open and Shut - 8 April 2018

A Multilevel Approach for Library Value Assessment - College and Research Libraries - April 2018

Provosts' Perceptions of Academic Library Value & Preferences for Communication: A National Study - College and Research Libraries - April 2018

French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Journals - The Scientist - 31 March 2018

The Open Access Big Deal: Back to the Future - Richard Poynder, Open and Shut - 28 March 2018

Friendly Guide to COUNTER Release 5 for Librarians. This guide is a non-intimidating manual for librarians

Is it time to nationalise academic publishers? - Times Higher Education - 2 March 2018

Climate change in the subscription landscape - UKSG - 2 March 2018

OPen Access 2016 - 2017 EUA Survey Results - European University Association - February 2018

Data policy standardisation and implementation - Research Data Alliance

Journal and publisher research data policy master framework (RDA IG draft output) DRAFT v1.2 Feb 2018

Who Owns Australian Research? by Colin Steele - John Menadue's blog Pearls and Irritations - 21 February 2018

Responding to Unsustainable Journal Costs - Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) - 15 February 2018 ...  Full text

Science's pirate queen: Alexandra Elbakyan is plundering the academic publishing establishment - 8 February 2018

In Conversation with the Wellcome Trust - sharing & managing research outputs - Unlocking Research (University of Cambridge Office of Scholarly Communication) - 26 January 2018

Q&A with FinELib, the consortium of Finnish Universities, Research Institutes and Public Libraries - Open and Shut? 24 January 2018

Research information costs of the University of Virginia - Presentation to UVA Deans - 22 January 2018

Germany vs Elsevier: universities win temporary journal access after refusing to pay fees - Nature - 4 January 2018