Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week
PLOS One The oligopoly of academic publishers in the digital era Chemistry World Chemical sciences literature dominated by five publishing houses Insider Higher Education Study views academic publishing as an oligopoly
Stanford Medicine $9 million grant to establish open-access autism database at Stanford Research Information Accelerating the advance of scholarly communications BBC Sir Tim Hunt resigns from university role over girls comment John Hopkins News Network JHU Press receives grant to develop open access to monographs Torrent Freak Elsevier cracks down on pirated scientific articles BioMed Central blogs A beginner’s guide to peer review: part two Discover Blog DIYbio and Open Science changed my life (and could change yours) Devex 7 challenges the agriculture sector must address to unleash its data revolution The Guardian Open data on council spending is largely unread by voters World Bank Exploring open energy data in urban areas
