Commencing around April 2013 the NIH will begin to hold processing of non-competing continuation awards if publications arising from grant awards are not in compliance with the public access policy.

In July the RSC Publishing launched Gold for Gold, enabling RSC Gold subscribers in the UK to publish RSC papers free-of-charge via Gold Open Access (OA). RSC have extended this initiative to the rest of the world stating that, from now on, all RSC Gold subscribing institutions will be rewarded with voucher codes to publish OA articles at no cost.

Richard Poynder deliberates the latest report on open-access Reed Elsiveir: Transition to Open Access - Are the cost Savings Sufficient to Protect Margins? Published by investment analyst Claudio Aspei, it examines the cost savings in an open access model with the Reed Elsivier publishers finance team. The report estimates that a full transition to open access could lead to a saving of 10-12% of the cost base of a subscription publish

SCOAP³, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics, has developed an innovative model to achieve open access to peer-reviewed journals in high-energy physics (HEP).

The American Psychological Association (APA) is now accepting manuscripts for Archives of Scientific Psychology, which is expecting to publish its first article next year. Gary VendenBos co-editor stated "While Archives isn't psychology's first open-access journal, it is the first to require authors to contribute their full data set to a central, restricted-access data repository." The journal aims to appeal to a dual audience of both scientis

ScienceDirect has provided free access to the 2012 Nobel Laureates most-cited ground-breaking research published in Elsevier journals in recognition of these extraordinary scholars and their contributions to science i

The European Science Foundation (ESF) released a report this week which aims to accelerate the adoption of open access to research articles in the biomedical sciences. The briefing emphasises the "moral imperative" (ESF 2012) of open access to maximise the value of biomedical research.

The Guardian reported this week on a new study in the BMC Medicine on open access (OA) and academic publishing. The primary aim of the study was to "measure the volume of scientific articles published in full immediate OA journal from 2000 to 2011" (Laakso & Bjork 2012). Further to this, the study also measured the share of open access articles which included publications th