Robustness of registered reports, open access in China, open science grants, Arecibo Observatory closing down, CC-BY fines

Supporting open science in developing countries, diversification of publishing, arXiv update, SPARC report Europe, cryptography advances

Open science for Asia, Africa and Latin America; Web of Science revamp; paying peer reviewers; impact of COVID-19 on research

NIH data policy, editors that alter reviewer reports without permission, societies in age of COVID, a Black researcher’s journey to her PhD

Nature open access charges, Scholastica report on OA, PLOS price transparency, Reassembling Scholarly Communications

UNESCO recommendations on open science, UK report on global open access challenges and opportunities, PLOS policy on name changes for published transgender authors

Citation coverage in databases, APC issues for African researchers, academic job openings plummet, PLOS community action publishing

OSF sustainability, India subscription plans, HHMI joins cOAlition S, predatory journals and election disinformation, inclusive online conferences

Initiative for Open Abstracts; transparent peer review at Wiley, Springer Nature, and IOP; Cell Press community review

Open science network analysis, digital open science tools, disadvantages for non-English speakers, retracting racist work

Usage of open access books, IOP Publishing adopts double-blind peer review, John Arnold profile, reproducibility in the social sciences

Sustainable open source repositories, Wiley earnings report, organizational identifiers in Crossref, OA week theme, global vaccine allocation

DataCite Commons, eLife Executable Research Articles, ASAPbio preprint review challenge

LIBER Awards, Elsevier acquires SciBite, others; US cuts down on human fetal tissue research; China efforts on misconduct

Open Scholarship Knowledge Base launched, JSTOR free reading program, code sharing practices, MDPI’s growth