First transformative journals, open science in Africa, Microsoft’s take on open data, Clarivate on suppression of journals, JISC survey on identifiers

ERC withdraws from Plan S, later announces Bourguignon back as interim president; DEI at PLOS; heat wave in Siberian Arctic

Zenodo removing Altmetric badges; ways to increase diversity, equity, inclusion at journals; decline of immunity response after COVID-19

UK pledges open access, preprints peer review journal, COVID candidate vaccines, procedures for safely returning to labs

Digital research infrastructure, Virtual Event Awards, failures of peer review, searing Arctic temperatures

Resilient infrastructures require openness, RSC action framework for diversity and inclusion, UC deal with Springer Nature, dexamethasone and COVID-19

Preprints in PMC, fewer than 1% of UK professors are black, permanence of free COVID collections, MIT ends Elsevier deal negotiations

Black Lives Matter, OECD survey on open science, COVID-19 retractions, White House releases responses to OA consultation

Elsevier deal with Dutch universities, new home for EarthArXiv, studies of remdesivir and hydroxychloroquine, birth of a new planet

Gender inequity in academia during pandemic, disruptions to higher education, eLife preprint review, global inter-library loan scheme during COVID

Open academic infrastructure, TOP Factor collaboration with Clarivate, NHS records reveal COVID comorbidities, COVID vaccine considerations

Publishers initiative on COVID-19, pandemic amplifies flaws in the research system, Supreme Court rules on Georgia copyright case

Clarivate adds open access data to JCR, more universities financial concerns, OpenCitations COVID data, transparent peer review at RSC

Public (mis)understanding of primary COVID literature, limits of ‘big deal’ subscription schemes, in support of WHO funding, the woman who discovered coronaviruses

Crossref dataset, cOAlition S updates requirements, Elsevier big deal cancellations, Springer Nature survey of APC funding sources