- A Science News item published Wednesday discusses negotiations between German institutions and publishers to create a new nation-wide open access model. According to the report, a successful agreement for the large German market could lead to a major shift in academic publishing.
- The meetings in Germany are just one of the current cases mentioned in Sci-Hub Moves to the Center of the Ecosystem, a post on Scholarly Kitchen looking at how the existence of the illegal sharing site effects the landscape of scholarly publishing and libraries.
- Legal issues for Sci-Hub continue. Two weeks ago, it was reported that the American Chemical Society (ACS), is seeking millions of dollars in damages from the site and also wants internet service providers to block it. Thanks to Nancy Sims, aka @CopyrightLibn, for sharing this item and calling attention to it.
- Wrapping up this post, but certainly far from the final word on the matter, is a letter to ResearchGate from the International Association of Scientific and Medical Publishers (STM) proposing a solution to the paper sharing site’ legal issues.