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We’re switching our eight subscription journals to a Subscribe to Open model. Royal Society Publishing Director, Rod Cookson, explains why and how.

Science is built on integrity and trustworthiness so when a flood of low-quality or fraudulent papers enter the system unchecked, trust in science is damaged. Bernhard A Sabel at the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany and Dan Larhammar at Uppsala University, Sweden present the ‘Stockholm Declaration’ for the ‘Reformation of Science Publishing’ published in Royal Society Open Science.

Each year, Open Access Week highlights a theme that encourages discussion and reflection. This year’s theme, ‘Who owns our knowledge?’ invites us to consider important questions of ownership, access and equity in research. Whose voices are valued in academic research? Who has the right to access education and scientific findings? And how can the scientific community shape the future of knowledge in an era of change?

Data and code are essential for ensuring the credibility of scientific results and facilitating reproducibility, areas in which journal sharing policies play a crucial role. Edward Ivimey-Cook from the School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow (now a Lecturer at the University of East Anglia) tells us more about a new study that reviewed the clarity, strictness, and timing of data- and code-sharing policies across 275 journals in ecology and evolution, and assessed author compliance at two journals, Ecology Letters and Proceedings B.

It’s Biology Letters’ 20th anniversary!

91TV journals' open access output increased from 66% in 2023 to 71% in 2024.

Entries are now open for the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2024. Here we meet our newest judge, and Science Chair at The Royal Photographic Society, Hugh Turvey.

Subject Editors, Publishing Editors, Editorial Board Members – there are so many different roles relating to scholarly publishing. But who is everyone? And, as an academic, how can you get involved with a journal yourself?