The Open Update is Liberate Science's digest on what's been going on in the open science space. We release an update weekly, and you can either watch it on YouTube or on listen to the audio on your favorite podcast provider.
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Wiley acquires Hindawi
https://newsroom.wiley.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2021/Wiley-Announces-the-Acquisition-of-Hindawi/default.aspx
PNAS moves to Atypon
https://web.archive.org/web/20210111131048/https://www.pnas.org/page/updates#pnas-atypon-literatum
Wiley includes ads in front of PDFs of papers
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/rcm.8604
Google employees unionize
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3an5q9/google-workers-publicly-launch-union
Open letter concerning Transphobia in Philosophy
https://sites.google.com/view/trans-phil-letter/
https://www.praile.net/post/kathleen-stock-obe
CERN's new open data policy
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201231/02234445977/seven-years-ago-cern-gave-open-access-huge-boost-now-doing-same-open-data.shtml
Open data indicates 2020 was warmest year on record
https://climate.copernicus.eu/2020-warmest-year-record-europe-globally-2020-ties-2016-warmest-year-recorded
GitHub allows access to users from Iran
https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-github-is-fully-available-in-iran/
Twitter bans Sci-Hub account
https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-founder-criticises-sudden-twitter-ban-over-over-counterfeit-content-210108/
Wellcome Trust updates open access policy
https://twitter.com/wellcometrust/status/1346414974521012225?s=12
Open Access Button launches ShareYourPaper.org
https://blog.openaccessbutton.org/shareyourpaper-org-for-libraries-out-now/
UCL apologizes for eugenic history
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2021/jan/ucl-makes-formal-public-apology-its-history-and-legacy-eugenics
Copyright restricts reuse of quality guidelines
http://jogh.org/documents/issue202002/jogh-10-0203107.pdf
NCBI NIH accounts restricted from June 1st, 2021
https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2021/01/05/important-changes-ncbi-accounts-2021/
renv package released
https://rstudio.github.io/renv/articles/renv.html
eLife publicly reviewed 300 submissions
https://twitter.com/elife/status/1347507848922734594?s=12
Podcast Open Science Stories upcoming
https://anchor.fm/opensciencestories
