Between the end of May and the beginning of June 2019, a series of papers on Open Science, Open Access and research evaluation was published. In addition also a more dated but always interesting one on the open peer review. Among them:

• Assessing the size of the affordability problem in scholarly publishing, June 18.
• “Apriti, scienza”? Le possibilità e i limiti di un piano nazionale per la scienza aperta, June 12.
• Broken Access, June 12.
• The war to free science How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world’s academic research from paywalls, June 10.
• Sustaining Values and Scholarship. A Statement by the Provosts of the Big Ten Academic Alliance, June 10.
• Università, le regole del gioco che drogano la ricerca scientifica, June 4.
• Over-optimization of academic publishing metrics: observing Goodhart’s Law in action, May 30.
• Rethinking impact factors: better ways to judge a journal, May 28.
• Publish peer reviews, September 13, 2018, correction.

In addition, an interesting TEDx video on Open Science as a solution to the main problems of scientific research.

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