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