Trump cuts subscriptions to Springer Nature journals
The Trump administration has ended several U.S. science agencies’ subscriptions to Springer Nature journals, including the prestigious Nature titles. The move, which will end easy access to the journals for agency staff scientists, follows recent criticisms of academic journals by administration officials who accused them of bias. The cuts involving the for-profit, publicly traded Springer Nature—one of the world’s largest scientific publishers, producing more than 3000 journal titles— were first reported Wednesday by Axios , without detailing specific agencies affected. Government officials have given conflicting statements about whether the cut included the company’s single biggest U.S. government subscription contract, with the National Institutes of...