The Week in Review is our weekly roundup of what’s new in open science from the past week. If you have news or announcements you’d like passed on to the community, be sure to share on Twitter with @mozillascience and @billdoesphysics, or join our mailing list and get in touch there.

Government & Policy

• The Greek government’s debt default of July 1 has resulted in the suspension of access for many researchers and universities in that country to closed-access journals and services paid for by the Hellenic Academic Libraries Link.
• The Netherlands has amended its copyright laws to grant scientists the right to release open access versions of any paper reporting on publicly funded research, regardless of rules imposed by the journal of first publication. Meanwhile, Dutch universities are moving to boycott Elsevier nationwide, over disputes to the publisher’s open access policy. These moves come on the heels of goals set by Sander Dekker, Secretary of Education, Culture and Science for the Netherlands, to have all Dutch scientific publications released under open access licenses by 2024.

Blogs & Articles

• Lily Hay Newman wrote an article reporting on the state of data sharing in the life sciences, presenting arguments for improvements to standardization, interoperability and distribution in order to encourage real reuse.
• The BMJ has updated its data sharing policy to demand data sharing for all submitted clinical trials, effective July 1.
• Cathleen O’Grady wrote an article exploring new strategies and discussions around transparency in research, including the recently published TOP Guidelines.
• Alice Williamson wrote an intro & update to the Open Source Malaria consortium, a group of scientists advancing malaria research in an aggressively open paradigm.
• Heidi Laine wrote an indictment of the scientific publishing model, examining the value that traditional journals are supposed to add to science, and how well they are delivering on those promises today.
• Chris Woolston reported on recent work by Daniel Himmelstein that examined the typical latency between acceptance and publication of a paper at several thousand journals.
• A recent Nature Genetics editorial acknowledged the growing role that open data has in determining the relevance of a paper to the field; the editorial concludes that “A high-impact paper needs to have a high degree of usefulness to others.”
• Ben Deighton interviewed Nature editor Phillip Campbell on Campbell’s views on the rising demand for open access publishing.
• Elsevier is suing scihub.org for copyright infringement; Alexandra Elbakyan, scihub’s founder, will fight the suit, in part because even losing the case would “demonstrate an important idea: that the public does not have the right to knowledge.”

Tools & Projects

• Mike Taylor of SV-POW is contributing to the One Repo project, a metadata index that seeks to provide a single point of contact for every open-access journal and repo across all scientific disciplines.