Jeffrey Brainard writes: “Two years after a high-profile falling out, the University of California system and the academic publishing giant Elsevier have patched up differences and agreed on what will be the largest deal for open access publishing in scholarly journals in North America. The deal is also the world’s first such contract that includes Elsevier’s highly selective flagship journals Cell and The Lancet. The deal meets demands made by UC when it suspended negotiations with Elsevier in 2019.”