De Gruyter offers access to all of its scholarly content to top Wikipedia editors - October 2, 2014
Academic publisher De Gruyter will give access to all of its scholarly content to 1.000 highly active Wikipedia editors and will allow them to use it for their encyclopedia research. The editors are offered the opportunity to read ebooks, journals and database entries on De Gruyter… Read More
Wellcome Trust launches charity fund to support open access research publications - October 1, 2014
Six medical research charities recently launched the Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) to cover open access, article-processing charges. Robert Kiley is Head of Digital Services at the Wellcome Library and is responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Trust's open access policy.… Read More
LIBER calls on European Commission to take measures towards enabling Open Science - October 1, 2014
On the eve of the closing of the European Consultation on Science 2.0, LIBER issued a statement both welcoming the Consultation as a step towards strengthening the competitiveness of European research, and calling on the European Commission to take measures towards enabling Open Science. Commenting… Read More
Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities now available digitally as American Doctoral Dissertations 1933-1955™ via EBSCO - October 1, 2014
The print index, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities (DDAAU), is now available digitally as American Doctoral Dissertations 1933-1955™. EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston worked together to digitize the content and build the free database… Read More
BioMed Central and the University of Michigan in deal to publish open access journal Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology - October 1, 2014
Open access publisher BioMed Central and the University of Michigan have announced an agreement to publish a new open access journal, Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology, which is now open for submissions and will begin publishing in the first quarter of 2015. … Read More
SAGE launches open access journal PLEURA to advance knowledge of pleural diseases - October 1, 2014
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the launch of PLEURA, an open access journal publishing research on recent advances in pleural diseases. The journal will be published as the official journal of the International Society of Pleural Diseases. PLEURA will promote a multidisciplinary approach to the… Read More
