Marking the 15th Anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative - March 3, 2017
This year marks the 15th Anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), a landmark meeting convened in Budapest by the Open Society Foundations (OSF) that aimed to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available. The participants… Read More
Australian Research Council and La Trobe University launch Pilot Program with CHOR - March 3, 2017
CHOR, a developer of public access research management solutions, has announced its second international pilot program to assist government funding agencies in the identification and tracking of public accessibility to published research in peer-reviewed journals. Starting in March 2017, in partnership with the Australian Research Council… Read More
CABI’s CAB Direct platform highly recommended by CHOICE magazine - March 3, 2017
The CAB Direct platform, a single point of access to all of CABI’s databases, has been rated as ‘highly recommended’ for undergraduates, researchers, faculty members, technical programme students, professionals and practitioners in the March 2017 issue of CHOICE magazine. CABI launched CAB Direct in July… Read More
Major educational content providers and distributors join forces to fight counterfeit textbooks - March 2, 2017
Academic publishers Cengage, McGraw-Hill Education, and Pearson have joined forces with Ingram and Chegg, Inc. to have them adopt and implement a set of Anti-Counterfeit Best Practices designed to address… Read More
New Scholastica white paper proposes democratized OA academic journal publishing to solve serials crisis - March 2, 2017
Scholastica, a peer review and open access (OA) publishing platform for academic journals, has announced 'Democratizing Academic Journals: Technology, Services, and Open Access,' a new white paper on the state of academic journal publishing. The paper proposes an upending of the corporate publisher paradigm to make… Read More
Elsevier launches new OA journal for healthcare professionals dealing with burn injuries - March 2, 2017
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of Burns Open: An International Open Access Journal for Burn Injuries. Published on behalf of the International Society for Burn Injuries (ISBI), and a companion to Burns, this new international open access journal aims to foster the exchange of… Read More
