OASPA provides feedback on Plan S implementation - February 11, 2019
As a community of 140 organisations who are committed to the advancement of open access publishing and who represent the majority of the OA journal output in the DOAJ, OASPA is supportive of the intentions of Plan S. A coordinated approach by the funders that… Read More
Hindawi responses to call for feedback on implementation guidelines of Plan S by cOAlition S - February 11, 2019
Hindawi has announced its support for the principles and ambitions of Plan S. Funders have collectively agreed to enforce Open Access with a default CC BY licence for academic articles arising from their grants sends a hugely powerful signal to researchers, publishers, institutions and other actors… Read More
Association of American Publishers recognises AERA Open as Best New Journal in Social Sciences - February 11, 2019
Association of American Publishers (AAP) has named AERA Open as ‘Best New Journal in Social Sciences’ for the 2019 Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Awards). The awards honoured scholarly works published in 2018, including books, journals, and digital products that demonstrated exceptional scholarship… Read More
IWA Publishing and Knowledge Unlatched make 14 book titles Open Access - February 11, 2019
IWA Publishing has announced that through their recent partnership with Knowledge Unlatched (KU), a library crowd-funding initiative, they have made 14 of their books Open Access. Titles are available to download for free on the IWA Publishing website, the KU platform and the Directory of Open… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - February 11, 2019
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Siân Harris (The Evolving Landscape of Research Access and its Impact on the Global South); You-Na Lee and John P. Walsh (Building reliable teams, a cure for research pathologies?); Benjamin Mazer (Should journals credit eagle-eyed readers by name in retraction… Read More
Applications now open for the Annual SSP Fellowship Program - February 8, 2019
The Career Development Committee of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is inviting applications for the 2019 Annual Fellowship Program. Interested candidates can begin the application process here. Early-career professionals in the first four years of their employment in the scholarly… Read More
