HBKU Press celebrates Open Access Week 2020 - October 26, 2020
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) is celebrating Open Access (OA) Week 2020 by reaffirming its commitment as a leader in information dissemination despite the economic challenges that publishers worldwide are facing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. OA Week is an annual… Read More
OCLC provides open access content freely accessible through WorldCat - October 26, 2020
OCLC is supporting libraries, researchers, educators and students with high-quality open access content that is discoverable and freely accessible through WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat.org. OCLC is making open content more discoverable and accessible through expanding collections and… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 26, 2020
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Liz Bal (Open with purpose); PLOS blog (PLOS and Transparency (including Plan S Price & Service Transparency Framework)); Roger C. Schonfeld (Are publishers learning from their mistakes?); Neal Haddaway (8 common problems with literature reviews and how to… Read More
Microbiology Society and IReL enter open-access agreement for ten Irish higher education institutions - October 23, 2020
Not-for-profit Society publisher, the Microbiology Society, and Ireland’s nationally funded e-learning consortium IReL, have announced an open-access (OA) agreement for ten Irish higher education institutions. This ’Publish and Read’ deal will allow researchers at selected institutions to publish an unlimited number of… Read More
Universiti Utara Malaysia Press to feature its publications on ScienceOpen’s interactive search and discovery platform - October 23, 2020
Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) Press has partnered with ScienceOpen to enrich its metadata and feature its publications on ScienceOpen’s interactive search and discovery platform. Seven UUM Press open access journals and approximately 400 other titles are now available in Read More
University of Cambridge to create single organisation - October 23, 2020
The University of Cambridge has announced that it will bring together its publishing and assessment operations to create a single organisation. Cambridge University Press and Cambridge Assessment publish and create world-leading content and examinations that are used across more than 170 countries. The move is… Read More
