‘It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity’ to be the theme for the 2021 Open Access Week - August 16, 2021
The 2021 Open Access Week Advisory Committee has announced the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week, to be held October 25-31. The theme will be “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.” This year’s theme intentionally aligns with the recently released UNESCO… Read More
Society of Hospital Medicine selects Wiley to publish industry-leading publications and manage career center - August 16, 2021
The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), a medical society comprising more than 15,000 hospitalists, and global research and education leader Wiley have announced that, starting in January 2022, Wiley will both publish SHM’s industry-leading publications and support SHM in developing and managing its career… Read More
BioOne unveils new Archive option and BioOne Complete title additions for 2022 - August 16, 2021
BioOne has announced a new institutional purchase option, the BioOne Complete Archive, and the addition of two new titles to the BioOne Complete subscription in 2022. The BioOne Complete Archive secures continuing platform access to all subscribed content published through 2017, and includes more than 135,000… Read More
Portico announces participation in Embedding Preservability project - August 16, 2021
Digital content preservation service Portico will participate in Embedding Preservability, a three-year project led by the NYU Libraries’ Digital Library Technology Services unit and supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The goal of the project is to support publishers in making design choices that result… Read More
Public Knowledge Project accessibility statement - August 16, 2021
The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is committed to providing a user experience that is accessible to the widest possible audience. To achieve this, a new OJS Default Theme was developed by PKP for OJS 3.3 and higher, and was audited for accessibility barriers. PKP is actively… Read More
UKRI Open Access Policy: ALPSP Copyright Committee responds - August 13, 2021
As an international trade association, ALPSP supports and represents not-for-profit organizations that publish scholarly and professional content, as well as those that work with them. ALPSP members are very supportive of open access and have already taken and continue to take significant steps to ensure that as… Read More
