ACM takes a significant step towards becoming a fully OA publisher - April 7, 2022
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), has announced that its first 50 years of publications, from 1951 through the end of 2000, are now open and freely available to view and download via the ACM Digital Library. ACM’s first 50 years backfile contains… Read More
JMIR Publications and Jisc announce Open Access agreement - April 7, 2022
JMIR Publications, the leading publisher of digital health research, and Jisc, the UK’s digital body for education and research, have entered a two-year pilot agreement offering member institutions unlimited open access (OA) publishing in the growing JMIR family of journals for… Read More
DOAJ receives funding from the French National Fund for Open Science - April 7, 2022
DOAJ, a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high-quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals, will be receiving €70,000 EUR in funding from the French National Fund for Open Science. The decision to allocate the funds was taken by the Steering Committee for… Read More
Springer Nature adds new medical technologies title to its OA portfolio - April 6, 2022
As the largest publisher of open access (OA) primary research, Springer Nature continues to explore new outlets and platforms for the advancement of scientific discovery. BMC’s (part of Springer Nature) latest addition to the fully OA journal portfolio BMC Digital Health, is a key… Read More
Wiley and South African consortium SANLiC sign OA agreement - April 6, 2022
Global research and education leader Wiley has announced a new ground-breaking, four-year agreement with SANLiC (South African National Library and Information Consortium), a consortium of public South African higher education and research institutions, with the aim to deliver more open-access research and empower scholars… Read More
Annual Reviews to make all content freely available through Subscribe to Open model - April 6, 2022
Non-profit publisher Annual Reviews has announced that over the next 18 months they will make their entire portfolio of 51 academic journals freely available to everyone under a new model called Subscribe to Open. These highly cited journals cover topics across the sciences, including… Read More
