UW Libraries set to launch Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education - March 21, 2022
University of Wyoming Libraries will soon be launching a new, open peer-reviewed journal - the Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education (JOERHE). The journal is currently accepting scholarly articles that critically analyze the role of open educational resources (OER) in higher education for its debut… Read More
The Japan Science and Technology Agency set to launch Japan’s first full-fledged preprint server, Jxiv - March 21, 2022
The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) plans to release Jxiv on March 24, 2022. Jxiv is the first full-fledged preprint server in Japan that makes unpublished, pre-reviewed papers (preprints) openly available, in order to support rapid-release research results and promote open science. Papers are one of… Read More
Frontiers and Vytautas Magnus University form publishing agreement - March 21, 2022
Vytautas Magnus University has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible Vytautas Magnus University researchers may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to them and with a simplified process. Articles may benefit from a 2.5%… Read More
ACS and Universities of The Netherlands renew partnership to advance OA publishing - March 17, 2022
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Universities of The Netherlands (UNL) consortium have renewed their partnership to advance open access publishing. This signals their continued commitment to the principles of open science in a “read and publish” agreement, which is set to… Read More
Cambridge University Press announces transformative agreements with the NERL and OhioLINK library consortia - March 17, 2022
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has entered into two major new open access publishing agreements in the United States. Transformative agreements with both the NERL and OhioLINK library consortia will support researchers at dozens more US universities and higher education… Read More
IntechOpen and Knowledge Unlatched in deal to support researchers working in engineering sciences - March 17, 2022
IntechOpen and Knowledge Unlatched have formed a partnership to support researchers working in engineering sciences by enabling an easier approach to publishing Open Access content. Using the Knowledge Unlatched crowdfunding model to raise the publishing costs through libraries around the world, Open Access Publishing… Read More