SAGE launches open access journal PLEURA to advance knowledge of pleural diseases - October 1, 2014
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the launch of PLEURA, an open access journal publishing research on recent advances in pleural diseases. The journal will be published as the official journal of the International Society of Pleural Diseases. PLEURA will promote a multidisciplinary approach to the… Read More
BioMed Central and the University of Michigan in deal to publish open access journal Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology - October 1, 2014
Open access publisher BioMed Central and the University of Michigan have announced an agreement to publish a new open access journal, Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology, which is now open for submissions and will begin publishing in the first quarter of 2015. … Read More
De Gruyter Open to convert eight subscription journals to Open Access mega journals - September 29, 2014
Open Access publisher De Gruyter Open has announced that it will publish a group of eight Central European Journals now distributed in subscription model by Springer and turn them to Open Access, starting with volume 2015. This is a move unprecedented for a group of STM… Read More
Oxford University Press announces free access to Electronic Enlightenment for British Library users - September 29, 2014
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced that users of the British Library will now be able to use the Electronic Enlightenment (EE) online resource as part of a two year trial. The trial begins this month in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the… Read More
Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi named founding editor-in-chief of ACS Central Science journal - September 29, 2014
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that internationally renowned chemist Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi will take the helm as editor-in-chief of its first fully open access journal, ACS Central Science, which is set to launch in early 2015. Currently a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator… Read More
SAGE and British Education Research Association collaborate to launch Handbook of Educational Research - September 26, 2014
Academic publisher SAGE and The British Educational Research Association (BERA), one of the UK's leading charities to encourage education research, has announced the launch of the Handbook of Educational Research at the 2014 annual BERA Conference. SAGE and BERA have agreed… Read More