Elsevier to publish OA journal Pathogenesis on behalf of The Royal College of Pathologists - January 30, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of an open access journal - Pathogenesis. Pathogenesis will be published on behalf of The Royal College of Pathologists a professional membership organisation committed to setting and maintaining professional standards and promoting excellence in the practice of Pathology.… Read More
Informa’s Taylor & Francis extends Library & Information Science Author Rights pilot scheme - January 29, 2014
Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, has been running a Library & Information Science Author Rights pilot scheme that allows authors to post their peer-reviewed Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) to an institutional repository immediately after publication. The two year pilot scheme, first introduced in… Read More
Affordable, open access publishing now available to biological and medical science researchers - January 29, 2014
UK universities will now be able to centrally fund their researchers' publication plans for biological and medical sciences journal PeerJ following an agreement with Jisc. This will allow authors to publish articles in the journal for free, for life. PeerJ is… Read More
Oxford University Press partners with ISHAM to publish Medical Mycology journal - January 28, 2014
Academic publisher Oxford University Press has announced a new partnership with the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM). Beginning in January 2014, OUP and ISHAM will be working together to publish the journal Medical Mycology. Medical Mycology is a… Read More
Palgrave Macmillan launches open and transparent peer review trial for academic books in the humanities and social sciences - January 28, 2014
Academic publisher Palgrave Macmillan has launched an open and transparent peer review trial for academic books in the humanities and social sciences. The trial, which is live at www.palgraveopenreview.com, will run for six weeks and is the first open peer review… Read More
Submissions for Brill/IFLA Open Access award called for - January 28, 2014
Scholarly publisher Brill, Netherlands, and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) are inviting submissions for the 2014 IFLA/Brill Open Access award. The IFLA/Brill Open Access award is created to reward initiatives that facilitate and/or promote Open Access Scholarly… Read More
