Elsevier launches new journal – Anthropocene - January 30, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new journal, Anthropocene. As a quarterly journal Anthropocene will publish research focusing on the effect of human activity on landscapes, oceans, the atmosphere, cryosphere, and ecosystems. Effects are measured over a range of time and space… Read More
Palgrave Macmillan announces OA option for monographs and Palgrave Pivot publications - January 29, 2013
Academic publisher Palgrave Macmillan has announced that it will offer authors and their funders the option to publish open access (OA) research across all publication formats. Palgrave Macmillan journal articles, monographs and Palgrave Pivot publications can now be made available with immediate open access upon… Read More
Elsevier launches new OA journal – Molecular Metabolism - January 29, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new, open access journal, Molecular Metabolism, in affiliation with the German Research Center for Environmental Health (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany) and the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD, Germany). Molecular Metabolism is devoted to the… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry launches materials science journal - January 29, 2013
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced the launch of a new journal – Materials Horizons. The latest addition to the RSC Publishing portfolio will disseminate research across the extensive breadth of materials research, spanning multiple scientific disciplines. Materials Horizons will publish first reports… Read More
SAGE Open author publication fee discounted to $99 per article - January 25, 2013
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that the price of publication in SAGE Open has been discounted to $99 per article. SAGE Open, launched in May 2011, was the world's first broad-based gold open access journal for the social sciences and humanities. With this move, the publisher… Read More
The Max Planck Society and De Gruyter in deal to publish open access books - January 25, 2013
Research organisation Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft), Germany, and academic publishing house De Gruyter have signed an agreement to cooperate in the publication of Open Access books. The agreement covers texts intended for publication by scholars at the more than 80 individual Max Planck institutes working… Read More
