Palgrave Macmillan imprint to continue as part of Springer Nature - June 8, 2015
Global academic and business publisher Palgrave Macmillan has announced that the Palgrave Macmillan imprint will continue as part of Springer Nature, publishing books, monographs and journals in professional, business, finance and the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS). The Palgrave higher education imprint will also continue as… Read More
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. launches six-month pilot program in partnership with F1000Research - June 5, 2015
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the launch of a six-month pilot program in partnership with F1000Research. The pilot offers authors whose articles do not meet the specific criteria for publication in five Wiley journals the option to submit their manuscript to F1000Research, giving… Read More
Growing support for statement against Elsevier policy - June 5, 2015
In the last two weeks, over 1600 individuals and organisations from 52 countries around the world have signed a statement opposing Elsevier's new article sharing and hosting policy, underscoring that many in the scholarly community do not support the new policy. The policy imposes unacceptably… Read More
American Society of Clinical Oncology invites authors to submit papers to new OA journal, Journal of Global Oncology - June 5, 2015
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and Dr. David Kerr, founding Editor-in-Chief of the Society's new Journal of Global Oncology, are inviting authors to submit their next article to this new online-only, open access journal. Journal of Global Oncology fulfills a growing need for… Read More
SpringerOpen expands Japanese society open access journals portfolio - June 4, 2015
Surgical Case Reports is now being published by SpringerOpen and it will soon be joined by JA Clinical Reports and IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications. The addition of these journals to the portfolio adds to the growing number of Japanese society open access journals… Read More
Thieme announces new research project examining authors’ perceptions of APC and Pay What You Want as a business model for academic journals - June 4, 2015
Medical and scientific publisher Thieme has announced a collaboration with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich's School of Management and Department of Economics in a groundbreaking research project. The project involves examining authors' perceptions of Article Processing Fees (APC) and Pay What You Want (PWYW) as a business… Read More
