Springer and Baden-Wuerttemberg Consortium sign agreement for access to 1,917 Springer e- journals - October 23, 2014
Starting January 2015, researchers, faculty members and students affiliated with colleges and universities in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg will have convenient access to 1,917 electronic journals published by Springer. The license will continue through the end of 2017. Furthermore, the state has purchased permanent… Read More
Nature Publishing Group joins OASPA - October 23, 2014
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), a trade association which represents the interests of open access publishers in all academic disciplines. NPG publishes 73 journals with an open access option, and 38 percent of the research… Read More
Frontiers unveils new OA journal – Frontiers in ICT - October 23, 2014
Swiss open-access publisher Frontiers, part of the Nature Publishing Group family, has announced the launch of Frontiers in ICT, an international, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed open-access journal that brings all specialisms across information and communications technologies together on a single platform. From big data to digital health… Read More
Cambridge University Press and the BSHS announce publishing partnership - October 23, 2014
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press and the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) have announced their partnership to launch a new, peer-reviewed, open access, thematic journal, for the history of science. A call for proposals for the first volume of BJHS Themes has been… Read More
NPG and Palgrave Macmillan make data from Author Insights survey publicly available as part of Open Access Week - October 21, 2014
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Palgrave Macmillan are making data from their Author Insights survey publicly available for the first time as part of Open Access Week. The survey, which contains views from 30,466 researchers, is the biggest publisher survey of authors’ views to… Read More
Elsevier publishes new books on natural disasters and hazards - October 21, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of four new books on natural disasters and hazards, including three from the newly developed Hazards and Disasters series edited by Dr. John F. Shroder. Some of the worst known natural disasters in world history happened in the… Read More
