Stanford University joins 20 other universities to enter into an Institutional Arrangement with PeerJ - February 12, 2014
PeerJ, an open access publisher of scholarly articles in the biological, life & medical sciences, has announced that with the addition of Stanford University, twenty universities have now signed up to provide PeerJ Publication Plans to their faculty. Authors from these institutions will have their publication… Read More
The Max Planck Society secures access to 110,000 books from almost 170 years of publishing history for its researchers - February 11, 2014
STM publisher Springer has announced that the Max Planck Society has bought the entire Springer Book Archives (SBA) consisting of 110,000 individual titles. The purchase gives staff in 82 Max Planck institutes in Germany direct online access to the retro-digitised books via the SpringerLink platform (
Over 600 public research and higher education institutions in France gain access to ScienceDirect Freedom Collection - February 11, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the Couperin Consortium have come to a new agreement that provides researchers at over 600 public research and higher education institutions in France access to the ScienceDirect Freedom Collection content for five years. ScienceDirect is Elsevier' full-text database of more than… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health and American Society for Dermatologic Surgery announce publishing agreement - February 11, 2014
Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, and the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery have announced an agreement to publish the Society's official journal, Dermatologic Surgery, in print, online and digital formats effective with the June 2014 issue. Dermatologic… Read More
Taylor & Francis expands public access through Access to Research project - February 11, 2014
Access to Research, a pilot initiative to give free, walk-in access to a wide range of academic articles and research in public libraries across the UK, launched this month with the support of Taylor & Francis Group. Through this service, library users will have access to… Read More
American Geophysical Union and Wiley launch new OA journal – Earth and Space Science - February 7, 2014
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) have announced the creation of a new all open access peer-reviewed journal, Earth and Space Science. Marking AGU's second new open access journal in the last 12 months, Earth… Read More
