UC Libraries unveils fund pilot for open access publishing - February 4, 2013
The UC Libraries has announced new campus-based open access (OA) fund pilots to support UC faculty members who wish to make their research findings immediately and freely available to the public. Funded in part by the California Digital Library (CDL), these new OA funds will help… Read More
‘Journal of Library Administration’ releases special Issue on Digital Humanities - February 4, 2013
Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, is presenting a special issue from the Journal of Library Administration titled Digital Humanities in Libraries: New Models for Scholarly Engagement. The issue, guest edited by Barbara Rockenbach from Columbia University, examines the current and potential role… Read More
Portland Press invites authors to use Creative Commons Attribution licence for papers published in ASN NEURO and Bioscience Reports - February 4, 2013
Portland Press Limited, the not-for-profit publishing subsidiary of the Biochemical Society, has announced that it will invite authors to use the CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence for papers published in its two Gold Open Access journals - ASN NEURO and Bioscience Reports. This allows authors to… Read More
Elsevier and NWO announce collaboration with 5 year access agreement to Reviewer Finder and Scopus - February 1, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), have announced their collaboration with a 5 year access agreement to Elsevier's Reviewer Finder and Scopus, which will further improve NWO’s assessment process of research grant applications. As a leading research funding council in… Read More
Oxford University Press to publish new OA journal Conservation Physiology - February 1, 2013
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced the launch of Conservation Physiology, an open access journal, edited by a team of experts headed up by Steven Cooke, from Carleton University, Canada. The journal is published on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) which… Read More
Journal of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery joins BioMed Central - February 1, 2013
Journal of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, the official publication of the Canadian Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, has published its first articles following transfer to open access publisher BioMed Central. The journal publishes original research, reviews, commentaries and short reports on all aspects and… Read More
