PLOS ONE witnesses 25 percent fall in submissions - June 9, 2014
The number of papers published by one of the world's largest open-access journal, PLOS ONE, has plunged over the past few months after rising fairly steadily for years, notes Phil Davis, a scholarly publishing blogger. According to Davis, PLOS ONE may have become a less attractive… Read More
Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift goes advanced open access with Pensoft - June 4, 2014
One of the oldest entomological journals Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift has announced a new collaboration with Pensoft Publishers to step right into the future with an innovative publishing platform. The first issue for 2014 is now available in a novel open access, semantically… Read More
American Astronomical Society journals to stop print editions - June 3, 2014
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have decided that all AAS research journals published with IOP will become electronic only and will no longer print paper editions. This transition will take effect with the 2015 subscription year and affects… Read More
Nature Publishing Group and IECAS to launch Microsystems & Nanoengineering OA journal - May 29, 2014
Nature Publishing Group and the Institute of Electronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IECAS) have announced the 2015 launch of Microsystems & Nanoengineering. The online open access journal will go live on nature.com in March 2015, and begin accepting submissions towards… Read More
Scientific Data launches with first Data Descriptors - May 28, 2014
Open access publication Scientific Data has launched online, publishing its first eight Data Descriptors across fields including neuroscience, ecology and epidemiology. Scientific Data is the latest open research initiative from Nature Publishing Group. Data Descriptors, Scientific Data's article type, are peer-reviewed,… Read More
IOP Publishing and UK university libraries collaborate on open access offsetting pilot - May 28, 2014
Non-profit scientific publisher IOP Publishing (IOP), UK, has announced the launch of a three-year pilot project under which participating universities will be able to offset the majority of their expenditure on hybrid article publication charges (APCs) in IOP journals against their subscription and licence fees. … Read More
