Frontiers and the Helmholtz Association in deal to expand OA publishing agreement - January 30, 2018
Frontiers and the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren) have established an agreement entailing the inclusion of three new members of the Helmholtz Association in an agreement on open access publishing. Building on an agreement established in 2015 comprising a consortium of… Read More
Frontiers forms open access publishing agreement with Queen’s University Belfast - January 29, 2018
Frontiers and Queen's University Belfast have formed an institutional agreement for open access publishing. The library of the Queen's University Belfast covers article-processing charges (APCs) for eligible authors affiliated with the University. Under this agreement affiliated eligible authors publishing in any of the (currently 60)… Read More
EDP Sciences joins the Initiative for Open Citations - January 25, 2018
Not-for-profit publisher EDP Sciences has joined the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties, to promote the availability of data on citations that are structured, separable, and open. I4OC project promotes the unrestricted availability of citation data… Read More
Frontiers in Built Environment launches new specialty section on Computational Methods in Structural Engineering - January 23, 2018
Frontiers in Built Environment has announced the launch of a new specialty section on Computational Methods in Structural Engineering. The section is led by two Specialty Chief Editors, Associate Professors George Tsiatas and Vagelis Plevris of the University of Patras and Oslo Metropolitan University, respectively. … Read More
Dr. Matthias Wahls appointed as new Business Development Manager of ARPHA Journal Publishing Platform - January 23, 2018
ARPHA, a product of Pensoft, has announced that Netherlands-based independent publishing consultant Dr. Matthias Wahls recently joined ARPHA Journal Publishing Platform as the venture's new Business Development Manager. Bringing in extensive expertise from his previous appointments with key players in the academic publishing market, alongside… Read More
Pensoft integrates its journals with Catalogue of Life - January 22, 2018
Scholarly publisher Pensoft has implemented a new integration with the global organisation Catalogue of Life (CoL), so that it joins in the effort to encourage authors publishing global taxonomic review in any of the publisher's journals to upload their taxonomic contributions to the database. Whenever… Read More