BioMed Central’s Open Access Advocacy Award recognises European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda - July 24, 2014
Open access publisher BioMed Central has presented its Open Access Advocacy Award for 2014 to Neelie Kroes, the European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda. Kroes has been the Dutch member of the European Commission for almost ten years and has been responsible for the… Read More
Wiley and Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) partner to launch new Open Access journal - July 23, 2014
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Inc. and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) have announced the launch of the Society's first fully open access journal - Geo: Geography and Environment. Geo positions the RGS-IBG and Wiley as world leaders in the publication of geographical research. Geo… Read More
Springer celebrates open access milestone - July 22, 2014
STM publisher Springer is celebrating the milestone of 200,000 open access articles published to date. The articles, published across BioMed Central, and SpringerOpen are freely available and published under a Creative Commons (CC) license. Springer now has 417 open access journals publishing across all areas… Read More
Elsevier Conference Global Food Security honoured at 2014 UK Conference Award ceremony - July 22, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that for the second year running an Elsevier Conference was honoured at the prestigious UK Conference Awards ceremony held annually in London. Elsevier was awarded 'Mark of Excellence' in the Best New Product category for its 1st International Conference on… Read More
Elsevier launches Open Access journal Burnout Research - July 18, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of open access journal Burnout Research. Professor Christina Maslach of the University of Berkeley, California, serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. Burnout has proven its global significance and impact over the last years,… Read More
Elsevier launches new OA journal – Bone Reports - July 17, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of a new open access journal - Bone Reports. Prof. Peter R. Ebeling from Monash University serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. Prof. Ebeling is also Senior Editor for sister journal Bone. As sister publication to the highly… Read More