Three learned society publishers to work with EIFL to explore OA agreements with publishers and library consortia in developing and transition economies - February 25, 2020
Three learned society publishers — the European Respiratory Society, IWA Publishing, and The Company of Biologists – will work with EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) to explore whether and how OA agreements might be piloted to support a… Read More
The MIT Libraries and three universities negotiate innovative agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery - February 25, 2020
The MIT Libraries has negotiated an innovative open-access agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) that allows MIT authors to make ACM articles freely available at no cost to them. It is the libraries’ first publisher contract completed under the principles… Read More
Kudos launches Research Briefings to help researchers target non-academic audiences - February 25, 2020
Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact through strategic communications management, has announced the launch of targeted Research Briefings, to assist researchers in engaging with audiences including the media, practitioners, educators, industry and policy makers. This new functionality is part of the latest release… Read More
Elsevier opens up Embase to Research4Life - February 24, 2020
Elsevier, a global leader in information analytics specialising in science and health, is making Embase, its biomedical database, available to Research4Life with immediate effect. Elsevier is a founding partner of Research4Life, a public-private partnership between the World Health Organisation, other United Nations… Read More
American Chemical Society and the Bibsam Consortium in Sweden sign ‘Read and Publish’ agreement - February 24, 2020
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Bibsam Consortium in Sweden have announced a transformative open access agreement that supports publishing for authors affiliated at 21 academic member institutions, including universities, university colleges and government-funded research institutions. Under the three-year agreement, authors… Read More
Frontiers and the Norwegian Institute for Water Research form OA publishing agreement - February 24, 2020
Open access publisher Frontiers and the Norwegian Institute for Water Research have formed an open access publishing agreement.
The Norwegian Institute for Water Research (Norsk institutt for vannforskning (NIVA)) supports their authors in publishing open access. As part of this support, the Norwegian Institute for… Read More
