F1000 expands Open Research Africa platform to all African-based authors - April 1, 2025
F1000 and the Science for Africa Foundation have announced a major expansion of Open Research Africa (ORA), removing funding restrictions for authors. Effective immediately, researchers based in Africa can submit articles to ORA regardless of their funding source, significantly broadening access… Read More
European Institutions advance Rights Retention policies for open access - April 1, 2025
A new report from Project Retain highlights the evolving landscape of institutional rights retention policies across Europe, examining strategic approaches and challenges in ten countries. The findings build on insights from Opening Knowledge: Retaining Rights and Licensing in Europe 2023 and emphasize the growing momentum toward open… Read More
Dr. Madison Ngafeeson appointed Editor-in-Chief of IJBDAH - April 1, 2025
IGI Global Scientific Publishing has announced the appointment of Dr. Madison N. Ngafeeson, an analytics professor and Director of the Business Data Analytics Program at Palm Beach Atlantic University, Florida, as the new Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare (IJBDAH). In… Read More
Emerald Publishing backs India’s One Nation One Subscription initiative - March 28, 2025
Emerald Publishing has announced its support for India’s One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) initiative, a program designed to provide equitable access to international scholarly journals and articles for students, faculty, researchers, and scientists across 6,300 government-managed higher education institutions and R&D centers. The ONOS scheme grants access… Read More
APA Publishing expands Digital Books Collection with extensive back catalog - March 28, 2025
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) Publishing has expanded its digital offerings with a comprehensive back catalog spanning the past 40 years, providing clinicians, mental health professionals, residents, researchers, and students in psychiatry and allied fields with seamless access to hundreds of titles. The newly launched collections include… Read More
APS expands open access with Subscribe to Open for 2025 - March 28, 2025
The American Physiological Society (APS) has successfully implemented its Subscribe to Open (S2O) model, making 10 of its primary research journals fully open access in 2025. With continued support from institutional and library partners, APS has broadened free, unrestricted access to high-quality physiological research while reinforcing its… Read More
