Western University joins PeerJ’s Three Year Publishing Memberships program - April 21, 2022
The Western University, Canada, has joined PeerJ’s Three-Year Fixed Term Memberships Program. Western is the latest institution to sign up for the program which offers an innovative alternative to Article Processing Charges (APC) for Open Access. Under the agreement, the cost of Three-Year Memberships… Read More
Brill acquires Wageningen Academic Publishers, strengthens its portfolio in Biology and Open Access - April 18, 2022
Academic publisher Brill has reached an agreement with the shareholders of Wageningen Academic Publishers B.V. (WAP) to acquire all shares in the business. WAP is a cutting-edge, international academic publisher in the fields of Animal Science, Food and Health Science, Agriculture, Environment, and Agribusiness.… Read More
FIZ Karlsruhe and State Archives of Baden-Württemberg sign cooperation agreement to set new standards for scientific archiving - April 18, 2022
The digital transformation offers great opportunities for archives, but also presents them with considerable challenges. After all, using archives in the digital age means researching and processing archived material online from any location at any time. To achieve this, however, a wide range of prerequisites must be created for the… Read More
Standards Development Organization partners with CCC to find new markets for content - April 18, 2022
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has announced that the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the world’s leading organization for the preparation and publication of international standards for electrotechnology, is now offering document delivery through CCC’s RightFind.… Read More
EBSCO Information Services and Dataly Tech partner to increase open source options for libraries - April 15, 2022
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Dataly Tech, an IT services company, have partnered to support libraries adopting the FOLIO Library Services Platform (LSP). EBSCO and Dataly Tech with the EBSCO FOLIO team will collaborate to provide reliable local… Read More
OCLC and Google partner to connect web searchers directly to library collections - April 15, 2022
OCLC and Google are working together to link directly from books discovered through Google Search to print book records in the catalogs of hundreds of U.S. libraries. This feature is part of Google’s ongoing effort to connect people to their local libraries through Google… Read More
Hindawi announces first partnership journal with a Chinese partner - April 13, 2022
Hangzhou Aimeida BioTech Co., Ltd., an innovation-oriented organization, focusing on research, technology consulting, and development in relevant areas, and open access publisher Hindawi have recently entered into a publishing partnership agreement whereby the latter will publish and develop a fully open access journal – Advanced Gut &… Read More
Frontiers acquires Oncology Reviews journal from PAGEPress - April 11, 2022
Open-access publisher Frontiers has acquired the journal Oncology Reviews from PAGEPress. The acquisition marks a significant milestone for Frontiers. It is the first journal the publisher has acquired since it was founded in 2007. Oncology Reviews is also Frontiers’ first proprietary Reviews journal, aiming… Read More
Canadian Science Publishing joins the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association - April 11, 2022
Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) has announced its membership in the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA). CSP’s application to the OASPA Membership Committee highlights its evolving achievements and collected efforts toward being a publisher of choice. These efforts have also positioned CSP to meet… Read More
Wiley journal renewal now includes open access publishing options - April 7, 2022
As part of Washington State University Libraries’ renewal of their Wiley journal contract, WSU authors can now have articles published in roughly 1,400 different Wiley journals using an open-access license without paying an article processing charge (APC). The service is available until the end… Read More
