De Gruyter Brill expands Subscribe to Open program with 66 journals - October 3, 2025
De Gruyter Brill will expand its Subscribe to Open (S2O) program in 2026 by transitioning 66 additional journals to open access. The move will bring the total number of titles under the initiative, branded DG2O, to 124, marking one of the publisher’s largest expansions… Read More
ASA launches open access journal Anesthesiology Open - October 3, 2025
The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) has launched Anesthesiology Open, a new peer-reviewed, open access journal published by Wolters Kluwer. The journal will serve as a companion to ASA’s flagship publication Anesthesiology and expand opportunities for scholarly communication in the field. Led by executive… Read More
MDPI signs IOAP agreement with Mahasarakham University - September 29, 2025
MDPI Thailand has announced that Mahasarakham University (MSU) joined the Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP). MSU is the third partner in Thailand since the MDPI Bangkok Office began operations. Under this arrangement, researchers affiliated with MSU receive an IOAP discount on… Read More
AAAS statement in response to NIH public access policy - September 26, 2025
AAAS has submitted comments to the National Institutes of Health regarding its July 2025 proposal on ‘Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs.’ In its comments, AAAS commends NIH for tackling the rise in article processing charges (APCs) that scientific journal publishers now… Read More
FCCN supports DOAJ to advance Diamond open access in Portugal - September 25, 2025
FCCN, the digital services unit of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), has become a supporter of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) as part of efforts to strengthen Diamond open access publishing in Portugal. The collaboration will… Read More
JMIR Publications and Iowa State University shift to Flat-Fee Unlimited Open Access Publishing - September 24, 2025
JMIR Publications, an open-access digital health research publisher, and Iowa State University have updated their long-standing partnership, moving from a multi-payor model to JMIR’s Flat-Fee Unlimited Open Access Publishing model. Iowa State is the first research university in the United States to adopt this… Read More
Cambridge and Max Planck outline new model to advance open access book publishing - September 22, 2025
Cambridge University Press and the Max Planck Society have introduced a book sales agreement that combines evidence-based acquisition with open access funding to increase open access publishing and simplify processes for authors. The organizations stated that pairing open access with evidence-based acquisition allows the… Read More
WMU Libraries releases 2024 survey on open access publishing - September 22, 2025
Western Michigan University Libraries has released results from its 2024 Open Access Publishing Survey, led by Professors Michele Behr and Ed Eckel, examining experiences with open access publishing among Western faculty, staff, and graduate students. The survey had 192 responses collected from October through… Read More
Library roles in open science: collaborating for equitable publishing - September 19, 2025
Open science efforts aim to make research outputs freely accessible by 2030. Implementation depends on librarians who connect research, access, and infrastructure, and who now also advise on copyright, analyze research impact, and negotiate institutional publishing agreements. Their work influences open science practices locally and across broader academic networks. Frontiers… Read More
JMIR–Jisc flat-fee OA partnership adds six UK institutions - September 19, 2025
JMIR Publications and Jisc expanded their Flat-Fee Unlimited Open Access Partnership effective August 1, 2025, adding six UK institutions: the University of Manchester, University of Nottingham, Newcastle University, University of Leeds, University of Southampton, and University of Warwick. For affiliated researchers, the flat-fee arrangement… Read More
