ASTM International provides public access to standards used for COVID-19 public health emergency - March 25, 2020
Global standards organisation ASTM International is providing no-cost public access to a suite of two dozen important standards used in the production and testing of personal protective equipment to combat the COVID-19 (coronavirus) public health emergency. In an effort to support manufacturers, testing labs, healthcare professionals,… Read More
EDP Sciences calls for immediate submissions for new open access special issue from MMNP - March 25, 2020
EDP Sciences has issued a call for papers for a special issue to be published in the journal, Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena (MMNP). The open access special issue will address ‘Coronavirus: scientific insights and societal aspects.’ In view of the ongoing… Read More
European Commission grants contract for setting up an OA publishing platform - March 24, 2020
The European Commission has awarded a contract for the setting up of an open access publishing platform for scientific articles as a free service for Horizon 2020 beneficiaries. The launch of the ambitious EU open access initiative is planned for early 2021. The platform will be… Read More
Frontiers and Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences join to form open access publishing agreement - March 24, 2020
Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences and Frontiers have formed an open access publishing agreement. As part of this support, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences will cover Article Processing Charges (APCs) for eligible articles centrally for their eligible authors. The Inland Norway University of Applied… Read More
COVID-19: AIP Publishing enables free access to content on Scitation - March 23, 2020
AIP Publishing, a not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, is making their content freely available to scientists who are impacted, to support global research during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientists and students in affected regions can now register on Scitation.org to activate free full-text access to… Read More
Cengage offers free access to digital learning materials and other resources for those impacted by COVID-19 - March 20, 2020
Cengage, an education and technology company, is offering free access to its digital learning materials and platforms and other resources for those impacted by COVID-19. Cengage is providing free access to all Cengage platforms and eTexts through Cengage Unlimited, for college students at US campuses that… Read More
Wiley makes COVID-19 research freely available in publicly funded archives - March 19, 2020
John Wiley and Sons Inc., a global leader in research and education, is making all current and future research content and data on the COVID-19 Resource Site available to PubMed Central, the archive of biomedical and life science at the US National Institutes of Health’s National… Read More
Publishers provide scholarly content free on Project MUSE during COVID-19 crisis - March 19, 2020
In response to the challenges created by the global public health crisis of COVID-19, Project MUSE is supporting its participating publishers in making scholarly content temporarily available for free on its platform. With many higher education institutions moving into an exclusively online learning environment for… Read More
Cambridge University Press offers free access to cutting edge research on coronavirus - March 18, 2020
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press is offering 700 textbooks free to all, online access to higher education textbooks and coronavirus cutting edge research during the COVID-19 outbreak. In addition, existing customers are being offered free access to key reference works on request to help them… Read More
VitalSource and publishers come together to provide free access to eTextbooks to students affected by COVID-19 - March 17, 2020
VitalSource® has joined leading publishers to help ensure students affected by the COVID-19 pandemic will have free access to quality digital learning materials through the remainder of the Spring 2020 semester. Beginning March 16 through May 25, 2020, access to an expansive catalogue of eTexts… Read More
