SAGE’s new social and behavioral science research collection supports COVID-19 knowledge and response - March 16, 2020
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has curated research pertaining to coronavirus (COVID-19) and pandemics into a new, free-to-access research collection. The collection features the latest medical research related specifically to COVID-19 and a large collection of social and behavioral research to help individuals, communities, and leaders make… Read More
Wiley opens access to support educators, researchers and professionals amid growing COVID-19 impact - March 13, 2020
As a global leader in education and research, Wiley is helping aid the global community by supporting students, educators, researchers and professionals who are contending with the increasing impact of COVID-19. As a growing number of schools are being affected by COVID-19, Wiley is aiming to… Read More
PLOS Endorses Open Pharma Position Statement on Open Access - March 13, 2020
PLOS has joined a list of endorsers of the Position Statement on Open Access coordinated by Open Pharma, a group of pharmaceutical clients, publishers, patients, academics, regulators, editors, non-pharmaceutical funders, and societies. PLOS is a fully Open Access publisher, with all content… Read More
University of Aberdeen joins Jisc-Frontiers national open access framework agreement - March 12, 2020
The University of Aberdeen has formed an open access publishing agreement under the national agreement in the UK agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers. The University of Aberdeen supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this… Read More
Frontiers and the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research announce open access publishing agreement - March 11, 2020
Frontiers and the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA- Norsk institutt for naturforskning) have announced an open access publishing agreement. As part of agreement, NINA will cover Article Processing Charges (APCs) for eligible articles centrally for their eligible authors. Furthermore, the NINA will benefit from a… Read More
2020 volume of the Annual Review of Cancer Biology switches from gated to open access - March 10, 2020
Non-profit publisher Annual Reviews has announced that the 2020 volume of the Annual Review of Cancer Biology has been converted from gated to open access, with all articles published under a CC BY license. The back volumes, dating from 2017, are also freely available. The Annual… Read More
Knowledge Unlatched presents its Open Access Heroes 2020 - March 6, 2020
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the international initiative for Open Access (OA), has announced that it has grown the impact of OA titles through its collections. In 2019, the number of total interactions (downloads and views) has grown by 50 percent to more than three million and on… Read More
IWA Publishing partners with Knowledge Unlatched to make 19 book titles Open Access - March 6, 2020
IWA Publishing has announced that the partnership with Knowledge Unlatched (KU), a library crowd-funding initiative, they have made 19 Open Access books. Titles are available to download for free on the IWA Publishing website, the KU platform and the Directory of Open Access Books. Among the… Read More
UC Davis and Frontiers extend open access publishing agreement - March 5, 2020
Open access publisher Frontiers has announced that the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) have extended their institutional membership agreement for open access publishing. As part of the University of California, Davis’ support for its researchers in making their research more widely available, it held… Read More
CABI launches Open Access journal - March 2, 2020
CHAP partner CABI has announced the launch of a journal to publish original research and data in all fields related to agriculture and the biosciences. CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, the official journal of CABI, will be managed by BMC, part of Springer… Read More
