Ex Libris provides free access to Coronavirus–related research funding and news - March 30, 2020
Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, is offering free access to all Research Professional® news coverage related to COVID-19 and relevant funding opportunities related to the pandemic through its Research Professional and Pivot funding databases. Free access will include: important coronavirus-related news,… Read More
Knowledge Unlatched renews two successful open access collections - March 27, 2020
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the international initiative for Open Access (OA), has announced renewals of two successful Open Access collections from 2017, both of which were launched as pilot projects for three-year funding models: Language Science Press (LSP) Books and KU Select 2017 HSS Journals. The two… Read More
Frontiers and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences form open access publishing agreement - March 26, 2020
Frontiers and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences have announced an open access publishing agreement. Western Norway University of Applied Sciences is supporting their authors in publishing open access. As part of this support, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences will cover Article Processing Charges (APCs)… Read More
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
