KU Selection Committee 2020 calls for new library members from across the globe - February 7, 2020
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) makes scholarly content freely available to everyone, while contributing to the development of the Open Access (OA) infrastructure. With support from around 600 libraries worldwide, KU has already made 1,500 books and 23 journals freely available in Open Access to over four million… Read More
The Company of Biologists and MALMAD announce three year transitional OA agreement - February 6, 2020
The Company of Biologists and MALMAD, an Israeli consortia of leading universities, have announced a three year transitional OA agreement from January 2020. The Company of Biologists are the first publisher to agree a Read and Publish deal with MALMAD that permits researchers at participating institutions… Read More
The Royal Society of Chemistry unveils new open access journal for materials science - February 5, 2020
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced the launch of Materials Advances, sister to Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C. The new journal will be free to read and free to publish in for two years. Materials Advances, which will… Read More
Akadémiai Kiadó expands Open Access program, relaunches over 60 journals on PubFactory - February 3, 2020
Scientific publisher Akadémiai Kiadó has moved the whole of their AKJournals program – over 60 peer-reviewed STM titles - onto Sheridan PubFactory’s online hosting platform as they pursue continued growth in Open Access and Open Science initiatives. Founded in 1828 by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,… Read More
Knowledge Unlatched announces plans to make 410 books and 13 journals Open Access in the course of 2020 - January 31, 2020
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the central platform for Open Access (OA) financing models, has announced the results of the 2019 pledging round, which ended in December 2019 and saw hundreds of libraries worldwide pledge support for OA models and initiatives offered by KU and its partners. In… Read More
Open Research Library launched, aims to bring together Open Access content in one platform - January 30, 2020
The Open Research Library (ORL) has officially launched at www.openresearchlibrary.org with the aim to bring together Open Access content in one seamless and easy-to-use platform. A number of leading players in the library and OA community have joined forces to support the ORL for the… Read More
Frontiers and the Norwegian Directorate for ICT and Joint Services in Higher Education and Research sign Open Access Framework Agreement - January 29, 2020
Open access publisher Frontiers and the Norwegian Directorate for ICT and Joint Services in Higher Education & Research (Unit) have signed a landmark national agreement. The terms of the agreement will simplify the publishing process for Norwegian researchers who publish in Frontiers’ journals. The deal includes… Read More
Berghahn Books to flip thirteen anthropology journals to open access in 2020 - January 28, 2020
Scholarly and academic publisher Berghahn Books will publish thirteen core anthropology journals as open access starting with their 2020 volumes under the subscribe-to-open model (S2O). The move is being hailed as the largest concerted disciplinary journals flip to open access since SCOAP3.… Read More
Wiley offers free access to Coronavirus research to aid relief efforts - January 27, 2020
John Wiley & Sons Inc., a global leader in research and education, will provide free access to all articles related to the coronavirus in support of the outbreak relief efforts in China. Wiley has identified 54 relevant articles. These important pieces of literature will remain free… Read More
CSIC and IntechOpen partner to encourage Open Access publishing in Spain - January 21, 2020
CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), the Spanish Research Council, and IntechOpen are working together to encourage Open Access publishing in Spain. In a new agreement, CSIC affiliated academics and research centres will benefit from heavily discounted publication fees and IntechOpen’s vast experience in Open Access… Read More
