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
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
