CABI provides free access to content on Global Health platform to combat coronavirus outbreak - February 12, 2020
CABI’s Global Health, the go-to bibliographic database for the study and practice of national, regional and international public health, is making relevant content available for free to support the international effort to fight the outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). The coronavirus content on Global Health… Read More
Duke University and Frontiers form open access publishing agreement - February 12, 2020
Duke University and Frontiers have announced an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing. Duke University supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, Duke University Libraries have entered an institutional agreement with Frontiers. Under the terms of this… Read More
Wiley updates resource page with free access to Coronavirus research - February 11, 2020
John Wiley & Sons Inc., a global leader in research and education, has joined the Wellcome Trust and other organisations in making research freely available during public health crises, such as the novel coronavirus ( 2019-nCoV) outbreak. Wiley has identified 54 relevant studies, which… Read More
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
