National Science Review to now publish as a fully Open Access journal - January 6, 2020
Academic publisher Oxford University Press and China Science Press have announced that the National Science Review (NSR) will now publish as a fully Open Access journal. Launched in 2014, NSR is a scientific journal published in English under the auspices of the Chinese Academy of Sciences… Read More
Wiley and Bibsam sign OA agreement to include 45 Swedish Institutions - December 18, 2019
John Wiley & Sons Inc., a global leader in research and education, and Bibsam, a consortium of 85 higher education and research institutions, have announced a combined open access and subscription agreement that will take effect January 1, 2020. This 3-year agreement will provide 45 participating… Read More
Springer Nature urges cOAlition S not to lose the opportunity Transformative Journals offer to speed up the transition to OA - December 17, 2019
As the largest OA publisher, and the publisher that first floated the idea of Transformative Journals, Springer Nature is appealing to cOAlition S in an open letter not to lose the opportunity Transformative Journals offer to speed up the transition to OA. Unless changes are made… Read More
FIZ Karlsruhe to start transforming zbMATH information service into an OA platform - December 17, 2019
The Federal Republic of Germany and the Federal States are to support FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure in a strategic paradigm shift - zbMATH (Zentralblatt für Mathematik), the world-renowned mathematical information service that up to now has been available for a charge, will… Read More
IOP Publishing unveils new OA journal – Nano Express - December 13, 2019
IOP Publishing has announced the launch of Nano Express, a new open access addition to its materials science portfolio, which will compliment Nanotechnology and Nano Futures as a trio of connected titles dedicated to nanoscience. Nano Express will cover all areas of nanoscale science and technology… Read More
IOP Publishing unveils new open access journal – IOP SciNotes - December 11, 2019
IOP Publishing is introducing IOP SciNotes, a new peer-reviewed, open access journal that will enable researchers across the physical and environmental sciences to publish shorter research results and other related outputs, which may not be suited to the traditional full-length journal article format. With IOP SciNotes,… Read More
Jisc and IOP Publishing announce new transitional open access agreement - December 10, 2019
Researchers at up to 58 UK universities will soon benefit from a new open access (OA) ‘read and publish’ agreement between Jisc and IOP Publishing (IOPP), a pioneer in open access physics publishing. The four-year agreement begins January 1, 2020. It enables… Read More
Frontiers and University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf announce OA publishing agreement - December 10, 2019
The University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf / UKE) has established an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. The University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf has entered… Read More
Jisc and five UK-based society publishers sign pilot transitional OA agreements - December 9, 2019
Jisc and five UK-based society publishers have signed pilot transitional open access (OA) agreements, now available to UK universities. The agreements are the first to result from work undertaken by Jisc Collections, negotiating with smaller publishers to offer a sustainable transition to OA. The Microbiology Society,… Read More
Natures Sciences Sociétés journal to be published in open access from January 2020 - December 4, 2019
The Natures Sciences Sociétés (NSS) journal will be published in open access from January 2020. The journal will be hosted and produced by EDP Sciences, which is actively supporting the transition of journals to open access. Articles will be freely accessible and published under a Creative… Read More
