Yale University and Frontiers Form Open Access Publishing Agreement - September 13, 2019
Yale University and Frontiers have formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing. Yale University supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, Yale University Library has entered an institutional agreement with Frontiers. Under the terms of… Read More
Scholastica announces sustainable OA publishing roadmap: Plan S and beyond - September 11, 2019
Scholastica, a peer review and open access (OA) publishing platform for academic journals, has announced the release of a Product Roadmap detailing new features to help journals comply with Plan S and sustainably meet core technical publishing standards. With these product improvements, Scholastica is making it… Read More
The Wellcome Trust and UK Research & Innovation back project to push OA ‘transparent pricing’ framework - September 9, 2019
The Wellcome Trust and national funding agency UK Research & Innovation are backing a project to push “more transparent” communication around the nature and prices of OA publishing services. The project is being run on behalf of the international research consortium cOAlition… Read More
Taylor & Francis partners with the Federation of European Materials Societies to launch a new OA journal – European Journal of Materials - September 5, 2019
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis and the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) have announced the launch of a new open-access journal, European Journal of Materials (EJM). EJM will publish high-quality research across the entire discipline of materials science. The journal was officially launched at… Read More
DOAJ and the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies collaborate on new pilot to encourage Finnish open access journals to apply to DOAJ - September 5, 2019
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV) are collaborating on a pilot project to encourage and help peer-reviewed open access (OA) journals published in Finland to be indexed in DOAJ. The Pilot runs from May 2019 to May… Read More
ScholarSphere: Measuring the impact of OA publishing - September 3, 2019
Users of ScholarSphere, Penn State’s institutional repository service, will receive monthly reports detailing the impact of the research products they have contributed, including preprints, posters, data sets, research software and other open-access scholarly products, effective September 1. Users will be provided updated statistics on the… Read More
Brill collaborates with Knowledge Unlatched to release 11 books in Open Access - September 3, 2019
International scholarly publisher Brill has announced the release of 11 books in Open Access in its most recent collaboration with library crowdsourcing platform Knowledge Unlatched. With topics including interdisciplinary research on trust, a comparative study of women and gender, and a… Read More
Engineering Reports – a new broad scope OA journal - August 27, 2019
Engineering Reports is a new Open Access journal dedicated to all aspects of engineering and computer science. The journal aims to help the research community face today’s fascinating and multifaceted challenges by offering a fast route to publication and the ability to share research with the… Read More
Frontiers and Sheffield Hallam University announce open access publishing agreement - August 15, 2019
The Sheffield Hallam University has established an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. Sheffield Hallam University Library supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, Sheffield Hallam University has entered an institutional agreement with Frontiers.… Read More
VIVA and Wiley sign progressive new agreement to drive Open Access - August 8, 2019
John Wiley and Sons Inc. and The Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA), Virginia’s academic library consortium, have signed a comprehensive agreement which combines open access publishing funds with their journal subscriptions - the first of its kind in North America. The two-year pilot utilises the… Read More
