Chiba University launches new academic resource collection, c-arc - December 4, 2018
Chiba University has launched a new academic resource collection named 'Chiba University Academic Resource Collections (c-arc)' which makes all content published and provided by Chiba University Libraries widely available on the web. This website is a new infrastructure to realise 'Digital Scholarship,' which promotes using digital… Read More
Cambridge University Press signs major OA deal with Bibsam - December 3, 2018
Academic Publisher Cambridge University Press has reached a major open access deal with higher education and research institutions in Sweden. The three-year 'read and publish' deal has been agreed with Bibsam, a consortium of 85 higher education and research institutions, led by the National Library… Read More
Plan S architects explain how grantees can abide by initiative’s rules by 2020 - November 28, 2018
The architects of Plan S, a contentious plan to tear down scholarly journals' paywalls in Europe, have laid out more details on how the initiative will work. In a recently published seven-page implementation guidance note, funders backing the plan, including the European Research Council, national agencies in France, the… Read More
BMJ launches new open access journal – World Journal of Pediatric Surgery - November 23, 2018
Healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has added a new title to its extensive portfolio of more than 60 specialist journals, with the launch of World Journal of Pediatric Surgery. The journal joins BMJ's other paediatric titles Archives of Disease in Childhood (ADC), ADC Fetal & Neonatal,… Read More
4open publishes its first article in chemistry - November 16, 2018
4open, a multi- and inter-disciplinary Open Access journal, has published its first article in chemistry. The article ‘Characterization and modelling of the polarization phenomenon to describe salt rejection by nanofiltration' by Yassine Mdemagh et al. is free to access on the 4open website. Presenting a… Read More
Frontiers and the Mid Sweden University form open access publishing agreement - November 14, 2018
Under the terms of the Sweden Open Access Publishing Framework Agreement, the Mid Sweden University (Mittuniversitetet) will cover Article Publishing Fees for eligible authors in any of the Frontiers journals. Eligible authors are corresponding authors of a given article who meet… Read More
SAGE Publishing to publish official journal of the American Epilepsy Society, Epilepsy Currents - November 9, 2018
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing will publish Epilepsy Currents beginning in 2019. The official journal of the American Epilepsy Society (AES), Epilepsy Currents is an open access journal that publishes commentaries on recent significant research published in major epilepsy and seizure disorder journals. Reaching an audience… Read More
USDA and CHORUS sign participation agreement - November 8, 2018
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has signed an agreement with CHORUS to expand public access to the results of its funded research. USDA's Public Access Plan calls for collaboration with partners to 'maximise the impact of the Federal research investment.'… Read More
Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation join European open-access plan - November 7, 2018
Two of the world’s largest biomedical research funders have backed a plan to make all papers resulting from work they fund open access on publication by 2020. On 5 November, the London-based Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington, announced… Read More
GeoScienceWorld adds GeoArabia archive to its Earth science collection - November 5, 2018
GeoScienceWorld (GSW) has announced the addition of the journal GeoArabia archive (1996 – 2015) and special publications to its collection of Earth science research. A quarterly peer-reviewed journal covering petroleum geoscience in the Middle East, GeoArabia was published by Gulf Petrolink in Bahrain from 1996 to… Read More
