Dutch institutions to benefit from increased OA publication - March 11, 2019
Dutch institutions will benefit from increased open access publication and a growing collection of social science research as the result of a ‘read and publish’ deal agreed with Emerald for the next two years. Via the SURF consortium, Dutch universities will benefit from open access publication… Read More
Fourth VSNU eZine on open access: The importance of ‘international alignment’ - March 5, 2019
The goal of achieving 100% open access for scientific publications by 2020 is coming into view. This means many efforts are underway to achieve this aim. International alignment is the common thread for the future: it is becoming increasingly clear that there is a need for international cooperation in terms… Read More
American Physical Society launches OA journal – Physical Review Research - March 1, 2019
The American Physical Society (APS) has announced the launch of their fourteenth peer-reviewed journal, Physical Review Research (PRResearch). The title is the fourth fully open-access (OA) journal within the Physical Review suite of journals and will cover the full spectrum of… Read More
De Gruyter transforms Advances in Nonlinear Analysis to open access - February 27, 2019
Academic publisher De Gruyter has announced that its Advances in Nonlinear Analysis (ANA) is one of the ten journals that recently transformed from the subscription model to open access. ANA publishes high-quality research articles in the areas of nonlinear analysis and partial differential equations, and on… Read More
Frontiers and the University of Jyväskylä form OA publishing agreement - February 26, 2019
The University of Jyväskylä has established an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. The Open Science Centre of University of Jyväskylä supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, University of Jyväskylä has entered an… Read More
Frontiers and Hannover Medical School form OA publishing agreement - February 25, 2019
The Hannover Medical School (German: Medizinische Hochschule Hannover /MHH) has established an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. The Library of the Hannover Medical School supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, Hannover Medical… Read More
UC San Diego signs OA2020 Expression of Interest - February 22, 2019
The University of California San Diego has signed an Expression of Interest (EoI) to adopt the principles of Open Access 2020 (OA2020), an international effort to make all scholarly publications freely and immediately available to everyone by replacing the current costly subscription-based… Read More
TIB promotes OA transition in the field of electrochemistry - February 20, 2019
Since 2018, all the members of the German consortium of The Electrochemical Society (ECS) led by the Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) - German National Library of Science and Technology have benefited from a special publishing option: ECS grants all institutions participating in its… Read More
Brill expands Biology publishing portfolio with the addition of OA journal, Contributions to Zoology - February 15, 2019
International publisher Brill has announced the addition of the Open Access journal, Contributions to Zoology, to its Biology publishing portfolio. Brill has taken over the publishing responsibilities from Naturalis Biodiversity Center. Contributions to Zoology has published cutting edge zoological research since 1848. Focusing on all… Read More
Frontiers and Simon Fraser University form OA publishing agreement - February 14, 2019
Simon Fraser University (SFU) has established an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. The Simon Fraser University Library (SFU Library) supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, Simon Fraser University has entered an institutional… Read More
