Gale and Libraries Connect Ohio partner to provide free access to new digital resources - December 20, 2018
Gale, a Cengage company, and Libraries Connect Ohio (LCO) have partnered to provide more than 2,500 school, academic and public libraries throughout Ohio with free access to Gale digital resources through LCO and its partners - OhioLINK, OPLIN and InfOhio. These new resources provide Ohio residents… Read More
Emerald Open Research now open for submissions - December 11, 2018
Academic publisher Emerald Publishing has announced that its new open access platform, Emerald Open Research, is now open for submissions. Created in partnership with F1000, the platform, which is new and pioneering for the social sciences community, offers authors immediate publication followed by transparent open… Read More
OUP and the Max Planck Society announce combined open access and subscription deal - December 10, 2018
Academic publisher Oxford University Press and the Max Planck Society have announced a new two-year deal, which includes a significant open access element, to provide access to OUP's prestigious journal collection for all Max Planck Society members. The deal comes into… Read More
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
