BMC series expands into engineering, launches new journal – BMC Biomedical Engineering - June 14, 2018
BMC Biomedical Engineering, a new open access, peer-reviewed journal is now open for submissions and with it the BMC series enters for the first time a new subject area: engineering. This is the first of two newly launched journals in the BMC series. 2018 has… Read More
Frontiers and the National Library of Sweden sign Open Access Framework Agreement - June 1, 2018
Under the national agreement signed between Frontiers and the National Library of Sweden (NLS), on behalf of the organisations participating in the Bibsam Consortium, Swedish researchers can now publish their articles in Frontiers' open access journals through a simplified process that covers publishing fees. The… Read More
The Optical Society to launch new gold OA journal, OSA Continuum - May 31, 2018
The Optical Society (OSA) has announced that it will begin publishing a new open access journal, OSA Continuum, in September 2018. The new Journal will accept contributions from the broad optics and photonics community and will provide rapid dissemination of research articles meeting OSA's high standards… Read More
SAGE Publishing and the International Headache Society launch new OA journal – Cephalalgia Reports - May 30, 2018
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has launched an open access journal, Cephalalgia Reports, in association with the International Headache Society (IHS). Cephalalgia Reports will join its sister journal Cephalalgia, which has been published by SAGE and the IHS since 2010. Developing on Cephalalgia's aims, the journal… Read More
JAMA Network launches open-access journal – JAMA Network Open - May 29, 2018
The inaugural issue of JAMA Network Open™ has been published, with articles exemplifying the breadth of areas that readers should come to expect to see covered in the new journal - oncology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, paediatrics and cardiology. The open-access journal, announced last year, is the 13th journal… Read More
Brill Publishers launches new OA journal – Bridging Humanities - May 25, 2018
Academic publisher Brill Publishers has launched a new Open Access journal: Bridging Humanities - Platform for Alternatives Methodologies. This will be launched during a special meeting at Impact Hub on June 7, 2018. Bridging Humanities is a peer reviewed, interdisciplinary and multi-area online publication. The… Read More
Swedish universities and research institutions cancel agreement with Elsevier over open access - May 18, 2018
Swedish universities and research institutions will reportedly not renew their current contract with publisher Elsevier. The Bibsam Consortium, which represents 85 higher education and research institutions in the country, has said that its current agreement with Elsevier would not be renewed after June 30, 2018. The… Read More
LSE and Ubiquity Press unveil new open access publishing platform - May 18, 2018
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has unveiled a new open access publishing platform in partnership with Ubiquity Press. LSE Press, managed through the LSE Library, will provide a platform for high quality, open access research in the social sciences; supporting the… Read More
Bioscientifica launches new open-access journal – Vascular Biology - May 16, 2018
Bioscientifica, a learned society-owned publisher, has announced the launch of a new open-access journal - Vascular Biology. Led by Editor-in-Chief Paulo Madeddu, Professor of Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine at Bristol CardioVascular Centre, and an esteemed editorial board of leaders in the field, Vascular Biology will see… Read More
British Ecological Society in partnership with John Wiley & Sons launches new international journal – People and Nature - May 14, 2018
The British Ecological Society (BES), in partnership with its publisher John Wiley & Sons, has announced the launch of a new international journal, People and Nature. People and Nature is an open access journal dedicated to publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed work from research… Read More
