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
23,000 peer-reviewed articles from Dutch authors now available in open access - October 30, 2018
The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) has published the latest number of open access articles (covering 2017) at the international open access week. Almost 23,000 peer-reviewed articles from Dutch authors are openly available for everyone. In late 2013, State Secretary Dekker formulated objectives… Read More
Oxford University Press to publish Aesthetic Surgery Journal Open Forum - October 30, 2018
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced the launch of Aesthetic Surgery Journal Open Forum (ASJOF), an open access, peer-reviewed, international journal focusing on the latest developments and practical, clinical advances in aesthetic surgery and cosmetic treatments. Published on behalf of The American Society for… Read More
International Open Access Week 2018 – Thieme presents its OA portfolio - October 29, 2018
Medical and scientific publishing house the Thieme Group has continuously expanded their open access offering, with 13 journals dedicated to various medical fields added this year alone. The open access portfolio meanwhile comprises more than 40 international journals. Moreover, almost all of Thieme's 170 journal titles… Read More
National Kidney Foundation and Elsevier launch new OA journal – Kidney Medicine - October 26, 2018
The National Kidney Foundation (NKF), and Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, have announced the launch of Kidney Medicine, a peer-reviewed, open access journal focused on clinical research in nephrology and hypertension. Led by Editor-in-Chief Dr. Daniel E.… Read More
Frontiers and the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg form OA publishing agreement - October 26, 2018
Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg; MLU) has established an institutional agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. The University Library of the MLU Halle-Wittenberg supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, MLU has entered into… Read More
Wiley and Hindawi expand open access publishing collaboration to add four new journals - October 24, 2018
Global publisher Wiley and Hindawi have expanded their open access publishing collaboration. This announcement adds four new journals to the nine currently in the program. With open access becoming the shared vision of a number of governments worldwide and a particular… Read More
Cambridge University Press to move four of its journals to Gold Open Access - October 24, 2018
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has announced that it is moving four more of its journals from a traditional subscription model to Gold Open Access in a further demonstration of its commitment to the development of a sustainable, more open future for academic publishing. The… Read More
