Frontiers and the GFZ Helmholtz Centre Potsdam form OA publishing agreement - August 28, 2018
The GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences (Helmholtz Centre Potsdam) has formed an open access publishing agreement with Frontiers. The GFZ has become the 13th participating member in an agreement for open access publishing between the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren) and… Read More
Advances in Polymer Technology joins Wiley-Hindawi partnership - August 23, 2018
Hindawi has announced that Advances in Polymer Technology has become the tenth journal to join the Wiley-Hindawi partnership. Through the partnership, all submissions will continue to undergo robust peer review - now handled via Hindawi's Manuscript Tracking System - and all accepted papers will be published… Read More
Frontiers and the Friedrich-Schiller- Universität Jena announce OA publishing agreement - August 22, 2018
The Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Friedrich Schiller University Jena; FSU) has established an institutional agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. The Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek (Thuringian University and State Library; ThULB) serves as the research library for the FSU. Via ThULB, the FSU supports its researchers… Read More
CHORUS in deal with USAID to expand public access to results of its funded research - August 17, 2018
Non-profit organisation CHORUS has announced an agreement with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to expand public access to the results of its funded research. USAID's public access plan was released in November 2016 and is designed to ensure effective… Read More
Frontiers and the Technische Universität Berlin announce OA publishing agreement - August 2, 2018
The Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) has established an institutional agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. The University Library of the TU Berlin supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, TU Berlin has entered into an institutional agreement with
MDPI to help scholars publish OA at no cost, announces pilot project with the Technical University of Dresden and the Saxon State and University Library Dresden - July 26, 2018
Academic open-access publisher Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) has announced a pilot project with the Technical University of Dresden (TUD) and the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) to help scholars publish Open Access at no cost. The program will last for 6 months, from… Read More
IET expands portfolio of fully gold open access journals, Biosurface and Biotribology joins IET Open programme - July 23, 2018
The journal Biosurface and Biotribology is now part of a growing portfolio of fully gold open access journals in the IET Open programme. Covering the latest research topics, the Institution of Engineering and Technology's (IET) fully open access journals showcase the best in engineering science and… Read More
SAGE Publishing launches OA monograph program across the humanities and social sciences - July 19, 2018
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has expanded its open access program to include monographs, scholarly works that present academic research on a single topic, in-depth. Titled SAGE Open Long Form: Open Access Monographs, the new program will include works that have undergone several layers of review and… Read More
Wolters Kluwer to publish Journal of Bio-X Research - July 3, 2018
Wolters Kluwer Health will begin publishing the Journal of Bio-X Research under its Lippincott portfolio. The first issue of the Journal of Bio-X Research, the latest open access journal of the Chinese Medical Association (CMA), is now available. The international journal seeks to publish original,… Read More
VSNU and Wolters Kluwer reach open access deal - June 26, 2018
As part of its negotiations with Wolters Kluwer to extend the contract for legal and fiscal professional literature, the VSNU has agreed open-access terms. The 27 academic journals in Wolters Kluwer's collection of otherwise mainly professional literature will be subject to new… Read More
