Declaration on Open Access in Greece - June 25, 2018
Building on the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities and on the progress that has been achieved so far, OpenAIRE is pursuing the large-scale implementation of free online access to, and largely unrestricted use and re-use of scholarly research articles.… Read More
FAO implements OA policy for its knowledge products - June 21, 2018
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has implemented an Open Access policy, enabling maximal reach and ease of use for FAO knowledge products. FAO has been disseminating knowledge since its foundation in 1945, and its publications have been freely accessible in… Read More
EDP Sciences and Northwestern Polytechnical University partner to publish its principal journal - June 19, 2018
Not-for-profit publisher EDP Sciences has announced the open access publication of the first issue of the Journal of the Northwestern Polytechnical University. The journal was founded in 1957 and mainly publishes research results in aviation, aerospace, marine science and engineering technology. All articles are published in… Read More
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
