Oxford University Press and Zhejiang University Press launch new, peer reviewed open-access journal – Food Quality and Safety - April 17, 2017
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP), together with Zhejiang University Press (ZUP) in Hangzhou, China, has launched a new, peer reviewed open-access journal - Food Quality and Safety (FQS). The editors-in-chief, Dr. Kunsong Chen (Zhejiang University) and Dr. Mondher Bouzayen (French National Institute for Agricultural… Read More
University of Cincinnati announces participation in Open Access Monograph Publishing Initiative - April 13, 2017
The University of Cincinnati is participating in a new initiative of the Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Association of American University Presses (AAUP). This endeavour will advance the wide dissemination… Read More
Wiley collaborates with the American Society of Plant Biologists and Society for Experimental Biology to launch new OA journal – Plant Direct - April 12, 2017
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the launch of Plant Direct, a new open access journal published in collaboration with the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) and the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB). Plant Direct is dedicated to establishing… Read More
More than 200 titles now available from KU Select 2016 - April 11, 2017
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the Open Access initiative supporting monographs in the humanities and social sciences, has unlatched over 200 titles from the recently-funded KU Select 2016 collection of 343 Humanities and Social Sciences e-books. This brings the total number of unlatched books from all KU collections… Read More
The Annual Review of Public Health is now freely available to read, reuse, and share - April 10, 2017
Non-profit publisher Annual Reviews has announced that the 2017 volume of the Annual Review of Public Health, which is currently online, is published open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BYSA) license. This influential content is now freely available to read, reuse, and share. Additionally,… Read More
New open access policy for all MIT authors - April 10, 2017
The MIT is launching a new way for authors of scholarly articles to legally hold onto rights to reuse and post their articles, and for others to more easily build on that work. As of this month, all MIT authors, including students, postdocs, and staff, can… Read More
Wiley launches new open access journal – Health Science Reports - April 6, 2017
Publisher John Wiley and Sons, Inc. has announced the launch of a new open access journal, Health Science Reports. Dedicated to providing exceptional author service through swift evaluation of existing reviews, Health Science Reports will publish peer-reviewed scientifically sound research across the… Read More
Zoologia joins Pensoft’s portfolio of open access peer-reviewed journals - April 4, 2017
Academic publisher Pensoft and the Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia (Brazilian Society of Zoology) have announced a new partnership. Under the deal, Zoologia, one of the most prestigious scientific journals in South America, will join Pensoft's portfolio of open access peer-reviewed journals. In 1982, Sociedade Brasileira… Read More
European Commission mulls over setting up publishing platform for scientists it funds - April 3, 2017
The European Commission, which spends over €10 billion annually on research, may follow two other big league funders, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust, and set up a publishing platform for the scientists it funds, in an attempt to accelerate the transition… Read More
InTechOpen added to OAPEN List of book publishers complying with Open Access requirements of funders - April 3, 2017
The Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) Library has introduced a new list of book publishers that comply with Open Access requirements for books resulting from research that was funded by the European Research Council (ERC), Wellcome Trust and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
