IOP Publishing launches Journal of Physics Communications - March 24, 2017
IOP Publishing has announced the launch of Journal of Physics Communications, a new multidisciplinary open access journal, offering researchers an accelerated and innovative way to publish their work. The journal welcomes the submission of papers from all areas of research relating to physics. It has… Read More
De Gruyter sponsors Directory of Open Access Books - March 23, 2017
Academic publisher De Gruyter is providing sponsorship for the Directory of Open Access Books to celebrate the launch of the De Gruyter Open Access Book Library on degruyter.com which is intended to draw attention to the growing number and growing importance of… Read More
University Library at UC Berkeley signs the OA2020 Expression of Interest - March 21, 2017
The University Library at UC Berkeley has signed the OA2020 Expression of Interest, in collaboration with UC Davis and UC San Francisco. OA2020 is an international movement, led by the Max Planck Digital Library in Munich, to convert the entire corpus of… Read More
AAU, ARL, AAUP to launch Open Access Monograph Publishing Initiative - March 17, 2017
The Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and Association of American University Presses (AAUP) are implementing a new initiative to advance the wide dissemination of scholarship by humanities and humanistic social sciences faculty members… Read More
The IET launches new OA journal – Engineering Biology - March 16, 2017
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has launched a new fully open access engineering journal, Engineering Biology. The new online-only journal is focused on the application of engineering science and practice to the design of biological devices and systems for a wide range of fields… Read More
EDP Sciences to publish OA journal BioMedicine - March 15, 2017
Not-for-profit publisher EDP Sciences has announced that it is now publishing the fully Open Access journal, BioMedicine. EDP officially took over publication of the journal at in the beginning of 2017. The first issue published by EDP Sciences is available since beginning of March 2017. … Read More
Thieme launches new OA journal for chemists – SynOpen - March 14, 2017
Medical and scientific publisher Thieme Publishing Group has launched SynOpen, a new open access journal. The new English-language journal reports on current research results in the field of chemical synthesis. The journal gives interested authors in chemistry the option to publish their articles in open access… Read More
First batch of titles from KU Select 2016 collection now been unlatched - March 13, 2017
The first batch of titles from the KU Select 2016 collection has now been unlatched and can be downloaded by anyone, anywhere. KU Select 2016 is a collection of 343 Humanities and Social Sciences titles from 54 publishers. Around 270 libraries and consortia throughout the world… Read More
More STM publishers select CCC’s RightsLink platform to handle APCs for open access articles - March 8, 2017
Global licensing and content solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has announced that the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Bone & Joint Publishing, and IWA Publishing have chosen to manage Article Publishing Charges (APCs) for their Open Access publications using CCC's RightsLink® platform.… Read More
Marking the 15th Anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative - March 3, 2017
This year marks the 15th Anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), a landmark meeting convened in Budapest by the Open Society Foundations (OSF) that aimed to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available. The participants… Read More
