New Phytologist Trust partners with John Wiley & Sons to launch new OA journal – Plants, People, Planet - July 25, 2017
The New Phytologist Trust, in partnership with publisher John Wiley & Sons has announced the launch of a new cross disciplinary Open Access journal - Plants, People, Planet, led by Professor Simon Hiscock (University of Oxford, UK and Director of the Oxford Botanic Garden and Harcourt… Read More
BMJ launches new open access healthcare improvement journal – BMJ Open Quality - July 18, 2017
Healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has launched BMJ Open Quality, an open access journal dedicated to publishing high quality, peer reviewed healthcare improvement work. The journal welcomes articles covering original research, local, national and international quality improvement (QI) projects, value-based healthcare improvement initiatives and educational improvement… Read More
Emerald Publishing’s climate change title to flip to fully OA - July 18, 2017
Academic publisher Emerald Publishing has announced the conversion of the Impact Factor-ranked International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management (IJCCSM) to a fully Open Access (OA) journal. IJCCSM will be the first Emerald subscription journal to flip to a fully OA journal, effective from… Read More
Biodiversity data journal Check List joins Pensoft’s open access portfolio - July 17, 2017
Scholarly publisher Pensoft has announced journal Check List as the latest biodiversity-themed title to join its peer-reviewed and open access family. Its first issue in collaboration with Pensoft is now published on the journal's new website. Check List is an online open access journal launched… Read More
Wiley and International AIDS Society announce new publishing partnership - July 14, 2017
Publisher John Wiley and Sons, Inc. has announced a new partnership with the International AIDS Society (IAS) to publish their fully open access journal - Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS). JIAS is well-established with an Impact Factor of 6.296, and all articles in the… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. announces 2018 launch of new open access journal, Systems Medicine - July 13, 2017
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers has announced the launch of Systems Medicine: Journal of Medical Systems Biology and Network Medicine, a new peer-reviewed open access journal that will address the urgent need for authoritative information on systems medicine and the integration of personalised medicine in clinical… Read More
Thieme and Schattauer launch new OA journal – TH Open - July 5, 2017
Medical and scientific publishing house Thieme Publishing Group has joined forces with Schattauer Publishers to launch a new open access journal: TH Open. The journal will provide updates on the latest developments in vascular medicine, complementing Schattauer's established subscription title Thrombosis and Haemostasis. The new… Read More
EDP Sciences launches new multi- and inter-disciplinary OA journal – 4open - June 29, 2017
EDP Sciences has announced the launch of a new multi- and inter-disciplinary Open Access journal: 4open. 4open promotes excellence and rigour in academic scholarship, disseminating high quality, original research in all subjects across the STEM domain. The journal has resolute commitments to academic excellence and… Read More
IAEA and SCOAP3 partner to promote open access to particle physics journals - June 29, 2017
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently signed a partnership with the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) as a result of which researchers from around the world will soon have increased free access to a wealth of… Read More
European Hematology Association launches new journal – HemaSphere - June 22, 2017
The European Hematology Association, a Europe-based association of hematologists, has launched its new journal HemaSphere with publisher Wolters Kluwer at the 22nd Annual Congress of EHA in Madrid. HemaSphere will be under the editorial leadership of Co-Editors-in-Chief, Dr Andreas Engert of University… Read More