BMJ launches new OA paediatrics journal – BMJ Paediatrics Open - June 13, 2017
Healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has added a new title to its expanding portfolio of more than 60 specialist journals, with the launch of BMJ Paediatrics Open. BMJ Paediatrics Open is a fully open access, international multidisciplinary journal, dedicated to publishing original research, clinical reviews, and protocols… Read More
SAGE Publishing partners with SEMPRE to launch Music & Science journal - June 9, 2017
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has partnered with the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) to launch a new open access journal Music & Science, providing a platform for engaged debate and insight into music research from a wide range of scientific perspectives. Scientific… Read More
Oxford University Press partners with the British Society for Rheumatology to publish a new OA journal – Rheumatology Advances in Practice - June 7, 2017
Academic publisher Oxford University Press has announced its partnership with the British Society for Rheumatology to publish a new, peer-reviewed open-access journal - Rheumatology Advances in Practice, beginning June 2017. Rheumatology Advances in Practice will complement the well-established journal Rheumatology to reflect the increasing breadth… Read More
Wiley launches new OA journal in collaboration with Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery - May 18, 2017
Publisher Wiley has launched a new open access journal, Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, published in collaboration with the Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery (JSGS). Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery is an international, peer-reviewed title publishing high-quality research from across the fields of surgery, oncology, gastroenterology and hepatology.… Read More
Cambridge University Press launches new OA journal – Personality Neuroscience - May 18, 2017
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has announced the launch of a new Open Access journal, Personality Neuroscience. The journal aims to be the primary outlet for publications on the neuroscience of individual differences. Personality neuroscience is a new field, emerging in the past ten years,… Read More
InTechOpen launches new publishing format – InTechOpen Compacts - May 16, 2017
Traditionally, scholarly publishing consisted of two main publication outputs - the journal article and the scholarly monograph. Journal articles and monographs differ not only in terms of manuscript length and research type, but over time, monographs became the preferred format for publishing research in Social Sciences and Humanities, while journal… Read More
UCL Press to expand textbook publishing programme, calls for proposals - May 9, 2017
UCL Press has announced that it is expanding its textbook publishing programme, following the successful open access publications of Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Key Concepts in Public Archaeology. It now invites applications from UCL academics to submit textbook proposals for any discipline taught… Read More
VSNU and Oxford University Press unable to reach new agreement for access to academic journals - May 8, 2017
The universities in the Netherlands and Oxford University Press (OUP) have been unable to reach a new agreement for access to academic journals. The key priority in the negotiations for VSNU (the Association of Universities in the Netherlands) was facilitating the transition… Read More
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) launches geolocation data for its Open Access ebooks - May 4, 2017
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the Open Access (OA) initiative supporting monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences, has announced the launch of geolocation data for its Open Access ebooks. There are always concerns whether a university library is investing in the right content. Yet, how to… Read More
CERN and the American Physical Society sign agreement for SCOAP3 - April 28, 2017
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the American Physical Society (APS) have signed an agreement for SCOAP3 – the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics. Under this agreement, high-energy physics articles published in… Read More
