Delta Think launches Delta Think Investigations, a set of execution-focused, data-driven analyses of relevant and timely topics in scholarly communications - December 9, 2016
Delta Think, a consulting and advisory firm focused on innovation and growth in scholarly communications, has announced the debut of Delta Think Investigations, a set of execution-focused, data-driven analyses of relevant and timely topics in scholarly communications. Investigations will offer actionable insights to support users in… Read More
Wiley, the European Society of Evolutionary Biology and The Society for the Study of Evolution launch new OA publication – Evolution Letters - December 8, 2016
Publisher John Wiley and Sons, Inc., the European Society of Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), and The Society for the Study of Evolution™ (SSE) have announced the launch of a new open access publication, Evolution Letters. Evolution Letters features cutting-edge new research in all areas of Evolutionary… Read More
Wolters Kluwer to publish American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ official OA journal - December 6, 2016
Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, and The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), the global leader in orthopaedic surgical education, have announced the launch of the AAOS’s official open access journal, JAAOS: Global Research &… Read More
American Society of Hematology to debut new OA journal Blood Advances at 58th Annual Meeting in San Diego - November 30, 2016
American Society of Hematology has announced the launch of the open-access online journal Blood Advances. Blood has led the way in experimental and clinical hematologic research as the flagship journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH). Blood Advances will fill a niche that complements and… Read More
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awards grant for arXiv upgrade - November 30, 2016
arXiv.org, the influential open access repository for global scientific research, will begin the first phase of a three-year overhaul and modernization with the help of a $445,000 grant by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Sloan Foundation grant will fund the… Read More
Springer Nature offers Italian universities hit by earthquake free access to electronic content - November 28, 2016
Springer Nature, a global research, educational and professional publisher, will open its digital resources to two Italian universities affected by the earthquakes of this past August and October. In addition to the journal titles to which they already subscribe Università degli Studi di Camerino and… Read More
The IET launches new open access program, IET Open - November 23, 2016
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced the launch of a new open access program, IET Open. The creation of the program underpins the IET’s commitment to supporting open science across engineering disciplines to progress research across all areas. IET Open launches with two… Read More
USDA and CHORUS sign MoU to advance public access to content reporting on USDA-funded research - November 15, 2016
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and CHORUS have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to advance public access to content reporting on USDA-funded research. USDA already links from the PubAg portal to CHORUS-verified, publicly accessible content on… Read More
Jisc Collections and Elsevier sign agreement securing access to research publications and initiating open science collaboration - November 7, 2016
Jisc Collections and STM publisher Elsevier have signed a landmark agreement granting academics access to globally-published, high-quality research at costs lower than the industry average. In addition, Jisc Collections and Elsevier have agreed to cooperate on several Open Science opportunities, leveraging Elsevier's… Read More
Concordia launches the first open-access academic press in Quebec - November 7, 2016
The Concordia University Press is now accepting submissions for scholarly book proposals from across the globe as the university ventures into the digital world of publishing with its new open-access press. The university is the first in Quebec and only the third in Canada to offer… Read More
