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
Elsevier launches new OA journal for healthcare professionals dealing with burn injuries - March 2, 2017
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of Burns Open: An International Open Access Journal for Burn Injuries. Published on behalf of the International Society for Burn Injuries (ISBI), and a companion to Burns, this new international open access journal aims to foster the exchange of… Read More
Knowledge Unlatched to make 343 HSS books Open Access - February 24, 2017
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the Open Access initiative supporting monographs in the humanities and social sciences, will be unlatching all 147 front list and 196 backlist e-books from the KU Select 2016 collection. Around 270 libraries and consortia from 21 countries pledged towards the unlatching of… Read More
BMC Research Notes to re-focus on dark data, bite-size and negative results - February 14, 2017
BMC Research Notes, an open access journal from BioMed Central, will re-focus on its original mission of accepting submissions for short publications, incremental updates to previous work, results of individual experiments and similar material that lacks a suitable publication outlet. While returning to its roots with… Read More
IET launches inaugural issue of new OA journal – IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications - February 8, 2017
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has published the first issue of its latest open access journal - IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications. The new journal covers emerging issues including security, privacy issues and data analytics techniques in addition to classical cyber-physical systems (CPS)… Read More
International Journal of Metrology and Quality Engineering now fully Open Access - February 6, 2017
STM publisher EDP Sciences has announced that International Journal of Metrology and Quality Engineering (IJMQE) is now a fully gold Open Access journal, meaning that all published articles will be available for anyone to read at any time from the publication date. IJMQE was previously… Read More
SAGE Publishing and the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health partner to publish Global Advances in Health and Medicine - February 3, 2017
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing will partner with the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health to publish Global Advances in Health and Medicine (GAHM), a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to improving health and well-being through whole-person and whole-systems care and healing.… Read More
Elsevier launches new OA, peer-reviewed journal serving the international otolaryngology community - January 27, 2017
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of Otolaryngology Case Reports, a new open access journal publishing case reports in all areas of adult and pediatric otolaryngology. This peer-reviewed, online-only companion journal to the prestigious American Journal of Otolaryngology is now accepting submissions and is scheduled… Read More
New sponsorship model to broaden arXiv membership - January 27, 2017
A new sponsorship model for arXiv.org aims to encourage more libraries and research institutions around the world to support the repository by becoming members. To help broaden membership, arXiv's leadership and Anurag Acharya, co-creator of Google Scholar, have worked together to develop a model in… Read More
