Wolters Kluwer and the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology launch Environmental Epidemiology - August 22, 2017
Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, in partnership with the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE), has announced the launch of a new open access journal, Environmental Epidemiology, published as part of the Lippincott portfolio.… Read More
Gale offers free access to science resources to commemorate total solar eclipse - August 17, 2017
Gale, a Cengage company and provider of library resources, is offering free, open access to its Science In Context, Student Resources In Context, and Research In Context products through September 15, 2017 to support the thousands of libraries across the U.S. commemorating the total solar eclipse… Read More
The Czech Republic National Strategy of Open Access to Scientific Information and Data gets government approval - August 3, 2017
The Czech Republic National Strategy of Open Access to Scientific Information for 2017-2020 was approved by the Government on June 14, 2017. The strategy includes open access to publications and data (Data Management Plans) requirements for publicly funded research projects. Interoperable and OpenAIRE compatible open… Read More
FASTR legislation to ensure permanency of public access to scientific research - July 27, 2017
SPARC, an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication, has applauded the introduction of the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) Act, which would ensure that public access to research articles becomes the law… Read More
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
