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
Knowledge Unlatched and BiblioLabs partner to provide improved access to Open Access materials worldwide - April 19, 2017
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the Open Access (OA) initiative supporting monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and BiblioLabs, the software company that has built BiblioBoard, an end-to-end platform for the creation, curation and distribution of OA materials, have announced a partnership to improve mobile and browser-based… Read More
SAGE Publishing to publish Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery - April 17, 2017
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced that it will publish the open access (OA) journal Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery, the official journal of the Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association. Kenneth MC Cheung serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. With particular emphasis on… Read More
Oxford University Press and Zhejiang University Press launch new, peer reviewed open-access journal – Food Quality and Safety - April 17, 2017
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP), together with Zhejiang University Press (ZUP) in Hangzhou, China, has launched a new, peer reviewed open-access journal - Food Quality and Safety (FQS). The editors-in-chief, Dr. Kunsong Chen (Zhejiang University) and Dr. Mondher Bouzayen (French National Institute for Agricultural… Read More
University of Cincinnati announces participation in Open Access Monograph Publishing Initiative - April 13, 2017
The University of Cincinnati is participating in a new initiative of the Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Association of American University Presses (AAUP). This endeavour will advance the wide dissemination… Read More
Wiley collaborates with the American Society of Plant Biologists and Society for Experimental Biology to launch new OA journal – Plant Direct - April 12, 2017
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the launch of Plant Direct, a new open access journal published in collaboration with the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) and the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB). Plant Direct is dedicated to establishing… Read More
More than 200 titles now available from KU Select 2016 - April 11, 2017
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the Open Access initiative supporting monographs in the humanities and social sciences, has unlatched over 200 titles from the recently-funded KU Select 2016 collection of 343 Humanities and Social Sciences e-books. This brings the total number of unlatched books from all KU collections… Read More
