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
VGTU Press and Pensoft launch joint pilot project for open access peer-reviewed journal Business: Theory and Practice - November 3, 2016
In a new joint pilot project, the open access peer-reviewed journal Business: Theory and Practice (BTP), issued by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) Press since 2000, runs on the new journal publishing platform ARPHA, developed by Pensoft. ARPHA provides end-to-end technological solution… Read More
Healthcare Technology Letters to publish under gold open access model from 2017 - November 3, 2016
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced that from 2017, its rapid-publication journal Healthcare Technology Letters (HTL) will publish under a gold open access model. The journal will also increase in frequency from 4 issues to 6 issues per year. Launched in 2014,… Read More
Ringgold to open access to ISNI Identifiers and data for organisations - November 3, 2016
Ringgold, an ISNI Registration Agency, has released a free service to provide open access to the ISNI Identifiers and data for organisations. This includes an API to obtain and resolve existing ISNIs for organisations; a complete dataset download of ISNIs, organization names, locations, alternate names, and… Read More
Oxford University Press to publish GigaScience - October 31, 2016
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced its partnership with BGI. Beginning January 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP) will publish the open-access, open-data journal, GigaScience. The journal has an international and multidisciplinary editorial board led by Dr. Laurie Goodman as Editor-in-Chief and Dr. Scott Edmunds… Read More
CABI’s first open access book tackles global health - October 27, 2016
Scientific publisher CABI, has published its first open access book - Global Health Research in an Unequal World: Ethics case studies from Africa. Written by Gemma Aellah, Tracey Chantler and P. Wenzel Geissler, this book is a collection of fictionalised case studies of everyday ethical dilemmas… Read More
Ingenta launches Ingenta Open, a new Open Access platform - October 20, 2016
Ingenta, a software provider to the publishing industry, has announced the launch of Ingenta Open, a new hosting platform solution and discovery portal designed exclusively for Open Access content. With an increasing amount of Open Access content being published, much of which is indexed across… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. launches OA platform, LiebertOpenAccess.com - October 19, 2016
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, has announced the launch of its LiebertOpenAccess.com platform, featuring the company's open access publications and services in one online destination. Using the latest technology, LiebertOpenAccess.com offers an intuitive interface and tools to help… Read More
ALPSP publishes special OA issue of Learned Publishing journal - October 13, 2016
The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has announced the publication of a special open access issue of their journal Learned Publishing. The University Press Redux comprises articles arising from the conference of the same name held in March and hosted by Liverpool University… Read More
