New open digital scholarship platform from UCL Press presents open access books online in three new formats - July 15, 2016
The new open digital scholarship platform from UCL Press presents its open access books online in three distinct and innovative formats - enhanced digital editions, monographs with scholarly functionalities, and BOOCs (Books as Open Online Content). Developed by Armadillo Systems (producers of the award-winning Turning… Read More
University of California Press to publish Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene - July 13, 2016
Publisher BioOne and University of California Press have announced that as of January 2017 UC Press will begin publishing Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, the transdisciplinary open access journal published by Read More
VSNU and Taylor & Francis renew OA agreement - July 8, 2016
The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) has renewed an agreement with publisher Taylor & Francis for 2016 and 2017. The renewed agreement offers the opportunity for Leiden researchers to publish open access without additional costs in all hybrid journals published… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry journal RSC Advances goes gold open access - July 5, 2016
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced that from January 2017 its journal RSC Advances will convert to gold open access. The announcement was made at the Chinese Chemical Society 30th Annual Meeting in Dalian on July 1, 2016. By changing one of the… Read More
Nutrire publishes first articles in nutrition and food science with BioMed Central - July 5, 2016
Nutrire, an open access, peer reviewed journal devoted to food and nutrition science has published its first articles with open access publisher BioMed Central. Nutrire is the official journal of the Brazilian Society for Food and Nutrition, and had previously been… Read More
Nature Research in deal with Beijing Technology and Business University and IUFoST to co-publish OA journal npj Science of Food - July 1, 2016
Nature Research, part of Springer Nature, has announced an agreement with Beijing Technology and Business University and the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) to co-publish the high-impact, open access journal npj Science of Food. The journal aims to publish high quality, peer-reviewed original… Read More
SAGE Publishing and the Chinese Academy of Science sign agreement for all gold OA journals to be available on the GoOA platform - July 1, 2016
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has signed an agreement with the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) to make all their gold Open Access (OA) journals available on CAS's GoOA platform to support access to research in the country. Funded by CAS, and… Read More
EDP Sciences now publishing OA journal Regenerative Medicine Research - June 29, 2016
STM publisher EDP Sciences has announced that it is now publishing the fully Open Access journal, Regenerative Medicine Research. EDP officially took over publication of the journal during spring 2016. The first issue published by EDP Sciences will be opened in the second semester of 2016,… Read More
CHORUS adds public access flag to search results - June 27, 2016
Finding publicly accessible content just got a little easier with the addition of a new functionality to the CHORUS search beta results to indicate whether or not an article is publicly accessible, or when it will be made available if known. Every article in the… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert announces Fall 2016 launch of new peer-reviewed open access journal, Health Equity - June 24, 2016
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers has announced the launch of Health Equity, a new peer-reviewed open access journal that will address the urgent need for authoritative information about health disparities and health equity among vulnerable populations. Content will range from translational research to prevention, diagnosis, treatment,… Read More
