The Annual Review of Public Health is now freely available to read, reuse, and share - April 10, 2017
Non-profit publisher Annual Reviews has announced that the 2017 volume of the Annual Review of Public Health, which is currently online, is published open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BYSA) license. This influential content is now freely available to read, reuse, and share. Additionally,… Read More
New open access policy for all MIT authors - April 10, 2017
The MIT is launching a new way for authors of scholarly articles to legally hold onto rights to reuse and post their articles, and for others to more easily build on that work. As of this month, all MIT authors, including students, postdocs, and staff, can… Read More
Wiley launches new open access journal – Health Science Reports - April 6, 2017
Publisher John Wiley and Sons, Inc. has announced the launch of a new open access journal, Health Science Reports. Dedicated to providing exceptional author service through swift evaluation of existing reviews, Health Science Reports will publish peer-reviewed scientifically sound research across the… Read More
Zoologia joins Pensoft’s portfolio of open access peer-reviewed journals - April 4, 2017
Academic publisher Pensoft and the Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia (Brazilian Society of Zoology) have announced a new partnership. Under the deal, Zoologia, one of the most prestigious scientific journals in South America, will join Pensoft's portfolio of open access peer-reviewed journals. In 1982, Sociedade Brasileira… Read More
European Commission mulls over setting up publishing platform for scientists it funds - April 3, 2017
The European Commission, which spends over €10 billion annually on research, may follow two other big league funders, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust, and set up a publishing platform for the scientists it funds, in an attempt to accelerate the transition… Read More
InTechOpen added to OAPEN List of book publishers complying with Open Access requirements of funders - April 3, 2017
The Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) Library has introduced a new list of book publishers that comply with Open Access requirements for books resulting from research that was funded by the European Research Council (ERC), Wellcome Trust and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
IOP Publishing launches Journal of Physics Communications - March 24, 2017
IOP Publishing has announced the launch of Journal of Physics Communications, a new multidisciplinary open access journal, offering researchers an accelerated and innovative way to publish their work. The journal welcomes the submission of papers from all areas of research relating to physics. It has… Read More
De Gruyter sponsors Directory of Open Access Books - March 23, 2017
Academic publisher De Gruyter is providing sponsorship for the Directory of Open Access Books to celebrate the launch of the De Gruyter Open Access Book Library on degruyter.com which is intended to draw attention to the growing number and growing importance of… Read More
University Library at UC Berkeley signs the OA2020 Expression of Interest - March 21, 2017
The University Library at UC Berkeley has signed the OA2020 Expression of Interest, in collaboration with UC Davis and UC San Francisco. OA2020 is an international movement, led by the Max Planck Digital Library in Munich, to convert the entire corpus of… Read More
AAU, ARL, AAUP to launch Open Access Monograph Publishing Initiative - March 17, 2017
The Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and Association of American University Presses (AAUP) are implementing a new initiative to advance the wide dissemination of scholarship by humanities and humanistic social sciences faculty members… Read More
