The IET launches new OA journal – Engineering Biology - March 16, 2017
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has launched a new fully open access engineering journal, Engineering Biology. The new online-only journal is focused on the application of engineering science and practice to the design of biological devices and systems for a wide range of fields… Read More
EDP Sciences to publish OA journal BioMedicine - March 15, 2017
Not-for-profit publisher EDP Sciences has announced that it is now publishing the fully Open Access journal, BioMedicine. EDP officially took over publication of the journal at in the beginning of 2017. The first issue published by EDP Sciences is available since beginning of March 2017. … Read More
Thieme launches new OA journal for chemists – SynOpen - March 14, 2017
Medical and scientific publisher Thieme Publishing Group has launched SynOpen, a new open access journal. The new English-language journal reports on current research results in the field of chemical synthesis. The journal gives interested authors in chemistry the option to publish their articles in open access… Read More
First batch of titles from KU Select 2016 collection now been unlatched - March 13, 2017
The first batch of titles from the KU Select 2016 collection has now been unlatched and can be downloaded by anyone, anywhere. KU Select 2016 is a collection of 343 Humanities and Social Sciences titles from 54 publishers. Around 270 libraries and consortia throughout the world… Read More
More STM publishers select CCC’s RightsLink platform to handle APCs for open access articles - March 8, 2017
Global licensing and content solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has announced that the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Bone & Joint Publishing, and IWA Publishing have chosen to manage Article Publishing Charges (APCs) for their Open Access publications using CCC's RightsLink® platform.… Read More
Marking the 15th Anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative - March 3, 2017
This year marks the 15th Anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), a landmark meeting convened in Budapest by the Open Society Foundations (OSF) that aimed to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available. The participants… Read More
Elsevier launches new OA journal for healthcare professionals dealing with burn injuries - March 2, 2017
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of Burns Open: An International Open Access Journal for Burn Injuries. Published on behalf of the International Society for Burn Injuries (ISBI), and a companion to Burns, this new international open access journal aims to foster the exchange of… Read More
Knowledge Unlatched to make 343 HSS books Open Access - February 24, 2017
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the Open Access initiative supporting monographs in the humanities and social sciences, will be unlatching all 147 front list and 196 backlist e-books from the KU Select 2016 collection. Around 270 libraries and consortia from 21 countries pledged towards the unlatching of… Read More
BMC Research Notes to re-focus on dark data, bite-size and negative results - February 14, 2017
BMC Research Notes, an open access journal from BioMed Central, will re-focus on its original mission of accepting submissions for short publications, incremental updates to previous work, results of individual experiments and similar material that lacks a suitable publication outlet. While returning to its roots with… Read More
IET launches inaugural issue of new OA journal – IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications - February 8, 2017
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has published the first issue of its latest open access journal - IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications. The new journal covers emerging issues including security, privacy issues and data analytics techniques in addition to classical cyber-physical systems (CPS)… Read More
