Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awards grant for arXiv upgrade - November 30, 2016
arXiv.org, the influential open access repository for global scientific research, will begin the first phase of a three-year overhaul and modernization with the help of a $445,000 grant by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Sloan Foundation grant will fund the… Read More
Springer Nature offers Italian universities hit by earthquake free access to electronic content - November 28, 2016
Springer Nature, a global research, educational and professional publisher, will open its digital resources to two Italian universities affected by the earthquakes of this past August and October. In addition to the journal titles to which they already subscribe Università degli Studi di Camerino and… Read More
The IET launches new open access program, IET Open - November 23, 2016
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced the launch of a new open access program, IET Open. The creation of the program underpins the IET’s commitment to supporting open science across engineering disciplines to progress research across all areas. IET Open launches with two… Read More
USDA and CHORUS sign MoU to advance public access to content reporting on USDA-funded research - November 15, 2016
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and CHORUS have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to advance public access to content reporting on USDA-funded research. USDA already links from the PubAg portal to CHORUS-verified, publicly accessible content on… Read More
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
