Future Science Group offers free access to top Zika-related articles - August 22, 2016
Publisher Future Science Group is making some top review and commentary articles freely available to aid the Zika research effort. In a bid to aid the ongoing effort to develop effective treatments, and ultimately a preventative vaccine, for Zika infection, Future Science Group is making… Read More
KU Select 2016 announced - August 22, 2016
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) has announced KU Select 2016, its third collection of specialist scholarly books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. KU hopes to make this collection available on an Open Access basis. As KU moves out of its Pilot phase, it has expanded its… Read More
IET launches new journal, IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications - August 18, 2016
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has launched a new, open access engineering journal, IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications. The new journal will cover emerging issues including security, privacy issues and data analytics techniques in addition to classical cyber-physical systems (CPS) research topics such… Read More
NASA unveils new public web portal for research results - August 18, 2016
NASA has launched a new agency public access portal. The creation of the NASA-Funded Research Results portal on NASA.gov reflects the agency's ongoing commitment to providing broad public access to science data. NASA now requires articles in peer-reviewed scholarly journals and papers in juried conference… Read More
American Geophysical Union partners with Wiley to launch new OA journal – Geohealth - August 12, 2016
Geohealth is a rapidly emerging transdisciplinary field that supports the intersection of Earth and environmental sciences with human, agricultural, and environmental health. As a first step in its efforts to support and enable this emerging field, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) has announced the launch of… Read More
Elsevier to publish OA journal, Engineering, in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Engineering - August 11, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has been selected to publish Engineering, an open access journal published in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Engineering was founded in 2015 in China and will now be published for a global audience. The journal aims to provide a high-level platform… Read More
Wiley provides free access to latest Zika research to coincide with events in Brazil - August 8, 2016
Global publisher Wiley has announced that it has made available all of its published Zika content on one site www.wiley.com/go/zika to coincide with events in Brazil, a territory that has seen increased cases of Zika Virus recently. Access will be freely… Read More
American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society launches OA journal – Foot and Ankle Orthopaedics - August 8, 2016
The American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society (AOFAS) has launched Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics™ (FAO), an open access journal dedicated to the orthopaedic care and treatment of patients with foot and ankle conditions. FAO joins the Society's flagship journal Foot & Ankle International® (FAI). Both are… Read More
Adis launches new OA pharmacoeconomics journal – PharmacoEconomics – Open - August 2, 2016
Drug information provider Adis is launching a new open access pharmacoeconomics journal, which will be added to their portfolio in 2017. Called PharmacoEconomics - Open, the new journal will focus on cost and health outcomes associated with drugs, devices and other healthcare interventions. PharmacoEconomics -… Read More
ARL to open up access for all SPEC Kits on the ARL Digital Publications platform - August 1, 2016
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) will open up access for all SPEC Kits on the ARL Digital Publications platform to all users by the end of August 2016. This change demonstrates the value that the Association and its members place on free and open access… Read More
