Nature Publishing Group and The University of Texas Medical Branch announce new open access journal – npj Vaccines - November 19, 2015
Nature Publishing Group and The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston on behalf of its Sealy Center for Vaccine Development have announced a new open access journal, npj Vaccines. From preventable diseases such as measles and mumps, to Ebola and HIV, new clinical trials and… Read More
CHORUS in deal with the U.S. Geological Survey to advance public access to research - November 17, 2015
CHORUS, a non-profit organisation, has signed an agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a science agency for the US Department of the Interior, a federal agency, to work together to implement the plan to increase public access to publications resulting from research funded by USGS.… Read More
SPARC, Higher Education groups support Lingua Editors, Open Access - November 16, 2015
Following in the footsteps of other editors and authors, the six editors and thirty-one editorial board members of the Elsevier journal Lingua resigned on October 27, 2015, in protest of Elsevier’s practices. The Lingua editors argued that the journal’s price has steadily increased year after year, far outpacing the cost… Read More
Taylor & Francis and EIFL announce first OA agreement - November 13, 2015
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group and Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) have announced a twelve month agreement which will enable researchers in countries with developing or transition economies to publish Open Access (OA) at a substantially reduced rate, or completely free of any article publishing… Read More
Elsevier launches new Open Access journal – Physics in Medicine - November 9, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of open access journal: Physics in Medicine. Published as a quarterly journal and adding to Elsevier's expanding Physics portfolio of journals, Physics in Medicine will publish manuscripts focusing on the application of theoretical and practical physics to medicine, physiology… Read More
BMJ has partnered with the Chinese Stroke Association to publish new OA journal, Stroke and Vascular Neurology - November 9, 2015
Global healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has partnered with the Chinese Stroke Association to produce a new open access journal, Stroke and Vascular Neurology. The journal, which represents BMJ’s first joint publishing venture in the People’s Republic of China, will be owned by the Chinese Stroke Association… Read More
BioMed Central to publish Marine Biodiversity Records journal as an open access journal - November 6, 2015
Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced that Marine Biodiversity Records, a journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, will be published by BioMed Central from January 2016. The re-launched open access journal is now accepting submissions. Marine Biodiversity Records is a… Read More
Marshall University School of Medicine launches medical journal - November 3, 2015
The Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine has launched its first scholarly medical journal. The Marshall Journal of Medicine is a peer-reviewed, open-access online journal designed to shed light on medical issues and conditions of priority to West Virginians and the Appalachian region.… Read More
Wiley partners with The AIChE and its Society for Biological Engineering to launch new OA journal – Bioengineering & Translational Medicine - October 30, 2015
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Inc. has announced a partnership with The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and its Society for Biological Engineering (SBE), to launch a new quarterly, peer-reviewed, open access journal, Bioengineering & Translational Medicine. To be launched in 2016 as part of… Read More
Elsevier to publish open access journal – South African Journal of Chemical Engineering - October 29, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that it has been selected to publish the open access journal South African Journal of Chemical Engineering. The journal is owned by the South African Institution of Chemical Engineers (SAIChE) and has been licensed to the Institution of Chemical Engineering (IChemE),… Read More
