SAGE set to publish OA journal Methodological Innovations - April 8, 2016
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing will begin publishing Methodological Innovations, an international, open access journal, focused on debating and considering innovation within, and the wider issues around, innovative research methods. In a time of great advancement in the production and study of innovation and practice of… Read More
MIT Press launches new open access journal – Network Neuroscience - April 8, 2016
The MIT Press has announced the forthcoming launch of a new open access journal Network Neuroscience. The new journal will feature innovative scientific work that significantly advances our understanding of network organisation and function in the brain across all scales, from molecules and neurons to circuits… Read More
The Endocrine Society set to launch first OA journal – Journal of the Endocrine Society - April 5, 2016
The Endocrine Society will launch its first open-access journal to speed the process of sharing endocrine research breakthroughs with scientists, healthcare providers and the public, the Society announced at its annual meeting. The peer-reviewed publication will be called Journal of the Endocrine Society (JES), and… Read More
SAGE Publishing launches new OA journal publishing research pertaining to rheumatic diseases and their treatment - March 30, 2016
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced the launch of Rheumatology Practice and Research, a peer-reviewed, open access journal publishing research pertaining to rheumatic diseases and their treatment. Rheumatology Practice and Research provides a unique forum for the dissemination of high quality content applicable to researchers,… Read More
Wellcome Trust criticises publishers over failure to deposit papers in the right OA repository and properly attribute them with a creative commons licence - March 29, 2016
The Wellcome Trust has reportedly warned big publishers that it could refuse to provide researchers with funds to publish in certain types of their journals unless they improve their service and lower their costs. Publishers Elsevier and Wiley have been singled out as often failing to… Read More
American Society of Hematology launches new cutting-edge publication, Blood Advances - March 28, 2016
The American Society of Hematology (ASH) will launch an open-access journal to complement Blood, its flagship publication and the most-cited journal in hematology. Blood Advances™ will offer a unique focus on scholarly and educational content that complements and expands on topics beyond the scope addressed in… Read More
Genes & Nutrition moves to BioMed Central - March 24, 2016
Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced that the Genes & Nutrition journal will publish exclusively open access articles and move to BioMed Central. The journal, which is published with The Nutrigenomics Organization (NuGO), examines the relationship between genetics and nutrition, with the ultimate goal… Read More
SCOAP3 publishes 10,000th Open Access article - March 22, 2016
SCOAP3 has announced the publication of its 10,000th Open Access article. Since the start of its operation in 2014, the initiative has supported Open Access publication of High-Energy-Physics articles in 10 high-quality peer-reviewed journals. More than 18,000 scientists from over 90 countries have benefited from… Read More
Oxford University Press now publishing Current Zoology - March 18, 2016
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) is now publishing the fully Open Access journal, Current Zoology. OUP officially took over publication of the journal in January 2016. The first issue published by OUP was in February. Current Zoology (formerly Acta Zoologica Sinica, founded in 1935)… Read More
Elsevier publishes inaugural issue of peer-reviewed open access journal – JACC: Basic to Translational Science - March 17, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of the inaugural issue of JACC: Basic to Translational Science, a new open access peer-reviewed journal. Published on behalf of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), this new bi-monthly journal focuses on the critical interface between laboratory and clinical… Read More
