Mary Ann Liebert announces fall 2015 launch of new OA journal on Case Reports in Pancreatic Cancer - June 16, 2015
Publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, has announced the launch of a new peer-reviewed, open access journal, Case Reports in Pancreatic Cancer. The journal will deliver authoritative case reports on all aspects of pancreatic cancer diagnosis, management, treatment, and outcomes. Pancreatic cancer rates have risen… Read More
University of Michigan and BioMed Central launch inaugural issue of new OA journal – Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology - June 15, 2015
Open access publisher BioMed Central, together with the University of Michigan, has announced the inaugural issue of Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology, a peer-reviewed, online, open access journal that aims to promote better care for people with diabetes and endocrine disease. To achieve this, the journal publishes… Read More
SAGE launches OA journal Cardiovascular and Thoracic Open - June 12, 2015
Academic publisher SAGE has launched a new open access journal Cardiovascular and Thoracic Open (CTO). Aimed at surgeons and medical professionals alike, this international, open access, peer-reviewed journal will publish research from around the world pertaining to cardiovascular and thoracic medicine. Cardiovascular and Thoracic Open… Read More
American Society for Microbiology announces 2016 launch of new OA journal – mSphere - June 10, 2015
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has announced plans to launch mSphereTM, a new pan-microbiology open-access journal, in early 2016. mSphere will create new opportunities for researchers in microbial sciences to share findings that are transforming our understanding of human health and disease, ecosystems, neuroscience, agriculture,… Read More
Knowledge Exchange project to develop sustainable infrastructure to support open access - June 8, 2015
With the rapid growth in open-access policies and mandates across Europe and worldwide, shared infrastructure and services are now critical to the efficiency and effectiveness of open access publication. These services include software, platforms, information and data services, and support and advice, without which it would be difficult or impossible… Read More
Growing support for statement against Elsevier policy - June 5, 2015
In the last two weeks, over 1600 individuals and organisations from 52 countries around the world have signed a statement opposing Elsevier's new article sharing and hosting policy, underscoring that many in the scholarly community do not support the new policy. The policy imposes unacceptably… Read More
American Society of Clinical Oncology invites authors to submit papers to new OA journal, Journal of Global Oncology - June 5, 2015
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and Dr. David Kerr, founding Editor-in-Chief of the Society's new Journal of Global Oncology, are inviting authors to submit their next article to this new online-only, open access journal. Journal of Global Oncology fulfills a growing need for… Read More
SpringerOpen expands Japanese society open access journals portfolio - June 4, 2015
Surgical Case Reports is now being published by SpringerOpen and it will soon be joined by JA Clinical Reports and IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications. The addition of these journals to the portfolio adds to the growing number of Japanese society open access journals… Read More
Thieme announces new research project examining authors’ perceptions of APC and Pay What You Want as a business model for academic journals - June 4, 2015
Medical and scientific publisher Thieme has announced a collaboration with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich's School of Management and Department of Economics in a groundbreaking research project. The project involves examining authors' perceptions of Article Processing Fees (APC) and Pay What You Want (PWYW) as a business… Read More
American Society for Microbiology set to launch new OA journal, mSystems - June 3, 2015
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has announced plans to launch mSystems™, a new open access journal, in early 2016. mSystems™ will publish preeminent work that stems from applying technologies for high-throughput analyses to achieve insights into the metabolic and regulatory systems at the scale of… Read More
