American Chemical Society announces new open access journal serving global and multidisciplinary chemistry, ACS Omega - December 15, 2015
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) will expand its open access program in 2016 with the announcement of ACS Omega, a new open access, multidisciplinary chemistry journal publishing peer-reviewed research of broad impact from around the world. The Society made the announcement at… Read More
STM responds to the Max Planck Digital Library White Paper on the Open Access Transition - December 14, 2015
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has welcomed the Max Planck DL (MPDL) paper on the transition to OA. STM welcomes this contribution to the open access debate and shares the belief that the most sustainable open access… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert launches new peer-reviewed open access journalzine – Healthcare Transformation - December 10, 2015
Healthcare Transformation, a new peer-reviewed open access journalzine published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., released its inaugural issue at the 13th Annual Jefferson University Gala at Jefferson University, Philadelphia. Through authoritative contributions from preeminent thought leaders and decision makers, Healthcare Transformation re-imagines healthcare delivery, education, and… Read More
CHORUS and NSF in deal to advance public access to research - December 1, 2015
CHORUS, a non-profit organisation, has announced an agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF), as part of the agency's continued commitment to expand public access to the results of its funded research. The new agreement is in accordance with the NSF… Read More
Research4Life and DOAJ announce working partnership - November 24, 2015
Research4Life and DOAJ have announced a working partnership that will help to ensure that the users of Research4Life will have access to the largest possible array of open access journals from publishers following a quality standard. The partnership will also help reinforce… Read More
F1000 appoints Rebecca Lawrence as Managing Director - November 20, 2015
F1000, a provider of services to biomedical researchers to support the discovery, writing and publication of new scientific findings, has announced the appointment of Rebecca Lawrence as Managing Director. Lawrence was previously Managing Director of F1000 Research Ltd, the publishing arm of F1000. During the… Read More
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
