BMJ expands portfolio of specialist and open access journals with two new titles - April 10, 2015
Global healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has added two further online titles to its burgeoning portfolio of specialist and open access journals. The titles are: BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine and RMD Open. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, a sister title to the British… Read More
National Institute of Standards and Technology releases ‘Plan for Providing Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research’ - April 10, 2015
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released on April 3, 2015, a ‘Plan for Providing Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research’. The NIST plan calls for making peer-reviewed scholarly publications and associated data that result from NIST funding publicly accessible.… Read More
Elsevier’s new Open Access journal, Heliyon, now accepting submissions - April 7, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the call for submissions for its new open access journal Heliyon. The journal will publish research covering all disciplines. It will be a publishing platform for sound research developed in collaboration with the research community so as to offer researchers… Read More
Future Science Group announces free access to peer reviewed cancer-focused journals - April 6, 2015
Publisher Future Science Group has announced that it will provide free access to three of its peer-reviewed, cancer-focused journals for the remainder of 2015. The journals, Hepatic Oncology, Melanoma Management, and the International Journal of Endocrine Oncology present the latest findings in their area of research… Read More
BioMed Central unveils new OA journal – Research Integrity and Peer Review - April 2, 2015
Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced the launch of a new open access journal - Research Integrity and Peer Review, which will act as an academic forum where these discussions can take place. All aspects of integrity in research publication will be covered by… Read More
Submissions now open for new OUP OA journal – Journal of Urban Ecology - April 2, 2015
Academic publisher Oxford University Press has announced that submissions are now open for a new Open Access journal - Journal of Urban Ecology. As of 2009 the number of people living in urban areas surpassed those living in rural areas, a trend that is only… Read More
Springer and Jisc reach agreement on a model to reduce the total cost of ownership of open access and journal subscriptions - April 1, 2015
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media and Jisc have agreed on a new arrangement which takes into account UK scientists' need to comply with multiple funders' open access policies and to have access to the vast library of scientific articles published by Springer,… Read More
Wiley launches new open access journal spanning entire breadth of the dentistry field - March 31, 2015
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the launch of a new open access journal spanning the entire breadth of the dentistry field, Clinical and Experimental Dental Research (CEDR). CEDR will publish quality, peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of dentistry… Read More
Cogent OA launches Freedom APCs, an experimental model designed to test affordability in the uptake of Open Access - March 30, 2015
Cogent OA, an Open Access publisher backed by the Taylor & Francis Group, has announced the launch of Freedom APCs – an experimental new model designed to help match article publishing charges (APCs) to an author's ability to pay. Through Cogent OA's Freedom APC model,… Read More
RCUK publishes first independent review of its open access policy - March 27, 2015
Research Councils UK (RCUK) has published the first independent review of the implementation of the RCUK Policy on Open Access. Chaired by Professor Sir Bob Burgess, former University of Leicester Vice-Chancellor, the review received an excellent response from the research community, with over 85 submissions of… Read More
