Max Planck Society researchers to benefit from OA agreement with Springer - October 21, 2015
STM publisher Springer and the Max Planck Digital Library in Germany have signed an agreement which allows Max Planck researchers to publish their papers open access in more than 1,600 Springer subscription journals and access to over 2,000 Springer journals in total. The Springer Compact agreement,… Read More
Nature Publishing Group publishes 63 percent of research articles via open access models - October 21, 2015
Open access is thriving at Nature Publishing Group (NPG) with sixty three percent of original research articles published to date on nature.com in 2015. Ten years ago, NPG introduced its first fully open access journal. Currently, NPG publishes over 80 journals with an open access option.… Read More
Nature Publishing Group and Tongji University partner to publish new OA journal – npj Pollution Control - October 20, 2015
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), part of Springer Nature, and Tongji University will partner to publish a new open access journal - npj Pollution Control. Both partners signed an agreement during a ceremony at the university's campus. The journal will open for submissions in December… Read More
All articles from six Future Science Group neurology journals now free to access for Neurology Central members - October 19, 2015
Publisher Future Science Group has officially partnered six neurology titles with their new online resource, Neurology Central, offering all members unparalleled free access to peer-reviewed content. Future Science Group (FSG) has announced that all articles from six of their top neurology journals will now be… Read More
AIP Publishing begins opening federally funded research to the public - October 16, 2015
AIP Publishing has announced that it is one of the first STM publishers to begin making federally funded research articles it publishes in its journals publicly available through CHORUS (Clearing House for the Open Research of the United States). Over the next twelve months, AIP Publishing… Read More
SAGE and the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology announce publishing partnership - October 15, 2015
Academic publisher SAGE has announced a new partnership with the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology (IIQM) to publish the International Journal of Qualitative Methods (IJQM). An open access publication, this official journal of IIQM is a resource for a global community of academics, students, and professionals… Read More
EDP Sciences to use CCC’s RightsLink® for Open Access to streamline entire author fee transaction process - October 14, 2015
International STM society publisher EDP Sciences has chosen to manage Article Processing Charges (APCs) for its Open Access publications by using the RightsLink® for Open Access platform from Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organisation. RightsLink… Read More
Karger Publishers launches new OA journal – Biomedicine Hub - October 13, 2015
Medical and scientific publisher Karger Publishers has announced the launch of Biomedicine Hub, a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal dedicated to intersecting high-quality basic, translational and clinical research as well as public global health issues across all biomedical fields. With its focus on interdisciplinary work at… Read More
SPARC applauds introduction of the Affordable College Textbook Act of 2015 - October 12, 2015
SPARC, an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to broaden access to academic knowledge, has applauded the introduction of the Affordable College Textbook Act of 2015, which would reduce the cost of college textbooks by expanding the use of open educational resources. The bill… Read More
Public access to results of NSF-funded research - October 9, 2015
The National Science Foundation (NSF or Foundation) has developed a plan outlining a framework for activities to increase public access to scientific publications and digital scientific data resulting from research using the foundation funds. The plan, entitled 'Today's Data, Tomorrow's Discoveries,' is consistent with the objectives… Read More
