SPARC joins broad coalition in urging Administration to open up access to federally funded educational resources - August 5, 2015
The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), along with a broad coalition of more than 85 education, library, technology, public interest, and legal organisations, called on the White House to take administrative action to ensure federally funded educational materials are made available as Open Educational… Read More
Elsevier launches new open access journal covering all areas of surgery - August 5, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of the International Journal of Surgery Open (IJS Open), a new open access journal covering all areas of surgery. This peer-reviewed, online-only journal will make significant contributions to knowledge in clinical surgery, experimental surgery, and surgical education and history… Read More
New open access health sciences research repository for Africa to launch during 2015 WLIC in Cape Town - August 5, 2015
BioMed Central, open access publishers and creators of the Open Repository system, and Partnerships for Health Information (PHI) will launch the new open access health sciences research repository for Africa during the Health and Biosciences Libraries section open session during the 2015… Read More
COAR launches draft ‘Resource Type’ vocabulary for open access repositories - August 4, 2015
Open access repositories are evolving in terms of the roles they play and the attributes they aim to express in their records. Users want to know about additional metadata elements used for describing repository items, such as open access status, research funder, institutional affiliation, and so on. Given the truly… Read More
Jisc works with universities and researchers to reap benefits offered from OA practice - August 3, 2015
Jisc is working to help universities and researchers reap the benefits offered from OA practice in response to the recent OA policy review by Research Councils UK (RCUK) and the release of the Higher Education and Funding Council's (HEFCE) updated requirements for next year's Research Excellence… Read More
SAGE launches OA journal Translational Research in Oral Oncology - July 31, 2015
Academic publisher SAGE has today announced the launch of a new open access (OA) journal -Translational Research in Oral Oncology. This international, peer reviewed publication will provide a forum for the dissemination of high- quality oncology research concerning neoplasms in the head and neck. As… Read More
SPARC applauds Senate Committee action on public access legislation - July 30, 2015
The Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) has passed S. 779, the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) Act, unanimously by voice vote and moved it to the full Senate for consideration. This marks the first time the Senate has acted on… Read More
American College of Cardiology set to launch new OA journal – JACC Basic Translational Research - July 29, 2015
The American College of Cardiology has announced the December 2015 launch of a new journal JACC: Basic Translational Research. Dr. Douglas L. Mann has been named Editor-in-Chief of the new journal, which will be published monthly as an open access journal. The latest JACC journal… Read More
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to bring FASTR Act up for mark-up on July 29 - July 28, 2015
After a month of intense conversations and negotiations, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) will bring the 'Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) Act' up for mark-up on July 29, 2015. The language that will be considered is an amended version… Read More
BMJ partners with European Society for Medical Oncology to publish new OA oncology journal - July 28, 2015
Global healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has announced a partnership with the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), with the aim of publishing a new open access cancer journal - ESMO Open - from next year. ESMO has over 10,000 members from over 130 countries, working… Read More
