Oxford University Press launches new OA journal – Virus Evolution - December 12, 2014
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced the launch of a new open access journal, Virus Evolution. The journal is led by Editors-in-Chief, Professor Oliver Pybus, University of Oxford, and Professor Santiago Elena, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (CSIC-UPV). According to… Read More
Nature Publishing Group partners with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation to launch npj Breast Cancer journal - December 10, 2014
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group is joining forces with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) to publish npj Breast Cancer, an open access research journal which will help understand, prevent, treat and cure the world's second most common cancer. npj Breast Cancer will publish high quality… Read More
OUP announces January 2015 launch of new OA journal, Neuroscience of Consciousness - December 8, 2014
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced the launch of a new Open Access journal, Neuroscience of Consciousness, in partnership with the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC). Professor Anil Seth of the University of Sussex will serve as the Editor-in-Chief. Neuroscience… Read More
Gates Foundation may call for immediate free access for journal articles - November 24, 2014
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a major funder of global health research, plans to require that the researchers it funds publish only in immediate open-access journals. The policy is expected to be initiated by January 2017. Until then, grantees can publish in subscription-based journals… Read More
CERN launches Open Data Portal, makes first data of LHC experiments public - November 24, 2014
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has launched its Open Data Portal where data from real collision events, produced by experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will for the first time be made openly available to all. It is expected that these data will… Read More
NPG and Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences renew contract for Cell Research, strengthen partnership with the launch of new OA journal, Cell Discovery - November 19, 2014
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has cemented its partnership with the Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences (SIBS) by renewing the contract for Cell Research for a second time and by launching a new open access journal, Cell Discovery. Cell Discovery will be China's first broad-spectrum… Read More
Nature Publishing Group and Parkinson’s Disease Foundation partner to launch new open access journal dedicated to Parkinson’s research - November 18, 2014
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the Parkinson's Disease Foundation (PDF) have announced a partnership to launch npj Parkinson's Disease, an open access journal entirely dedicated to research which will help the scientific community to understand, mitigate, and eventually cure Parkinson's disease. npj Parkinson's… Read More
ÜberShare launches initiative for small funders – offers free access to Dimensions - November 18, 2014
ÜberResearch, a portfolio company of Digital Science, has launched the ÜberShare initiative to offer small funders free access to the enterprise level grant portfolio tool 'Dimensions for Funders'. Dimensions covers $750 billion of historic and future spending on scientific research. Small funders… Read More
Karger Publishers offers free access to fundamental research article ‘Filoviridae: a taxonomic home for Marburg and Ebola viruses?’ - November 18, 2014
Biomedical publisher Karger Publishers, Switzerland, is offering the fundamental paper 'Filoviridae: a taxonomic home for Marburg and Ebola viruses?' free to read on the homepage of its journal Intervirology as a token to assist researchers and medical professionals in response to the Ebola outbreak in West… Read More
Wolters Kluwer announces January 2015 release of OA journal – Transplantation Direct - November 13, 2014
Global information services company Wolters Kluwer has announced the January 2015 release of Transplantation Direct, an open access journal created as a companion to Transplantation®, the official journal of The Transplantation Society. This journal is accepting manuscripts now at editorialmanager.com/txd. Transplantation… Read More
