Knowledge Exchange project to develop sustainable infrastructure to support open access - June 8, 2015
With the rapid growth in open-access policies and mandates across Europe and worldwide, shared infrastructure and services are now critical to the efficiency and effectiveness of open access publication. These services include software, platforms, information and data services, and support and advice, without which it would be difficult or impossible… Read More
Growing support for statement against Elsevier policy - June 5, 2015
In the last two weeks, over 1600 individuals and organisations from 52 countries around the world have signed a statement opposing Elsevier's new article sharing and hosting policy, underscoring that many in the scholarly community do not support the new policy. The policy imposes unacceptably… Read More
American Society of Clinical Oncology invites authors to submit papers to new OA journal, Journal of Global Oncology - June 5, 2015
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and Dr. David Kerr, founding Editor-in-Chief of the Society's new Journal of Global Oncology, are inviting authors to submit their next article to this new online-only, open access journal. Journal of Global Oncology fulfills a growing need for… Read More
SpringerOpen expands Japanese society open access journals portfolio - June 4, 2015
Surgical Case Reports is now being published by SpringerOpen and it will soon be joined by JA Clinical Reports and IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications. The addition of these journals to the portfolio adds to the growing number of Japanese society open access journals… Read More
Thieme announces new research project examining authors’ perceptions of APC and Pay What You Want as a business model for academic journals - June 4, 2015
Medical and scientific publisher Thieme has announced a collaboration with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich's School of Management and Department of Economics in a groundbreaking research project. The project involves examining authors' perceptions of Article Processing Fees (APC) and Pay What You Want (PWYW) as a business… Read More
American Society for Microbiology set to launch new OA journal, mSystems - June 3, 2015
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has announced plans to launch mSystems™, a new open access journal, in early 2016. mSystems™ will publish preeminent work that stems from applying technologies for high-throughput analyses to achieve insights into the metabolic and regulatory systems at the scale of… Read More
Society for General Microbiology to use CCC’s RightsLink® for Open Access to streamline entire author fee transaction process - May 27, 2015
The Society for General Microbiology (SGM) has chosen the RightsLink® for Open Access platform from Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organisation, to manage Article Processing Charges (APCs) for its Open Access publications. RightsLink for Open… Read More
Organisations around the world denounce Elsevier’s new policy that impedes open access and sharing - May 21, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced a new sharing and hosting policy for Elsevier journal articles on April 30, 2015. The policy represents a significant obstacle to the dissemination and use of research knowledge, and creates unnecessary barriers for Elsevier published authors in complying with funders' open… Read More
Nature Publishing Group and Monash University publish new open access journal npj Regenerative Medicine - May 21, 2015
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group has partnered with Monash University to publish npj Regenerative Medicine, a new open access research journal that will explore the potential of organisms to restore and regenerate damaged cells, tissues and organs. The study of regenerative medicine has the potential… Read More
Cambridge unveils open access journal – Global Health, Epidemiology and Genomics - May 21, 2015
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has announced a major new open access journal, Global Health, Epidemiology and Genomics (GHEG), dedicated to publishing and disseminating research that addresses and increases understanding of global and population health issues through the application of population science, genomics and applied technologies.… Read More
