Max Planck Digital Library study calculates redeployment of funds in Open Access - April 30, 2015
The Max Planck Digital Library has put forward a study on the transformation of the subscription-driven system for scientific publications to an Open Access model. For the first time, quantitative parameters are presented showing that the liberation of scholarly literature is possible at no extra costs.… Read More
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam joins Brill Open Access Membership Program - April 30, 2015
Academic publisher Brill has announced that Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has decided to join Brill's Open Access Membership Program. This program allows VU authors to submit their paper for Open Access publication in the Brill journal program with two options to choose from. They can choose to… Read More
New Science Europe principles on Open Access Publisher Services - April 28, 2015
Members of Science Europe - comprising 50 major public research organisations in Europe - adopted four new common principles on Open Access Publisher Services at its General Assembly meeting in Vienna on April 15. Science Europe is an association of major European research funding and research… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. announces fall 2015 launch of new open access journal on cannabis and cannabinoid research - April 27, 2015
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, has announced the fall 2015 launch of Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, a new peer-reviewed, open access journal. The journal claims to be the only journal dedicated to the scientific, medical, and psychosocial exploration of clinical cannabis, cannabinoids, and the biochemical mechanisms… Read More
Elsevier launches multidisciplinary open access journal - April 24, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of a new open access journal One Health. The journal is the official journal of the One Health Platform, an international forum that promotes a cross-sectoral and collaborative approach to one health issues, bringing together leading experts from a… Read More
Cambridge University Press unveils new Open Access Monograph Publishing Service - April 15, 2015
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press is launching a new Open Access Monograph Publishing Service offering authors a way to publish their books via open access in a fairly priced way. This new service gives authors the option of publishing their work under the Gold Open… Read More
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
