Oxford University Press provides free access to Ebola resources to combat outbreak in West Africa - August 28, 2014
Academic publisher Oxford University Press is offering free access to several resources across its online products and journals to researchers, healthcare workers, and policymakers in their search for effective treatment and prevention in the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Over the next three months, relevant… Read More
American Chemical Society to use New RightsLink for Open Access platform to manage article processing charges for its publications - August 21, 2014
Global licensing and content solutions organisation Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has announced that the American Chemical Society (ACS) is the first publisher to implement its next generation RightsLink® for Open Access platform to manage article processing charges (APCs) for ACS Open… Read More
John Wiley & Sons to provide free access to biomedical literature in support of Ebola outbreak relief efforts in West Africa - August 18, 2014
Publisher John Wiley & Sons will provide free access to biomedical literature in support of the Ebola outbreak relief efforts in West Africa, aiding responders across the affected population. As part of this initiative, Wiley is partnering with the Emergency Access Initiative (EAI), which includes… Read More
Elsevier launches new Open Access journal – Neurobiology of Stress - August 15, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of a new open access journal - Neurobiology of Stress. Rita Valentino, Research Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Director of the Division of Stress Neurobiology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Yvette Sheline, Professor of Psychiatry… Read More
IEEE to launch OA journal IEEE Life Sciences Letters - August 11, 2014
Technical professional organisation IEEE has announced plans to launch IEEE Life Sciences Letters (LSL), a new digital, peer reviewed open-access journal dedicated to the timely publication of high-quality manuscripts that apply methods of quantitative analysis to biological problems at the molecular, cellular, organ, human and/or population… Read More
Six months post launch, 80 percent of UK library services sign up to Access to Research - August 7, 2014
Ten million academic articles, including content from IOP Publishing, are now included in the Access to Research initiative. Since launching earlier this year, the Access to Research initiative has grown quickly to include the majority of local authorities across England, Scotland and Wales. This means… Read More
Association of American Publishers welcomes DOE’s plan to expand public access to federally funded research - August 5, 2014
The Department of Energy (DOE) has announced its plan to implement public access to research funded by the agency, in response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) directive. This plan will be implemented for grants awarded after October 1, 2014 and… Read More
Frontiers launches new open-access medical journal – Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine - July 31, 2014
Swiss open-access publisher Frontiers, part of the Nature Publishing Group family, has announced the launch of Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, a new open-access medical journal. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine will publish peer-reviewed articles on the diagnosis, treatment, and pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease that help to advance… Read More
Brill announces new suite of open access journals - July 30, 2014
Scholarly publisher Brill has announced a new suite of open access journals covering four major disciplines - Humanities, Social Sciences, Law, and Biology. These journals will offer a pure open access environment. Each journal will be divided in sections that align with the major subject areas… Read More
Biochemical Society and Portland Press Limited waive open access publishing fees for low income countries - July 29, 2014
The Biochemical Society, and its wholly-owned publishing subsidiary Portland Press Limited, have announced that authors from low income countries will no longer have to pay open access author processing charges. With this move, authors from 71 countries can have their accepted papers… Read More
