NASA public access plan available, uses NIH’s PMC platform - February 13, 2015
NASA has announced its plan for a policy ensuring public access to articles and data resulting from the approximately $3 billion it invests annually in basic and applied research, as required by the February 2013 White House directive. NASA has provided a detailed timeline for the… Read More
Nature Publishing Group partners with CEGMR, King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia, to publish npj Genomic Medicine - February 12, 2015
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group is partnering with the Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research (CEGMR), King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia to publish npj Genomic Medicine. npj Genomic Medicine will be a high quality open access research journal which will publish the most important… Read More
Submissions now open for new OA journal, Virus Evolution - February 9, 2015
Academic publisher Oxford University Press has announced that submissions are now open for new Open Access journal Virus Evolution. The field of virus evolution has never been more dynamic or more relevant. Recent epidemics of Ebola, MERS, avian influenza and other viruses have highlighted how… Read More
John Wiley & Sons announces transition of three journals to Wiley Open Access publishing program - February 5, 2015
Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the transition of three journals to the Wiley Open Access publishing program, bringing the total number of Wiley's open access titles to 47. From January 1, 2015, all published articles in Conservation Letters, Thoracic Cancer and The… Read More
PeerJ launches new OA journal – PeerJ Computer Science - February 3, 2015
Open access publisher PeerJ has announced the launch of PeerJ Computer Science, a cross-disciplinary open access journal publishing articles across all fields of computer science. The journal will start accepting preprints on February 3rd and peer-review articles on February 12th, which is also PeerJ's two-year anniversary… Read More
Nature Publishing Group and The University of Queensland launch new OA journal – npj Science of Learning - January 30, 2015
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group has partnered with The University of Queensland (UQ) to publish npj Science of Learning, a new open access research journal that will explore the neurobiology of learning in experimental and educational environments. UQ researcher Professor Pankaj Sah of the Queensland Brain… Read More
Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering now open for submissions - January 30, 2015
Swiss open-access publisher Frontiers has announced that Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering is open for submissions. Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering welcomes original, theoretical, and applied research in mechanical sciences and engineering, with a scope from the nano- to the macroscale. Submissions are peer-reviewed on Frontiers' unique… Read More
Springer assumes control of Autoimmunity Highlights journal, shifts journal to open access - January 29, 2015
STM publisher Springer has assumed control of the journal Autoimmunity Highlights, which was previously owned by A. Menarini Diagnostics, an Italian company. In doing so Springer has also elected to make the journal an open access (OA) publication, which will allow for its published findings to… Read More
ProQuest, University of Michigan Library and Bodleian Libraries provide 25,000 early modern books as open access text - January 28, 2015
The full text of more than 25,000 titles from the acclaimed ProQuest resource Early English Books Online (EEBO) are now openly available on the websites of the University of Michigan Library and the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford. The new open access titles are… Read More
Wiley launches premium open access journal Advanced Science - January 28, 2015
Publisher John Wiley and Sons, Inc., has announced the launch of Advanced Science, a new premium, interdisciplinary open access journal. Advanced Science publishes cutting-edge research, selected through a rigorous and fair reviewing process and is presented using the highest quality production standards to create a premium… Read More
