Norway renews national open access agreement with Frontiers for 2025 - February 13, 2025
Frontiers has renewed its national open access agreement with Norway for 2025, further cementing the country’s leadership in advancing open science. Originally signed in 2020 and facilitated by the Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research (Sikt), this agreement streamlines the publishing… Read More
Florida State University authors gain unlimited open access publishing and read access through new partnership with Canadian Science Publishing - February 12, 2025
Florida State University (FSU) researchers now have the opportunity to publish their work with unlimited Open Access and Read Access in Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) journals, thanks to a new partnership that eliminates Article Processing Charges (APCs). The partnership, effective from January 1, 2025,… Read More
PLOS announces 2024 price transparency update and ongoing commitment to equitable open access publishing - February 12, 2025
PLOS has released its annual Price Transparency Update, offering the academic community valuable insight into how its publication fees are allocated and used to support journal activities. This update includes reporting from the Plan S Journal Comparison Service, reflecting the publication fees for 2023 and the ways… Read More
Serbia adopts Open Science Platform 2.0, expanding commitment to open access research - February 12, 2025
The Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of Serbia has officially adopted the Open Science Platform 2.0, a comprehensive update to the country’s national open science policy. This new policy significantly broadens the scope of open science efforts, making open access (OA) mandatory for all publicly… Read More
Canadian Science Publishing expands access for Australian and New Zealand researchers with new publishing partnership - February 7, 2025
Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) has announced a new partnership with seven Australian universities and three New Zealand universities to provide unlimited Read Access and Open Access publishing opportunities across all CSP journals. The agreement, which runs from January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2027, allows corresponding authors… Read More
EMS Press achieves full open access for 2025 following successful Subscribe To Open campaign - February 7, 2025
EMS Press has announced that all 22 of its journals will be fully open access in 2025, marking the second consecutive year the publisher has achieved this milestone. This success follows another successful round of its Subscribe To Open (S2O) initiative, further cementing the publisher’s commitment to… Read More
Wiley partners with CAPES to expand open access access for Brazilian researchers - February 6, 2025
Wiley, a global leader in research and learning, has announced a transformative three-year partnership with the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES). The agreement, which provides researchers from 434 institutions within the CAPES consortium access to Wiley’s full portfolio of nearly 2,000… Read More
Manchester Metropolitan University partners with Frontiers for OA publishing agreement - February 6, 2025
Frontiers has announced a new three-year flat fee agreement with Manchester Metropolitan University (Man Met), effective from 2025. This partnership will allow researchers at Man Met to publish unlimited articles in all Frontiers journals without incurring individual article processing charges (APCs), marking a significant step forward in… Read More
cOAlition S to sunset the Journal Comparison Service in April 2025 - February 5, 2025
cOAlition S, the global initiative aiming to accelerate the transition to Open Access publishing, has announced that it will discontinue the Journal Comparison Service (JCS), effective from April 30, 2025. The JCS was launched in September 2022 as part of cOAlition S’s commitment to… Read More
RSC expands support for French chemistry community with new Couperin agreement - January 29, 2025
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has strengthened its commitment to Open Access publishing with a new three-year agreement with Couperin, a consortium representing French Higher Education and Research institutions. Building on a successful partnership from 2022 to 2024, the renewed agreement will provide… Read More
