CERN launches Open Data Portal, makes first data of LHC experiments public - November 24, 2014
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has launched its Open Data Portal where data from real collision events, produced by experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will for the first time be made openly available to all. It is expected that these data will… Read More
NPG and Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences renew contract for Cell Research, strengthen partnership with the launch of new OA journal, Cell Discovery - November 19, 2014
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has cemented its partnership with the Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences (SIBS) by renewing the contract for Cell Research for a second time and by launching a new open access journal, Cell Discovery. Cell Discovery will be China's first broad-spectrum… Read More
Nature Publishing Group and Parkinson’s Disease Foundation partner to launch new open access journal dedicated to Parkinson’s research - November 18, 2014
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the Parkinson's Disease Foundation (PDF) have announced a partnership to launch npj Parkinson's Disease, an open access journal entirely dedicated to research which will help the scientific community to understand, mitigate, and eventually cure Parkinson's disease. npj Parkinson's… Read More
ÜberShare launches initiative for small funders – offers free access to Dimensions - November 18, 2014
ÜberResearch, a portfolio company of Digital Science, has launched the ÜberShare initiative to offer small funders free access to the enterprise level grant portfolio tool 'Dimensions for Funders'. Dimensions covers $750 billion of historic and future spending on scientific research. Small funders… Read More
Karger Publishers offers free access to fundamental research article ‘Filoviridae: a taxonomic home for Marburg and Ebola viruses?’ - November 18, 2014
Biomedical publisher Karger Publishers, Switzerland, is offering the fundamental paper 'Filoviridae: a taxonomic home for Marburg and Ebola viruses?' free to read on the homepage of its journal Intervirology as a token to assist researchers and medical professionals in response to the Ebola outbreak in West… Read More
Wolters Kluwer announces January 2015 release of OA journal – Transplantation Direct - November 13, 2014
Global information services company Wolters Kluwer has announced the January 2015 release of Transplantation Direct, an open access journal created as a companion to Transplantation®, the official journal of The Transplantation Society. This journal is accepting manuscripts now at editorialmanager.com/txd. Transplantation… Read More
Elsevier launches new Open Access journal – JPRAS Open - November 12, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new, online-only open access journal, JPRAS Open. As a sister journal of Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, JPRAS Open is similarly dedicated to publishing case reports, short communications, and full-length research papers on… Read More
Elsevier unveils new OA journal – EBioMedicine - November 5, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that two of its leading brands, Cell Press and The Lancet, have now joined forces to launch a new open access journal, EBioMedicine. The broad-spectrum journal will publish research papers covering the entire breadth of life… Read More
SAGE launches new open access journal, Translational Epigenomics - November 3, 2014
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the launch of Translational Epigenomics, a new open access journal publishing research on epigenetic alterations in gene expression. Translational Epigenomics will cover diverse aspects of this new and emergent field such as DNA methylation, posttranslational histone modifications, and non-mutational RNA… Read More
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness journal offers free access to special collection of articles on Ebola - October 31, 2014
The Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health recently launched a special collection of articles on the Ebola virus. These, and subsequent articles will remain freely available to all readers. The Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness (DMPHP) Special Edition on Ebola has been designed… Read More
