Knowledge Unlatched Pilot Collection to become Open Access - March 11, 2014
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) has announced that its Pilot Collection of 28 new books from 13 recognised scholarly publishers will become Open Access. The KU Pilot Collection is the first step in creating a sustainable route to Open Access for Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) books. Support… Read More
Wiley unveils new OA journal – Nursing Open - March 10, 2014
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the launch of Nursing Open as part of the Wiley Open Access publishing program. The journal is one of the first open access journals to span the entire breadth of the nursing field. Nursing Open provides authors… Read More
MSU Library joins SCOAP3, makes research articles freely accessible to all - March 10, 2014
The Montana State University Library has taken an initiative towards making important physics research more widely accessible. The library recently signed on to participate in Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3), a program that makes peer-reviewed literature… Read More
Thieme Publishing Group expands open-access range, launches new platform ‘Thieme Open’ - March 6, 2014
Medical publisher Thieme Publishing Group is expanding its open-access range with the launch of the new platform 'Thieme Open.' The online resource offers authors a comprehensive overview of the numerous open-access publishing options provided by Thieme. Readers can easily access the latest articles with a few… Read More
Emerald Group Publishing joins ‘Access to Research’ initiative - March 4, 2014
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has joined the 'Access to Research' initiative. Led by The Publishers Licensing Society, the scheme brings together UK publishers and librarians to make over 1.5 million academic articles freely accessible to the British public. The two-year pilot was set up… Read More
The University of California selects Symplectic to implement a publication harvesting system to support UC’s OA policy - March 4, 2014
The California Digital Library (CDL), in conjunction with University of California campus partners, has chosen Symplectic as the vendor to implement a publication harvesting system in support of the UC Open Access Policy, passed by the Academic Senate in July 2013. Symplectic's flagship product, Elements,… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry: Gold for Gold in Germany - February 27, 2014
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced an enhanced offering for all institutions involved in the DFG-RSC Gold licence agreement. More than 87 institutions in Germany, plus all Max Planck and Fraunhofer Institutes, are not only able to access the full range of RSC Journals,… Read More
PLOS to revise data-sharing policy for all its journals - February 26, 2014
The Public Library of Science (PLOS) has announced that it is revising its data-sharing policy for all PLOS journals - authors must make all data publicly available, without restriction, immediately upon publication of the article. Access to research results, immediately and without restriction, has always… Read More
De Gruyter Open joins Access to Research initiative by Publishers Licensing Society - February 25, 2014
Open Access Publisher De Gruyter Open has joined the Access to Research project, designed and formed by the Publishers Licensing Society. The initiative, which involves close collaboration between publishers and libraries, resonates with recommendations of the Finch Report to further expand access to publicly funded research.… Read More
Frontiers launches new OA journal – Frontiers in Materials - February 21, 2014
Open-access publisher and research network Frontiers, part of Nature Publishing Group family, has announced the launch of a new open-access journal - Frontiers in Materials. Frontiers in Materials is the latest addition to the "Frontiers in" journal series and will cover a broad spectrum of… Read More
