SAGE launches new OA journal – Big Data & Society - July 16, 2014
Academic publisher SAGE has launched Big Data & Society, an open access (OA), peer reviewed scholarly journal dedicated to exploring the implications of Big Data for societies. Big Data & Society aims to move beyond the usual notions of Big Data and provide a platform for… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry’s flagship journal Chemical Science goes Gold open access - July 16, 2014
The Royal Society of Chemistry's flagship journal, Chemical Science, is going Gold open access from 2015 - making it the world's first high-quality open access chemistry journal. Outgoing UK Science Minister, David Willetts, has applauded the move as a 'bold step.' With an Impact Factor… Read More
Frontiers and University College London continue open-access publishing agreement - July 11, 2014
UCL joins a growing number of institutions that support authors to publish with Frontiers, including the Max Planck Society, Bielefeld University, University of Nottingham, University of Stuttgart and others. Swiss open-access publisher and research network, Frontiers, part of the Nature Publishing… Read More
COAR responds to STM Publishing Association’s statement on embargo periods - July 9, 2014
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has published a reply to STM Publishing Association's statement on embargo periods (May 28, 2014). In May 2014, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories and several international organisations published a statement supporting the… Read More
Elsevier launches new OA journal – New Negatives in Plant Science - July 9, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of an open access, online-only journal - New Negatives in Plant Science. The journal will publish research focusing on negative, unexpected or controversial results in fundamental plant sciences. Published work will include research articles and short communications, as… Read More
Zoological Letters joins BioMed Central’s open access publishing platform - July 3, 2014
Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced that Zoological Letters, the official academic journal of The Zoological Society of Japan (ZSJ), will be launched from BioMed Central's open access publishing platform. Zoological Letters considers original contributions relevant to zoology and related fields in the form… Read More
Two thousand OA articles published with SCOAP3 funding since January 2014 - July 2, 2014
The Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) has announced that two thousand Open Access articles have been published with SCOAP3 funding since January 2014 in 10 journals from 11 publishers and learned societies. These articles are released under a CC-BY license, and… Read More
Springer and the Japan Geoscience Union to collaborate on new open access journal - June 24, 2014
STM publisher Springer and the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU), the organisation that represents most of the earth and planetary science societies in Japan, have launched the new open access journal Progress in Earth and Planetary Science (PEPS). The first articles have already… Read More
SAGE unveils new Open Access journal – Digital Health - June 20, 2014
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the launch of a new, interdisciplinary Open Access (OA) journal, Digital Health. A fully peer-reviewed journal, Digital Health will present universally accessible and digestible content on the latest developments in the rapidly emerging field of digital health practices. A unique… Read More
Springer launches new open access journal in Mathematics – Research in the Mathematical Sciences - June 19, 2014
STM publisher Springer has launched a new open access journal in Mathematics - Research in the Mathematical Sciences. The journal will be part of the SpringerOpen portfolio and can be read without subscription charges or registration barriers on www.resmathsci.com and on Springer's… Read More
