QScience to use Rubriq’s standardised, independent peer review tool - February 19, 2014
Open access publisher Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation has announced that it will partner with Rubriq, complementing its own peer review process for its journals on QScience.com with the latter's groundbreaking scorecard, a standardised, independent peer review tool developed to speed publication and improve trust in the peer… Read More
SCOAP3 repository launches in beta - February 19, 2014
The SCOAP3 repository is now available at repo.scoap3.org. This beta version of the SCOAP3 repository contains all articles funded by SCOAP3 in several formats, including PDF, PDF/A and XML. All articles are published under a CC-BY license and can be freely downloaded… Read More
The Royal Society’s new open-access title to publish papers covering a range of STEM disciplines - February 18, 2014
The Royal Society has announced the launch of Royal Society Open Science, a new open-access journal that will publish papers from a variety of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. The Royal Society's new journal will boast some non-traditional features, such as the option for… Read More
UNESCO publishes Guidelines to compare Institutional Repository Software - February 18, 2014
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has announced the publication of Guidelines to compare Institutional Repository Software as part of organisation's open access strategy. The publication compares the features of the major platforms and is intended to help libraries focus on which features… Read More
AAAS launches new title – Science Advances - February 14, 2014
The non-profit American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), publisher of the Science family of journals, plans an expansion of its scientific communication efforts with the launch of a new title, Science Advances, as an extended forum for high-quality, peer-reviewed research. Spanning science, technology,… Read More
Frontiers launches new open-access journal – Frontiers in Marine Science - February 13, 2014
Swiss open-access publisher and research network, Frontiers, part of the Nature Publishing Group family, has announced the launch of its open-access journal: Frontiers in Marine Science. The journal is the latest addition to the 'Frontiers in' journal series and will cover research in marine biogeochemistry,… Read More
Stanford University joins 20 other universities to enter into an Institutional Arrangement with PeerJ - February 12, 2014
PeerJ, an open access publisher of scholarly articles in the biological, life & medical sciences, has announced that with the addition of Stanford University, twenty universities have now signed up to provide PeerJ Publication Plans to their faculty. Authors from these institutions will have their publication… Read More
Taylor & Francis expands public access through Access to Research project - February 11, 2014
Access to Research, a pilot initiative to give free, walk-in access to a wide range of academic articles and research in public libraries across the UK, launched this month with the support of Taylor & Francis Group. Through this service, library users will have access to… Read More
American Geophysical Union and Wiley launch new OA journal – Earth and Space Science - February 7, 2014
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) have announced the creation of a new all open access peer-reviewed journal, Earth and Space Science. Marking AGU's second new open access journal in the last 12 months, Earth… Read More
Journal Medicine to transition from subscription to fully open access title in 2015 - February 6, 2014
Information and point-of-care solutions provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that Medicine, one of the most respected and frequently cited journals in general medicine, will transition to an open access publication from a subscription-based model. Medicine will provide authors with a distinctive new service offering… Read More
