Scientific American “All Access” subscription provides access to the magazine’s full archive - February 6, 2014
Science magazine Scientific American now offers readers access to its complete archive through a combined e-commerce and consumer site that offers an improved customer experience and new multiplatform subscription packages. The Scientific American "All Access" subscription provides access to the magazine's full archive, more than 160… Read More
OSA’s new OA journal to focus on the rapid dissemination of high-impact results in all areas of optics and photonics - February 6, 2014
The Optical Society (OSA) has announced that it will publish a new open-access journal titled Optica to focus on the rapid dissemination of high-impact results in all areas of optics and photonics. This new online-only journal will publish its first monthly issue in July and will… Read More
Access to Research initiative begins two year pilot - February 4, 2014
Students, independent researchers and small businesses can now access many of the world's best academic papers across science, technology, medicine and other disciplines through their local libraries. This is the result of a unique collaboration between librarians and publishers, who have made their journal content available for free to UK… Read More
First OA articles sponsored by SCOAP3 international initiative now available - January 30, 2014
The first Open Access articles sponsored by the SCOAP3 international initiative are now available. Almost 400 articles have already appeared in the first three weeks of 2014 in the journals of participating publishers. The first 2014 issues of four large High-Energy Physics journals have fully… Read More
Brill joins Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association - January 30, 2014
Scholarly publisher Brill, Netherlands, has joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). The association promotes and supports scholarly publishers that offer reputable open access publications and reliable open access publishing services. Brill open access publications are made available through Brill… Read More
Elsevier to publish OA journal Pathogenesis on behalf of The Royal College of Pathologists - January 30, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of an open access journal - Pathogenesis. Pathogenesis will be published on behalf of The Royal College of Pathologists a professional membership organisation committed to setting and maintaining professional standards and promoting excellence in the practice of Pathology.… Read More
Informa’s Taylor & Francis extends Library & Information Science Author Rights pilot scheme - January 29, 2014
Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, has been running a Library & Information Science Author Rights pilot scheme that allows authors to post their peer-reviewed Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) to an institutional repository immediately after publication. The two year pilot scheme, first introduced in… Read More
Affordable, open access publishing now available to biological and medical science researchers - January 29, 2014
UK universities will now be able to centrally fund their researchers' publication plans for biological and medical sciences journal PeerJ following an agreement with Jisc. This will allow authors to publish articles in the journal for free, for life. PeerJ is… Read More
Society for General Microbiology launches new OA journal, JMM Case Reports - January 24, 2014
The Society for General Microbiology (SGM) has announced the launch of JMM Case Reports, its first new journal in almost 50 years. The new journal is open access and online-only, publishing original case reports on medical, dental and veterinary microbiology and infectious diseases. JMM Case… Read More
IOS Press launches new OA journal – Journal of Facade Design and Engineering - January 24, 2014
STM publisher IOS Press, Netherlands, has announced the launch of the Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, an open access journal, edited by Prof.Dr.Ing. Ulrich Knaack and Dr. Ing. Tillmann Klein, from Delft Technical University, the Netherlands. The journal is primarily a scientific journal, but… Read More
