IEEE to launch OA journal IEEE Life Sciences Letters - August 11, 2014
Technical professional organisation IEEE has announced plans to launch IEEE Life Sciences Letters (LSL), a new digital, peer reviewed open-access journal dedicated to the timely publication of high-quality manuscripts that apply methods of quantitative analysis to biological problems at the molecular, cellular, organ, human and/or population… Read More
Six months post launch, 80 percent of UK library services sign up to Access to Research - August 7, 2014
Ten million academic articles, including content from IOP Publishing, are now included in the Access to Research initiative. Since launching earlier this year, the Access to Research initiative has grown quickly to include the majority of local authorities across England, Scotland and Wales. This means… Read More
Association of American Publishers welcomes DOE’s plan to expand public access to federally funded research - August 5, 2014
The Department of Energy (DOE) has announced its plan to implement public access to research funded by the agency, in response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) directive. This plan will be implemented for grants awarded after October 1, 2014 and… Read More
Frontiers launches new open-access medical journal – Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine - July 31, 2014
Swiss open-access publisher Frontiers, part of the Nature Publishing Group family, has announced the launch of Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, a new open-access medical journal. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine will publish peer-reviewed articles on the diagnosis, treatment, and pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease that help to advance… Read More
Brill announces new suite of open access journals - July 30, 2014
Scholarly publisher Brill has announced a new suite of open access journals covering four major disciplines - Humanities, Social Sciences, Law, and Biology. These journals will offer a pure open access environment. Each journal will be divided in sections that align with the major subject areas… Read More
Biochemical Society and Portland Press Limited waive open access publishing fees for low income countries - July 29, 2014
The Biochemical Society, and its wholly-owned publishing subsidiary Portland Press Limited, have announced that authors from low income countries will no longer have to pay open access author processing charges. With this move, authors from 71 countries can have their accepted papers… Read More
Elsevier launches new Open Access journal – Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Cases - July 29, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Cases, an open access, surgical journal. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Cases is a surgical journal dedicated to publishing case reports and case series only which must be original, educational, rare conditions or findings,… Read More
Wiley and Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) partner to launch new Open Access journal - July 23, 2014
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Inc. and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) have announced the launch of the Society's first fully open access journal - Geo: Geography and Environment. Geo positions the RGS-IBG and Wiley as world leaders in the publication of geographical research. Geo… Read More
The Optical Society unveils new OA journal for highest-impact research in the science of light - July 23, 2014
The Optical Society (OSA) has published the first issue of Optica, its new open-access, online-only journal dedicated to rapidly disseminating the highest-impact peer-reviewed research across the entire spectrum of optics and photonics. The journal will join a portfolio of publications published by OSA, whose scientific journals… Read More
SCOAP3 repository now open for the community to harvest content through OAI-PMH feeds - July 21, 2014
The SCOAP3 repository is now open for the community to harvest content through OAI-PMH feeds. The SCOAP3 repository hosts Open Access articles published under the SCOAP3 initiative. It is built on Open Source software and has been recently featured at the Open Repository 2014 conference. The… Read More
