Elsevier to publish official journal of CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre - June 3, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a publishing agreement with The CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Under the deal, Elsevier will publish and host the organisation's official journal - Studies in Mycology (SiM), beginning June 2014.… Read More
Elsevier unveils new OA journal – Case Reports in Women’s Health - June 2, 2014
STM Publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new open access journal - Case Reports in Women's Health. Case Reports in Women's Health publishes open access case reports covering all aspects of women's health. The scope reflects the comprehensive nature of women's health and… Read More
Nature Publishing Group and IECAS to launch Microsystems & Nanoengineering OA journal - May 29, 2014
Nature Publishing Group and the Institute of Electronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IECAS) have announced the 2015 launch of Microsystems & Nanoengineering. The online open access journal will go live on nature.com in March 2015, and begin accepting submissions towards… Read More
Frontiers launches new open-access journal – Frontiers in Robotics and AI - May 21, 2014
Frontiers, a community driven open-access publisher and research networking platform, part of Nature Publishing Group, has announced the launch of a new open-access journal - Frontiers in Robotics and AI. Frontiers in Robotics and AI is the first open-access community journal covering the fields of… Read More
Key international associations come together to underscore their support for immediate open access to research articles - May 19, 2014
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has joined major international associations in support of immediate open access to research. SPARC, along with five international partner organisations, recently released a statement underscoring the importance of immediate, free access to the research of research. As… Read More
Nature Publishing Group and Nanyang Technological University announce new OA journal, npj Biofilms and Microbiomes - May 13, 2014
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have announced a new online-only open-access journal, npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. Leading NTU's effort in this new initiative is its Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE), a national research… Read More
Earth, Planets and Space journal to join SpringerOpen portfolio - May 13, 2014
STM publisher Springer has announced that it is starting an open access publication of the journal Earth, Planets and Space (EPS) on behalf of five academic societies in Japan. EPS is the official journal of The Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences; The… Read More
SAGE to begin publishing open access journal ASN NEURO - May 9, 2014
Academic publisher SAGE has acquired the open access journal ASN NEURO, the official publication of the American Society for Neurochemistry (ASN). Established in 2009, ASN NEURO provides glial and neuro scholars with high-quality research articles and reviews that cover recent advances across the breadth of… Read More
Evidence Based Preclinical Medicine launches as part of Wiley Open Access publishing program - May 2, 2014
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the launch of Evidence Based Preclinical Medicine (EBPM) as part of the Wiley Open Access publishing program. EBPM is the first journal dedicated to publishing systematic review protocols and systematic reviews which summarise data from animal studies on… Read More
World Health Organization joins Europe PubMed Central - May 2, 2014
The World Health Organization (WHO) will become a member of the open access repository Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC), joining 25 other life sciences and biomedical research funders. The announcement is in preparation for the launch of the WHO open access policy… Read More
