Emerald Group Publishing joins ‘Access to Research’ initiative - March 4, 2014
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has joined the 'Access to Research' initiative. Led by The Publishers Licensing Society, the scheme brings together UK publishers and librarians to make over 1.5 million academic articles freely accessible to the British public. The two-year pilot was set up… Read More
The University of California selects Symplectic to implement a publication harvesting system to support UC’s OA policy - March 4, 2014
The California Digital Library (CDL), in conjunction with University of California campus partners, has chosen Symplectic as the vendor to implement a publication harvesting system in support of the UC Open Access Policy, passed by the Academic Senate in July 2013. Symplectic's flagship product, Elements,… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry: Gold for Gold in Germany - February 27, 2014
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced an enhanced offering for all institutions involved in the DFG-RSC Gold licence agreement. More than 87 institutions in Germany, plus all Max Planck and Fraunhofer Institutes, are not only able to access the full range of RSC Journals,… Read More
PLOS to revise data-sharing policy for all its journals - February 26, 2014
The Public Library of Science (PLOS) has announced that it is revising its data-sharing policy for all PLOS journals - authors must make all data publicly available, without restriction, immediately upon publication of the article. Access to research results, immediately and without restriction, has always… Read More
De Gruyter Open joins Access to Research initiative by Publishers Licensing Society - February 25, 2014
Open Access Publisher De Gruyter Open has joined the Access to Research project, designed and formed by the Publishers Licensing Society. The initiative, which involves close collaboration between publishers and libraries, resonates with recommendations of the Finch Report to further expand access to publicly funded research.… Read More
Frontiers launches new OA journal – Frontiers in Materials - February 21, 2014
Open-access publisher and research network Frontiers, part of Nature Publishing Group family, has announced the launch of a new open-access journal - Frontiers in Materials. Frontiers in Materials is the latest addition to the "Frontiers in" journal series and will cover a broad spectrum of… Read More
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
