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
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
