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
De Gruyter consolidates all OA publications under a new imprint: De Gruyter Open - January 24, 2014
Academic publishing house De Gruyter is consolidating all OA publications under a new imprint: De Gruyter Open. The publisher Versita, which was acquired by De Gruyter in 2012, will be fully subsumed under the new imprint. Open Access (OA) is an important and growing aspect… Read More
American Chemical Society implements CCC’s RightsLink for Open Access solution - January 23, 2014
Global licensing and content solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has announced that the world's largest scientific society, the American Chemical Society (ACS), has selected CCC's RightsLink® for Open Access to manage Article Processing Charges (APCs) for its Open Access publications.… Read More
TU Delft Library and IOS Press in deal to publish OA books - January 22, 2014
STM publisher IOS Press, Netherlands, and TU Delft Library, part of the Corporate Office of TU Delft, have signed an agreement to publish at least ten Open Access (OA) books - as ebooks – by authors affiliated with TU Delft. Both parties hope to stimulate the… Read More
Springer expands open access activities in South Korea, in deal for two new SpringerOpen journals with Korean partners - January 22, 2014
STM publisher Springer is intensifying its open access activities in South Korea by signing agreements for two new SpringerOpen journals with the Korean Geotechnical Society (KGS) and the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles (KSCT). Starting in January 2014, both research societies will start publishing their… Read More
