IEEE-owned peer-reviewed journals now offer OA publishing options - May 28, 2013
Technical professional organisation IEEE recently announced that all IEEE-owned peer-reviewed journals now offer open-access (OA) publishing options, the latest sign of OA's growth as it continues to transform the scholarly research publishing industry. Open access allows all technologists and the general public to access research… Read More
Biss’ open access legislation passes House - May 28, 2013
Legislation State Senator Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) sponsored to work toward making state universities' taxpayer-funded research available to the public recently passed the House by a vote of 98-16. Senate Bill 1900, which will require each public university to convene an open access task force, now awaits the governor's signature. … Read More
SAGE and AERA launch new OA journal AERA Open - May 24, 2013
Academic publisher SAGE and the American Educational Research Association (AERA) have announced that they will launch AERA Open, an online, peer-reviewed journal that will be freely available to all readers on the web. AERA Open is expected to begin publishing articles in early 2014. Currently… Read More
Official journal of the Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Medicine moves to BioMed Central’s OA platform - May 21, 2013
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (AOEM) has moved to BioMed Central's open access publishing platform. AOEM is the official academic journal of The Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (KSOEM). KSOEM was formed in… Read More
RSC Gold for Gold OA initiative is ‘ingenious,’ says UK Minister for Universities and Science - May 16, 2013
The Royal Society of Chemistry's (RSC) Gold for Gold open access initiative was recently declared 'ingenious' by David Willetts MP, UK Minister for Universities and Science. The minister was giving evidence on open access to the House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee. When asked… Read More
UNESCO announces new Open Access policy - May 16, 2013
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), a specialised agency of the United Nations (UN), has announced that it will make its digital publications available to millions of people around the world free-of-charge with an open license. Following a decision by the Organisation's Executive… Read More
New IEEE OA journal aims to boost technology innovation - May 15, 2013
Technical professional organisation IEEE, US, is seeking to increase the impact that scientific research can have on technology innovation with its first online, open-access (OA) 'mega journal' – a journal that covers a range of disciplines instead of a single-topic focus. IEEE Access provides free… Read More
CCC joins Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association - May 15, 2013
Licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), which offers a forum for bringing together the entire Open Access community. CCC currently works with many of OASPA's members on issues such as collecting Article Processing… Read More
California OA bill clears state’s Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee - May 13, 2013
A bill that would require California-funded research to be deposited in open access repositories recently passed the state's Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee. The bill was the brainchild of California Council on Science & Tech Fellow Annabelle Kleist. Assemblyman Brian Nestande (R-Palm Desert) introduced the… Read More
IOP Publishing and NIMS announce new agreement for continued publication of STAM - May 13, 2013
IOP Publishing, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Institute of Physics, has announced a new three year agreement with the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) for the continued publication of the open access title Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM). Beginning July 2013… Read More
