Open Access journal Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology accepted for indexing by Thomson Reuters - January 20, 2014
The Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology journal has been accepted for indexing by Thomson Reuters. Following its acceptance by Scopus in 2013, this journal will soon be indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences (CC/PC&ES), beginning with volume 1(1) 2011. … Read More
Society for Neuroscience set to launch new OA journal in the field of neuroscience - January 20, 2014
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has announced plans to launch a new, open access (OA), online-only journal to serve the field of neuroscience. The journal, expected to launch as early as fall 2014, will provide a fully open access, rapid publication option for neuroscientists, adding another… Read More
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health launches nationwide open access to UpToDate - January 16, 2014
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that the Ministry of Health (MOH) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has launched nationwide open access to UpToDate, providing nearly 80,000 physicians and nurses with access to its acclaimed clinical decision support resource. Starting in… Read More
CCC and ALPSP partner to launch new OA Resource Center - January 15, 2014
Global licensing and content solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has launched an Open Access Resource Center in partnership with the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). The resource center includes links to the latest open access news, reports, whitepapers, webinars and websites.… Read More
Journal of Biological Research-Thessaloniki is now open for submissions - January 9, 2014
Journal of Biological Research-Thessaloniki has transferred to publishing with BioMed Central after being self published since 2004, and is now accepting submissions via the new website. All back content can be found in the archive. Journal of Biological Research-Thessaloniki is a peer-reviewed, open access, international… Read More
NISO seeks comments on the draft recommended practice Open Access Metadata and Indicators - January 7, 2014
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is seeking comments on the draft recommended practice Open Access Metadata and Indicators (NISO RP-22-201x). Launched in January 2013, the NISO Open Access Metadata and Indicators Working Group was chartered to develop protocols and mechanisms for transmitting the access status… Read More
JRC adopts OA policy for scientific articles from January 2014 - January 7, 2014
The European Commission has announced unrestricted access to research results under Horizon 2020, the new EU funding programme to boost research and innovation, as of January 2014. In accordance with this new open access policy for scientific publications, JRC (Joint Research Centre) articles in peer-reviewed… Read More
Elsevier launches new OA journal – Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery: Advanced Techniques and Case Management - December 27, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of open access journal, Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery: Advanced Techniques and Case Management. Petra Klinge, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, will serve as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. Neurosurgery has recently seen a… Read More
Two of the oldest German journals in Zoology opt for ‘platinum’ open access - December 23, 2013
Two of the oldest German journals in Zoology – Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift and Zoosystematics and Evolution – will join the journal publishing platform of Pensoft Publishers and adopt "platinum" open access beginning January 1, 2014. For Pensoft, "platinum" open access means not just that the articles… Read More
Nature Publishing Group and the Japan Society of Human Genetics announce 2014 launch of Human Genome Variation journal - December 19, 2013
Publisher Nature Publishing Group and the Japan Society of Human Genetics (JSHG) has announced the 2014 launch of Human Genome Variation, an online open access journal. The journal, a sister title to the Journal of Human Genetics, will go live on nature.com in 2014, and will… Read More
