Stem Cell Research & Therapy now accepting research submissions for special series focusing on cardiovascular regeneration - April 30, 2013
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its journal Stem Cell Research & Therapy is now accepting research submissions for consideration in a special series focusing on cardiovascular regeneration. The publication of these articles will be coordinated, with a series of commissioned reviews… Read More
Maney Publishing offers free access to Health Sciences content for fourteen days - April 30, 2013
Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, is running the second in a series of 'Free Access 14' campaigns from May 13-26, 2013. For fourteen days Maney is making all 26 journals within its Health Sciences Collection freely available. Interested parties may gain access to content, which includes… Read More
SPIE ‘gold’ open access program meets new needs of UK authors - April 24, 2013
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, recently adopted an open access publishing program that supports the needs of authors seeking open access publication. This includes authors affected by new rules adopted in the UK by the Research Councils UK (RCUK). The RCUK recently… Read More
F1000Research drives evolution of open science publishing - April 23, 2013
F1000Research, an Open Access life-sciences journal launched in January 2013, has pioneered a uniquely fast and transparent Open Science Publishing model enabling research papers to be published within a week. After analysing its first few months, F1000Research shares that on average, articles go live within seven… Read More
JISC’s metadata application profile for repositories to comply with RCUK’s new OA policy - April 19, 2013
Research Councils UK (RCUK)'s revised policy on open access (OA) for publicly-funded research to be disseminated through OA routes is coming into force this month. A new metadata application profile called RIOXX has been developed by JISC and UKOLN to ensure that university institutional repositories can… Read More
Statement calls on universities to provide input on access to federally funded research - April 18, 2013
The Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and Association of Research Libraries (ARL) have released a two-page statement by David E. Shulenburger, APLU's Vice President for Academic Affairs. The statement calls on the research university community to provide input to… Read More
De Gruyter presents new OA model for e-dition titles - April 16, 2013
Academic publisher De Gruyter, Germany, has announced that with its new Open Access model, some 45,000 e-dition titles from the publishing house's backlist can be made freely accessible. Customers can purchase an e-book in the same standard as a work produced normally through De Gruyter's e-dition… Read More
Majority of journals published by Taylor & Francis now comply with RCUK and Wellcome Trust mandates - April 12, 2013
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has announced that more than 1,650 of its journals now comply with The Wellcome Trust and RCUK's open access (OA) policies that came into effect on April 1, 2013. Over 500 of these journals are published on behalf of society partners.… Read More
PeerJ announces first institutions to provide PeerJ memberships to their faculty - April 11, 2013
Academic publisher PeerJ Inc. and PeerJ PrePrints (a preprint server) have announced the first four universities to enter into an institutional arrangement to centrally fund PeerJ membership fees for their faculty. Universities who have already entered into these arrangements for their faculty include Duke University,… Read More
edX collaborates with Stanford University to offer learning platform via open source - April 8, 2013
Stanford University and edX recently announced their collaboration to advance the development of edX's open source learning platform and provide free and open online learning tools for institutions around the world. edX is a not-for-profit online learning enterprise founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute… Read More
