OUP journals compliant with RCUK and Wellcome Trust open access policies - April 5, 2013
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced that from April 1, 2013 Oxford journals will be compliant with the Research Councils UK (RCUK) and Wellcome Trust policies on open access (OA). OUP claims to be mission-driven to facilitate the widest possible dissemination of high-quality research.… Read More
Wiley journals comply with new OA policies of UK funders - April 4, 2013
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that the majority of Wiley's journals in its open access publishing program now offers authors funded by The Wellcome Trust and Research Councils UK the opportunity to publish their articles under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY… Read More
ACM expands options for free access to content from ACM Publications - April 3, 2013
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has introduced several policy changes that are seen to increase access to its journals and conference proceedings. The changes are intended to better balance the needs of authors and researchers in the computing community, many of whom have expressed a… Read More
PeerJ unveils PeerJ PrePrints – a new ‘Preprint Server’ for the Biological and Medical Sciences - April 3, 2013
Open Access publisher PeerJ has launched 'PeerJ PrePrints' an entirely new 'preprint server' for the Biological and Medical Sciences. With the launch of PeerJ PrePrints, the publication ecosystem of PeerJ is now complete. For an academic article, publication in a peer reviewed journal is simply… Read More
BioOne and OpenAIRE partner to maximize access to and effectiveness of bioscience research - March 27, 2013
BioOne, the global source for leading edge bioscience research, has announced a new collaborative agreement with OpenAIRE. BioOne will make its entire collection of publications, 176 titles from 132 publishers, available to OpenAIRE for text mining. With this initiative, BioOne seeks to maximise access to critical… Read More
SPARC release open data resource for research funders - March 21, 2013
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has released a new community resource for research funders, titled 'Implementing an Open Data Policy'. This primer addresses key issues that these organisations encounter when considering the adoption and implementation of an open data policy. The guide covers… Read More
Reprints Desk launches Open Access for its document delivery service - March 21, 2013
Research Solutions company Reprints Desk, Inc., US, has announced the launch of a new Open Access (OA) filter for the company's document delivery service that is used by research-driven companies and institutions to acquire single copies of scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles. The OA filter sends customers… Read More
Springer’s interdisciplinary OA journal now indexed in Scopus and PubMed Central - March 20, 2013
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced that its interdisciplinary fully open access journal, SpringerPlus, is now indexed by PubMed Central and Scopus. Consequently, authors publishing with SpringerPlus will enjoy maximum exposure of their research work. The journal is part of SpringerOpen, the publisher's portfolio of… Read More
Peruvian university UPC opts for BioMed Central’s Open Repository - March 20, 2013
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has welcomed its first South American Open Repository client, the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), based in Lima, Peru. Open Repository, a Registered Service Provider (RSP) of DuraSpace, seeks to provide an enhanced service of building, maintaining and… Read More
Semantico supports open-sourcing of ORCID - March 19, 2013
Online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd., UK, has announced its support for the open sourcing of the ORCID codebase onto GitHub. Semantico shares and supports the core principles that drive the open-sourcing of the ORCID project – those of openness and… Read More
