RSC head welcomes House of Lords tech committee’s report on open access - February 26, 2013
Dr Robert Parker, Chief Executive of the UK's Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), has welcomed the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee's report on the implementation of open access (OA). According to Dr Parker, the outcomes of the inquiry respond directly to the serious… Read More
SPARC welcomes directive mooting open access to publicly funded research - February 25, 2013
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has applauded US President Barack Obama for issuing a directive to ensure that the results of taxpayer-funded research – both articles and data – are made available to the general public to freely access and fully use. The… Read More
Wiley launches Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences combining The Radiographer and Shadows - February 25, 2013
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced the launch of Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences (JMRS), combining The Radiographer (now in its 60th volume) from the Australian Institute of Radiography (AIR) and Shadows (in its 56th Volume) from the New Zealand Institute of Medical… Read More
Taylor & Francis joins Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association - February 25, 2013
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis, UK, will join the community of open access (OA) publishers that are part of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). OASPA represents the interest of OA publishers globally within scientific and technical disciplines; advancing OA models, advocacy, education, and innovation… Read More
Bioscientifica to launch ‘Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Case Reports’ - February 20, 2013
Bioscientifica, the non-profit publishing arm of the Society for Endocrinology, has announced the forthcoming launch of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Case Reports. The new open access product will publish and link together case reports in endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism. The resource is owned by Bioscientifica and… Read More
Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Microbial Biotechnology to publish under OA model - February 20, 2013
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that the Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Microbial Biotechnology have joined the Wiley Open Access publishing programme. All articles in these two journals are now open access and free to view, download and share. … Read More
Cambridge University Press announces Open Access Creative Commons licences for Cambridge Journals - February 19, 2013
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has announced that articles in its Open Access journals can be published with a Creative Commons Attribution licence (‘CC-BY'). This licence allows users and readers to download, read, re-use and re-distribute freely, as long as they acknowledge the original article. … Read More
US Reps introduce FASTR bill to expand access to federally funded research - February 15, 2013
US Representatives Mike Doyle, Kevin Yoder and Zoe Lofgren have introduced legislation – the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR) - to increase the openness, transparency and accessibility of publicly funded research results. FASTR would require federal agencies with annual extramural research budgets of $100 million or… Read More
Wiley to sponsor Statistics2013 video contest, provides access to important Statistics content - February 13, 2013
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, along with over 1,400 highly influential statistical organisations around the globe, is supporting The International Year of Statistics (Statistics2013 – www.statistics2013.org) to promote the importance of statistics to the broader scientific community, business and government… Read More
‘Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene’ launches pre-publication site - February 13, 2013
The pre-publication site of Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, a new open access journal, has been launched, with an introductory video by John Boswell. The nonprofit journal is supported by BioOne and five collaborating academic institutions: Dartmouth, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Colorado… Read More
