PeerJ publishes first articles - February 13, 2013
PeerJ, a new academic journal publisher, founded on the principles of affordability, innovation, and Open Access, has published its first articles. PeerJ, launched by Jason Hoyt (formerly at Mendeley and Stanford University) and Peter Binfield (formerly at PLOS ONE), has been shaped from the premise… Read More
Over 12,000 Wiley Online Books to be made available in developing countries via the Research4Life initiative - February 11, 2013
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that its 12,200 Online Books would be made available through the Research4Life initiatives of HINARI, AGORA and OARE, benefitting research and academic communities in 80 low- and middle-income countries including Malawi, Cambodia, and Bolivia. Research4Life provides 6,000… Read More
ALPSP submits response to BIS Select Committee inquiry on open access publishing - February 11, 2013
The UK's Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) is conducting a Select Committee inquiry into the government's open access (OA) policy. The ALPSP has submitted a response to the inquiry, which closed on February 7, 2013. The inquiry focuses on four main topics. The… Read More
NISO unveils project to develop standards for open access metadata and indicators - February 8, 2013
The voting members of the US' National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved a new project to develop standardised bibliographic metadata and visual indicators to describe the accessibility of journal articles with respect to how 'open' they are. It has been observed that many offerings… Read More
Cambridge University Press and Chinese Laser Press to launch OA journal – High Power Laser Science and Engineering - February 8, 2013
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press and Chinese Laser Press will be launching a new open access journal from 2013. The new journal, High Power Laser Science and Engineering (HPLaser), will be an online-only (printed version available only in China), international and peer-reviewed journal focusing on… Read More
Oxford University Press to publish new OA journal Conservation Physiology - February 1, 2013
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced the launch of Conservation Physiology, an open access journal, edited by a team of experts headed up by Steven Cooke, from Carleton University, Canada. The journal is published on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) which… Read More
Journal of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery joins BioMed Central - February 1, 2013
Journal of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, the official publication of the Canadian Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, has published its first articles following transfer to open access publisher BioMed Central. The journal publishes original research, reviews, commentaries and short reports on all aspects and… Read More
Elsevier launches new OA journal – Molecular Metabolism - January 29, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new, open access journal, Molecular Metabolism, in affiliation with the German Research Center for Environmental Health (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany) and the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD, Germany). Molecular Metabolism is devoted to the… Read More
Physics Research Promotion Center of Taiwan to join SCOAP3 - January 29, 2013
The Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) has announced that the Physics Research Promotion Center of Taiwan has expressed its interest in joining the SCOAP3 consortium, representing the contribution of Taiwan. With this new participation, the SCOAP3 partnership now includes hundreds… Read More
Palgrave Macmillan announces OA option for monographs and Palgrave Pivot publications - January 29, 2013
Academic publisher Palgrave Macmillan has announced that it will offer authors and their funders the option to publish open access (OA) research across all publication formats. Palgrave Macmillan journal articles, monographs and Palgrave Pivot publications can now be made available with immediate open access upon… Read More
