Ex Libris launches self-registration service, expands support for OA - January 28, 2013
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has launched a self-registration service enabling institutions to easily add the contents of their institutional repository (IR) to the Primo Central Index of scholarly electronic materials and thus expand the breadth of IR content in the index. Institutional… Read More
SAGE Open author publication fee discounted to $99 per article - January 25, 2013
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that the price of publication in SAGE Open has been discounted to $99 per article. SAGE Open, launched in May 2011, was the world's first broad-based gold open access journal for the social sciences and humanities. With this move, the publisher… Read More
The Max Planck Society and De Gruyter in deal to publish open access books - January 25, 2013
Research organisation Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft), Germany, and academic publishing house De Gruyter have signed an agreement to cooperate in the publication of Open Access books. The agreement covers texts intended for publication by scholars at the more than 80 individual Max Planck institutes working… Read More
Jisc Collections, Open Access Key to launch UK Gold OA article payments pilot - January 24, 2013
Jisc Collections, the UK academic community's shared service for content licensing and administration, has entered into an agreement with Open Access Key (OAK), an online payment platform for open access (OA) publishing, to run a 12 month pilot project, Jisc APC. The pilot will test the… Read More
New open-access medical journal CMAJ Open set to launch - January 23, 2013
CMAJ Open, a new online open-access research journal from the same family as the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), will begin publishing late January 2013. The journal is owned by the Canadian Medical Association (CMA). CMAJ Open will publish high-quality, peer-reviewed medical research papers without… Read More
Maney Publishing offers free access to Materials Science & Engineering Collection for fourteen days - January 22, 2013
Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has announced that it is running 'Free Access 14' from February 4 – 18, 2013. Under the initiative, Maney will make all the journals in the Materials Science & Engineering Collection freely available for fourteen days. All those who complete the… Read More
RCUK unveils statement to promote equality and diversity in research - January 21, 2013
Research Councils UK (RCUK) has unveiled its new Statement of Expectations for Equality and Diversity, which is intended to drive more rapid cultural change in the management of equality and diversity in institutions receiving Research Council funding. In line with legislation in the Equality Act… Read More
BioMed Central launches Journal of Eating Disorders - January 21, 2013
Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced the launch of the Journal of Eating Disorders. This journal launch marks a significant development in this area of research. It claims to be the first open access journal of its kind. Journal of Eating Disorders is co-edited… Read More
French group offers comments on EC recommendations on OA publication - January 21, 2013
The European Commission had issued a recommendation encouraging the Member States to make necessary arrangements to disseminate publicly funded research through open access (OA) publication, as soon as possible, preferably immediately and in any case within 6 or 12 months after the date of publication, depending… Read More
Springer and Scion collaborate to publish New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science - January 18, 2013
STM publisher Springer and Scion, a New Zealand Crown Research Institute, will cooperate to publish the New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science, starting in January 2013. As of Volume 43, Issue 1, the journal will be part of the SpringerOpen portfolio. As a fully sponsored open… Read More
