F1000Research articles to be listed in PubMed and deposited in PubMed Central - January 16, 2013
F1000Research, the first Open Science publisher, has announced that articles published in its innovative publishing system will be listed in PubMed, which claims to be the largest and most-used biomedical literature database. F1000Research is F1000’s new open access publishing program that offers immediate publication followed… Read More
Health Information Science and Systems publishes inaugural articles with BioMed Central - January 11, 2013
Health Information Science and Systems (HISS) has published its inaugural articles with open access publisher BioMed Central. HISS is a multidisciplinary journal that aims to use technologies in computer science to assist in disease diagnoses, treatment, prediction and monitoring through the modelling, design, development, visualisation, integration… Read More
F1000Research comes out of beta - January 9, 2013
F1000Research, the first Open Science publisher, has launched following a successful beta testing phase. Launching on a new publishing platform, F1000Research is F1000's new Open Science publishing program for life scientists, offering researchers for the first time: immediate publication; transparent and fast peer review post-publication; and… Read More
Biochemical Society and Portland Press announce free to all journals - January 7, 2013
The Biochemical Society and its wholly owned subsidiary, Portland Press Limited, a not-for-profit publisher, have announced that all of its subscription-based journals have been made entirely free to access online. This access is only available until midnight on January 31, 2013. Now freely available, research… Read More
‘eLife’ inaugural issue covers protein models and foreign DNA-detecting enzymes - December 28, 2012
Better models of proteins, the mathematics of malaria, and an enzyme that detects foreign DNA are among the first contents of a new life sciences journal, eLife, launched earlier this month. The open access journal promises to get papers online faster, linking them with plain language… Read More
Stanford neurosurgeon launches new OA medical journal - December 28, 2012
Stanford neurosurgeon Dr. John Adler has launched a new open-source medical journal that leverages crowdsourcing to make scientific research more readily available to the general public. Curēus is an 'open source' online medical journal that shares materials for free and allows researchers to publish their… Read More
World Allergy Organization’s official journal moves to BioMed Central’s OA publishing platform - December 21, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that the World Allergy Organization Journal (WAO Journal), the official journal of the World Allergy Organization (WAO), is moving to BioMed Central's open access publishing platform. The journal will join the publisher's growing open access allergy portfolio. … Read More
Jisc welcomes the launch of Futurelearn - December 17, 2012
Jisc has welcomed the announcement by the Open University to bring together a range of free, open, online courses from leading UK universities through MOOCs (massively open online courses). Jisc has been supporting activity within online learning across the UK to enhance the learner experience and… Read More
Website for new open-access journal, eLife, launched - December 17, 2012
eLife, a new open-access journal for outstanding advances in life science and biomedicine, reveals a fresh approach to presenting and using scientific content on its new website. In June 2011, three leading research funders came together in a unique collaboration to inspire change in science… Read More
MedOANet project unveils online tool, Open Access Tracker - December 12, 2012
MedOANet (Mediterranean Open Access Network), a two-year project funded under the Science in Society Programme of the EC 7th Framework Programme, has announced the release of the Open Access Tracker, an online tool. The project seeks to enhance existing policies, strategies and structures for open… Read More
