RSC Gold for Gold OA initiative is ‘ingenious,’ says UK Minister for Universities and Science - May 16, 2013
The Royal Society of Chemistry's (RSC) Gold for Gold open access initiative was recently declared 'ingenious' by David Willetts MP, UK Minister for Universities and Science. The minister was giving evidence on open access to the House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee. When asked… Read More
UNESCO announces new Open Access policy - May 16, 2013
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), a specialised agency of the United Nations (UN), has announced that it will make its digital publications available to millions of people around the world free-of-charge with an open license. Following a decision by the Organisation's Executive… Read More
New IEEE OA journal aims to boost technology innovation - May 15, 2013
Technical professional organisation IEEE, US, is seeking to increase the impact that scientific research can have on technology innovation with its first online, open-access (OA) 'mega journal' – a journal that covers a range of disciplines instead of a single-topic focus. IEEE Access provides free… Read More
CCC joins Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association - May 15, 2013
Licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), which offers a forum for bringing together the entire Open Access community. CCC currently works with many of OASPA's members on issues such as collecting Article Processing… Read More
California OA bill clears state’s Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee - May 13, 2013
A bill that would require California-funded research to be deposited in open access repositories recently passed the state's Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee. The bill was the brainchild of California Council on Science & Tech Fellow Annabelle Kleist. Assemblyman Brian Nestande (R-Palm Desert) introduced the… Read More
IOP Publishing and NIMS announce new agreement for continued publication of STAM - May 13, 2013
IOP Publishing, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Institute of Physics, has announced a new three year agreement with the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) for the continued publication of the open access title Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM). Beginning July 2013… Read More
Stem Cell Research & Therapy now accepting research submissions for special series focusing on cardiovascular regeneration - April 30, 2013
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its journal Stem Cell Research & Therapy is now accepting research submissions for consideration in a special series focusing on cardiovascular regeneration. The publication of these articles will be coordinated, with a series of commissioned reviews… Read More
Maney Publishing offers free access to Health Sciences content for fourteen days - April 30, 2013
Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, is running the second in a series of 'Free Access 14' campaigns from May 13-26, 2013. For fourteen days Maney is making all 26 journals within its Health Sciences Collection freely available. Interested parties may gain access to content, which includes… Read More
SPIE ‘gold’ open access program meets new needs of UK authors - April 24, 2013
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, recently adopted an open access publishing program that supports the needs of authors seeking open access publication. This includes authors affected by new rules adopted in the UK by the Research Councils UK (RCUK). The RCUK recently… Read More
F1000Research drives evolution of open science publishing - April 23, 2013
F1000Research, an Open Access life-sciences journal launched in January 2013, has pioneered a uniquely fast and transparent Open Science Publishing model enabling research papers to be published within a week. After analysing its first few months, F1000Research shares that on average, articles go live within seven… Read More
