CDL announces new POD and ebook distribution/sales service for books and journals published in eScholarship - October 31, 2012
The California Digital Library has announced a new print-on-demand (POD) and ebook distribution/sales service for books and journals published in eScholarship, the University of California’s open access (OA) publishing platform. This service will enable publishing units within UC to develop hybrid OA business models for their… Read More
British Ecological Society and Wiley Open Access journal Ecology and Evolution announce partnership - October 29, 2012
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a new partnership between the British Ecological Society (BES) and the Wiley Open Access journal Ecology and Evolution. This latest partnership brings the number of high profile journals supporting the open access title to 16. Eleven of… Read More
Carbon Balance and Management names Prof. Burke Hales as co-Editor-in-Chief - October 29, 2012
Carbon Balance and Management, published by open access publisher BioMed Central, has announced the appointment of Prof. Burke Hales from Oregon State University College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, as co-Editor-in-Chief. Prof. Hales will be taking on the role alongside Georgii Alexandrov, and will now… Read More
ISSCR set to launch OA journal, Stem Cell Reports - October 26, 2012
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) has announced the launch of a new online, open-access journal - Stem Cell Reports. With a focus on shorter, single-point articles, Stem Cell Reports will publish high-quality, peer-reviewed research presenting conceptual or practical advances across the breadth of… Read More
BMJ launches six specialty editions of ‘BMJ Open’ for Open Access Week - October 25, 2012
Medical publisher BMJ Group has launched six specialty editions of its online journal, BMJ Open, to coincide with Open Access Week. The editions are meant to showcase BMJ Open's specialist research, and will initially cover dermatology, HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, neurology, obstetrics & gynaecology and oncology. … Read More
BioMed Central, Chinese institution to launch new journal ‘Infectious Diseases of Poverty’ - October 25, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, in partnership with China's National Institute of Parasitic Diseases (NIPD), is set to launch a new journal, Infectious Diseases of Poverty, in Beijing on November 2, 2012 at the Second Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. NIPD is an initiative of… Read More
SAGE’s three new open access journals now open for submissions - October 25, 2012
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that all three of their latest open access journals are now open for submission. The journals are: SAGE Open Medicine, SAGE Open Medical Case Reports and SAGE Open Engineering. All three titles complement SAGE's rapidly expanding portfolio of over 200 titles… Read More
Taylor & Francis to include Routledge journals in open access programme - October 24, 2012
Publisher Taylor & Francis has announced that its Open Select programme will include the majority of journals featured in the Taylor & Francis and Routledge portfolios from January 2013. The number of journals included in the 'hybrid' open access (OA) programme, Taylor & Francis and Routledge… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert releases preview issue of ‘Big Data’ at Strata + Hadoop World event - October 24, 2012
Publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., US, has released a preview issue of Big Data, its new journal, at the Strata + Hadoop World conference in New York City. The publication is projected as a highly innovative, open access journal that will publish peer-reviewed content without author… Read More
New ESF-EMRC Science Policy Briefing report calls for adoption of open access in biomedical sciences - October 23, 2012
The European Science Foundation’s (ESF) membership organisation for all medical research councils in Europe, the European Medical Research Councils (EMRC) has released an ESF-EMRC Science Policy Briefing (SPB) entitled ‘Open Access in Biomedical Research.’ The ESF-EMRC Science Policy Briefing highlights the need to accelerate the adoption… Read More
