JISC’s metadata application profile for repositories to comply with RCUK’s new OA policy - April 19, 2013
Research Councils UK (RCUK)'s revised policy on open access (OA) for publicly-funded research to be disseminated through OA routes is coming into force this month. A new metadata application profile called RIOXX has been developed by JISC and UKOLN to ensure that university institutional repositories can… Read More
Statement calls on universities to provide input on access to federally funded research - April 18, 2013
The Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and Association of Research Libraries (ARL) have released a two-page statement by David E. Shulenburger, APLU's Vice President for Academic Affairs. The statement calls on the research university community to provide input to… Read More
De Gruyter presents new OA model for e-dition titles - April 16, 2013
Academic publisher De Gruyter, Germany, has announced that with its new Open Access model, some 45,000 e-dition titles from the publishing house's backlist can be made freely accessible. Customers can purchase an e-book in the same standard as a work produced normally through De Gruyter's e-dition… Read More
Majority of journals published by Taylor & Francis now comply with RCUK and Wellcome Trust mandates - April 12, 2013
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has announced that more than 1,650 of its journals now comply with The Wellcome Trust and RCUK's open access (OA) policies that came into effect on April 1, 2013. Over 500 of these journals are published on behalf of society partners.… Read More
PeerJ announces first institutions to provide PeerJ memberships to their faculty - April 11, 2013
Academic publisher PeerJ Inc. and PeerJ PrePrints (a preprint server) have announced the first four universities to enter into an institutional arrangement to centrally fund PeerJ membership fees for their faculty. Universities who have already entered into these arrangements for their faculty include Duke University,… Read More
edX collaborates with Stanford University to offer learning platform via open source - April 8, 2013
Stanford University and edX recently announced their collaboration to advance the development of edX's open source learning platform and provide free and open online learning tools for institutions around the world. edX is a not-for-profit online learning enterprise founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute… Read More
OUP journals compliant with RCUK and Wellcome Trust open access policies - April 5, 2013
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced that from April 1, 2013 Oxford journals will be compliant with the Research Councils UK (RCUK) and Wellcome Trust policies on open access (OA). OUP claims to be mission-driven to facilitate the widest possible dissemination of high-quality research.… Read More
Wiley journals comply with new OA policies of UK funders - April 4, 2013
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that the majority of Wiley's journals in its open access publishing program now offers authors funded by The Wellcome Trust and Research Councils UK the opportunity to publish their articles under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY… Read More
ACM expands options for free access to content from ACM Publications - April 3, 2013
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has introduced several policy changes that are seen to increase access to its journals and conference proceedings. The changes are intended to better balance the needs of authors and researchers in the computing community, many of whom have expressed a… Read More
PeerJ unveils PeerJ PrePrints – a new ‘Preprint Server’ for the Biological and Medical Sciences - April 3, 2013
Open Access publisher PeerJ has launched 'PeerJ PrePrints' an entirely new 'preprint server' for the Biological and Medical Sciences. With the launch of PeerJ PrePrints, the publication ecosystem of PeerJ is now complete. For an academic article, publication in a peer reviewed journal is simply… Read More
