UK set to unveil plans for free access to publicly funded research by 2014 - July 16, 2012
The UK government is reportedly set to unveil controversial plans to make publicly funded scientific research immediately available for anyone to read for free by 2014. Under the scheme, research papers that describe work paid for by the British taxpayer will be free online for universities, companies and individuals to… Read More
BMC Medicine article finds open access journals reaching same scientific impact as subscription journals - July 16, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced that its OA journal BMC Medicine has published an article which compares the scientific impact of open access with traditional subscription publishing and has found that both of these publishing business models produce high quality peer reviewed articles. The… Read More
European Research Council joins UK PubMed Central - July 16, 2012
The European Research Council (ERC), one of Europe’s biggest funders of scientific research, has announced that it will be joining UK PubMed Central (UKPMC), the online information service which provides biomedical and health researchers free access to millions of resources at the touch of a button.… Read More
James du Preez named new joint Editor-in-Chief of Biotechnology for Biofuels - July 13, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the appointment of James du Preez of the University of the Free State, South Africa, as joint Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Biotechnology for Biofuels. He succeeds Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal, who retired from her role at the end of June.… Read More
BioMed Central and BGI launch ‘big data’ journal GigaScience - July 11, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, and BGI, one of the world’s largest genomics institutes, have announced the launch of GigaScience, a new open access, open data journal with a scope that embraces all life science research that generates ‘big data’. This launch is a… Read More
Springer and Tsinghua University Press launch new open access journal - July 11, 2012
STM publisher Springer and Tsinghua University Press will jointly publish the new SpringerOpen journal, Journal of Advanced Ceramics (JAC). This new international journal claims to be the only English-language ceramics journal based in China, fully sponsored by the State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine… Read More
The Institution of Engineering and Technology announces OA initiatives - July 10, 2012
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced the launch of a comprehensive, online-only open access journal. With this move, IET is set to become the first engineering, not-for-profit publisher to adopt an open access model. Open access options will also be added to… Read More
Human Genomics publishes first open access articles with BioMed Central - July 9, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that the journal Human Genomics has published its first open access articles. A peer-reviewed journal for geneticists engaged in biomedical and life science research analysing human genome data, the greater visibility afforded by open access is projected to… Read More
Oxford University Press launches new OA journal – Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health - July 6, 2012
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, and the Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Foundation have announced the launch of an open access journal - Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health (EMPH). EMPH publishes original, rigorous applications of evolutionary biology to problems in medicine and public… Read More
Open Access option now available in more than 80 percent of Wiley journals - July 3, 2012
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that its open access option for individual journal articles, OnlineOpen, will be available to authors in 81 percent of the journals it publishes. OnlineOpen gives authors the option to publish an open access paper in their journal… Read More
