RSC pledges £1 million aid for UK chemical science researchers to publish OA papers - September 12, 2012
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has recently pledged £1 million to aid UK chemical science researchers to publish open access (OA) papers in RSC journals. This gesture has now been followed by the UK government, with an announcement on that it will invest £10 million… Read More
UK govt. invests £10 million to help universities move to open access - September 10, 2012
The UK government has announced a £10 million investment to help universities with the transition to open access to publicly-funded research findings. The investment is expected to enable a number of research-intensive UK institutions to kick-start the process of developing policies and setting up funds to meet the costs of… Read More
PLoS launches PLOS Global Participation Initiative to encourage submissions from researchers worldwide - September 5, 2012
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) has announced the launch of the PLOS Global Participation Initiative, which aims to encourage submissions from researchers around the world who may previously have been prevented or limited in their ability to publish in open-access journals. With this initiative,… Read More
Wiley joins Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association - August 31, 2012
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced its new membership of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). OASPA represents the interests of open access journal publishers globally in all scientific, technical and scholarly disciplines and enables exchange of information, setting standards, advancing models,… Read More
Springer unveils fully open access option for books - August 29, 2012
STM publisher Springer, Germany, plans to expand its open access (OA) programme by offering a fully OA option for books. This is expected to extend the company's SpringerOpen and BioMed Central journal portfolio, and its Springer Open Choice option. Any electronic version of a SpringerOpen book… Read More
SPIE launches new open access programme for journals - August 23, 2012
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced a new programme that provides Gold Open Access upon publication for a journal article for which authors or their institutions pay voluntary page charges, beginning in January 2013. Authors will retain copyright under the Creative Commons… Read More
WK Health launches OvidOpenAccess to support the research needs of the global medical community - August 17, 2012
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced the release of OvidOpenAccess, a new search discovery feature that integrates thousands of Open Access (OA) resources within the OvidSP platform. OvidSP users can now conduct a single search query to uncover relevant answers to… Read More
Wiley journals adopt CC-BY licence allowing commercial use of published articles - August 15, 2012
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced revised licensing arrangements for proprietary journals published under the Wiley Open Access programme. The journals will adopt the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence which allows commercial use of published articles. The Wiley Open Access portfolio… Read More
SAGE and UC Berkeley partner to encourage social science and humanities faculty and students to publish in SAGE Open - August 7, 2012
Academic publisher SAGE and the University of California, Berkeley, through its Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII), have announced a partnership designed to encourage social science and humanities faculty and students at the university to make their work available to all by publishing in SAGE Open. Launched… Read More
Moroccan oncology institute joins BioMed Central’s Foundation Member initiative - August 2, 2012
Open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its initiative Foundation Member has signed up its tenth member, the National Institute of Oncology in Rabat, Morocco. The institute is one of two public oncology centres in Morocco providing free care and treatment for cancer… Read More
