Bioscientifica to launch ‘Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Case Reports’ - February 20, 2013
Bioscientifica, the non-profit publishing arm of the Society for Endocrinology, has announced the forthcoming launch of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Case Reports. The new open access product will publish and link together case reports in endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism. The resource is owned by Bioscientifica and… Read More
Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Microbial Biotechnology to publish under OA model - February 20, 2013
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that the Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Microbial Biotechnology have joined the Wiley Open Access publishing programme. All articles in these two journals are now open access and free to view, download and share. … Read More
Cambridge University Press announces Open Access Creative Commons licences for Cambridge Journals - February 19, 2013
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has announced that articles in its Open Access journals can be published with a Creative Commons Attribution licence (‘CC-BY'). This licence allows users and readers to download, read, re-use and re-distribute freely, as long as they acknowledge the original article. … Read More
US Reps introduce FASTR bill to expand access to federally funded research - February 15, 2013
US Representatives Mike Doyle, Kevin Yoder and Zoe Lofgren have introduced legislation – the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR) - to increase the openness, transparency and accessibility of publicly funded research results. FASTR would require federal agencies with annual extramural research budgets of $100 million or… Read More
Wiley to sponsor Statistics2013 video contest, provides access to important Statistics content - February 13, 2013
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, along with over 1,400 highly influential statistical organisations around the globe, is supporting The International Year of Statistics (Statistics2013 – www.statistics2013.org) to promote the importance of statistics to the broader scientific community, business and government… Read More
‘Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene’ launches pre-publication site - February 13, 2013
The pre-publication site of Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, a new open access journal, has been launched, with an introductory video by John Boswell. The nonprofit journal is supported by BioOne and five collaborating academic institutions: Dartmouth, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Colorado… Read More
PeerJ publishes first articles - February 13, 2013
PeerJ, a new academic journal publisher, founded on the principles of affordability, innovation, and Open Access, has published its first articles. PeerJ, launched by Jason Hoyt (formerly at Mendeley and Stanford University) and Peter Binfield (formerly at PLOS ONE), has been shaped from the premise… Read More
Over 12,000 Wiley Online Books to be made available in developing countries via the Research4Life initiative - February 11, 2013
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that its 12,200 Online Books would be made available through the Research4Life initiatives of HINARI, AGORA and OARE, benefitting research and academic communities in 80 low- and middle-income countries including Malawi, Cambodia, and Bolivia. Research4Life provides 6,000… Read More
ALPSP submits response to BIS Select Committee inquiry on open access publishing - February 11, 2013
The UK's Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) is conducting a Select Committee inquiry into the government's open access (OA) policy. The ALPSP has submitted a response to the inquiry, which closed on February 7, 2013. The inquiry focuses on four main topics. The… Read More
NISO unveils project to develop standards for open access metadata and indicators - February 8, 2013
The voting members of the US' National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved a new project to develop standardised bibliographic metadata and visual indicators to describe the accessibility of journal articles with respect to how 'open' they are. It has been observed that many offerings… Read More
