Mary Ann Liebert offers complimentary online access to Breastfeeding Medicine journal - August 2, 2012
Publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., US, has announced complimentary online access to 2011 and 2012 published issues of the journal Breastfeeding Medicine for the entire month of August, in recognition of the World Breastfeeding week. Breastfeeding Medicine is the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding… Read More
BioMed Central’s Pharmaphorum examines innovation through open access publishing - August 1, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that an article for Pharmaphorum, a news and community site for pharma research, looks at the opportunities for clinical trial development and dissemination offered by open access publishing. The article discusses the steps taken by BioMed's trial… Read More
Elsevier launches new OA journal – Applied and Translational Genomics - July 31, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new open access journal, Applied and Translational Genomics. The journal is dedicated to publishing articles on applied genomics and translational research. The completion of the human genome project gave way to research that takes the… Read More
NPG’s new journal ‘Emerging Microbes and Infections’ goes live - July 26, 2012
The journal Emerging Microbes & Infections (EMI), launched earlier this month, has gone live at www.nature.com/emi, publishing original research to a broad global audience. The journal is open access and, according to the publisher, original research papers are accompanied by professionally written research summaries, making the… Read More
JISC, Wellcome Trust initiative to help universities with new OA publishing system - July 25, 2012
New work funded by the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Wellcome Trust, on behalf of the Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG), will look at how they can help universities to manage the charges efficiently for open access (OA) publishing. It will also examine… Read More
Elsevier launches new open access journal on general respiratory medicine - July 20, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, a new online open access journal on general respiratory medicine that is dedicated to publishing case reports. Respiratory Medicine Case Reports has been created to publish case reports previously submitted to its sister… Read More
DARU journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences publishes inaugural articles with BioMed Central - July 20, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences has published its inaugural articles with BioMed Central. Amongst these are an editorial by Editor-in-Chief Mohammad Abdollahi which highlights the need for a quality, open-access journal in the field of pharmaceutical sciences.… Read More
Elsevier announces participation in SCOAP3 with journals Physics Letters B and Nuclear Physics B - July 19, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its participation in SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics), a new model for open access publishing. Key SCOAP3 principles are perpetual open access, wide re-use licenses, and reduction and re-direction of subscription fees to centrally cover… Read More
STM responds to EC communications on scientific information and ERA - July 19, 2012
STM, an international association of over 120 scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishers, has responded to the two communications (on the European Research Area and on access to scientific information) and the European Commission Recommendation on access to and preservation of scientific information. The communications were… Read More
RSC announces £1 million initiative to support British researchers as they begin transition to Gold OA - July 19, 2012
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced a £1 million initiative to support British researchers as they begin the transition to Gold Open Access (OA). 'Gold for Gold' is an innovative experiment to support the funder led evolution to Gold OA, by recognising institutes that… Read More
