Cambridge University Press and Chinese Laser Press to launch OA journal – High Power Laser Science and Engineering - February 8, 2013
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press and Chinese Laser Press will be launching a new open access journal from 2013. The new journal, High Power Laser Science and Engineering (HPLaser), will be an online-only (printed version available only in China), international and peer-reviewed journal focusing on… Read More
Oxford University Press to publish new OA journal Conservation Physiology - February 1, 2013
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced the launch of Conservation Physiology, an open access journal, edited by a team of experts headed up by Steven Cooke, from Carleton University, Canada. The journal is published on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) which… Read More
Journal of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery joins BioMed Central - February 1, 2013
Journal of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, the official publication of the Canadian Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, has published its first articles following transfer to open access publisher BioMed Central. The journal publishes original research, reviews, commentaries and short reports on all aspects and… Read More
Elsevier launches new OA journal – Molecular Metabolism - January 29, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new, open access journal, Molecular Metabolism, in affiliation with the German Research Center for Environmental Health (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany) and the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD, Germany). Molecular Metabolism is devoted to the… Read More
Physics Research Promotion Center of Taiwan to join SCOAP3 - January 29, 2013
The Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) has announced that the Physics Research Promotion Center of Taiwan has expressed its interest in joining the SCOAP3 consortium, representing the contribution of Taiwan. With this new participation, the SCOAP3 partnership now includes hundreds… Read More
Palgrave Macmillan announces OA option for monographs and Palgrave Pivot publications - January 29, 2013
Academic publisher Palgrave Macmillan has announced that it will offer authors and their funders the option to publish open access (OA) research across all publication formats. Palgrave Macmillan journal articles, monographs and Palgrave Pivot publications can now be made available with immediate open access upon… Read More
Ex Libris launches self-registration service, expands support for OA - January 28, 2013
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has launched a self-registration service enabling institutions to easily add the contents of their institutional repository (IR) to the Primo Central Index of scholarly electronic materials and thus expand the breadth of IR content in the index. Institutional… Read More
SAGE Open author publication fee discounted to $99 per article - January 25, 2013
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that the price of publication in SAGE Open has been discounted to $99 per article. SAGE Open, launched in May 2011, was the world's first broad-based gold open access journal for the social sciences and humanities. With this move, the publisher… Read More
The Max Planck Society and De Gruyter in deal to publish open access books - January 25, 2013
Research organisation Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft), Germany, and academic publishing house De Gruyter have signed an agreement to cooperate in the publication of Open Access books. The agreement covers texts intended for publication by scholars at the more than 80 individual Max Planck institutes working… Read More
Jisc Collections, Open Access Key to launch UK Gold OA article payments pilot - January 24, 2013
Jisc Collections, the UK academic community's shared service for content licensing and administration, has entered into an agreement with Open Access Key (OAK), an online payment platform for open access (OA) publishing, to run a 12 month pilot project, Jisc APC. The pilot will test the… Read More
