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
Cambridge University Press waives author charges for new OA mathematics journals - July 3, 2012
Cambridge Journals, a division of Cambridge University Press (CUP), UK, has announced the launch of two new open access (OA) journals in mathematics - Forum of Mathematics, Pi and Forum of Mathematics, Sigma. Cambridge has established the Forum of Mathematics to offer OA journals to… Read More
AAP supports Finch report recommendations for expanding access to research publications - June 29, 2012
The Association of American Publishers has joined stakeholders across the worldwide scientific community in commending ideas set forth by the Finch Group report, the British government-funded project to identify sustainable strategies that could effectively expand access to published scientific research. The report, ‘Accessibility, Sustainability, Excellence: How… Read More
IBZ Online database now features 1,323 OA journals - June 29, 2012
Academic publisher De Gruyter, Germany, has announced that IBZ Online, an international index of journal literature in the humanities and social sciences, now lists 1,323 open access journals that have never before been systematically indexed. IBZ Online will now add an additional 5,000 journal issues to… Read More
Wellcome Trust toughens OA policy - June 28, 2012
The Wellcome Trust, UK, has announced that it will be strengthening the manner in which it enforces its open access policy with immediate effect. Failure to comply with the policy could result in final grant payments being withheld and non-compliant publications being discounted when applying for… Read More
