Wrong OA policy may hurt UK’s publishing industry, says RSC chief - April 20, 2012
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has responded to the Research Councils UK (RCUK)’s Proposed Policy on Access to Research Outputs to help inform RCUK on enhancing scientific communications in a sustainable manner. Adopting the wrong open access (OA) model would ‘destroy scientific communications’, RSC chief… Read More
BioMed Central launches new OA journal – Agriculture & Food Security - April 20, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the launch of a new open access journal Agriculture & Food Security. The journal recently launched as a venue for research addressing the challenge of global food security, with a particular focus on sustainable agriculture and food systems… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert offers complimentary issues of 3 journals for Earth Day - April 20, 2012
Publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., US, has announced that a complimentary issue of three journals - Sustainability: The Journal of Record; Environmental Justice; and Ecopsychology – are available online in recognition of Earth Day, April 22, 2012. The journals are said to contain informative, thought-provoking and… Read More
Springer and EMS call on mathematical community to contribute to articles on the Encyclopedia of Mathematics open access wiki - April 19, 2012
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media and the European Mathematical Society (EMS) partnered to transform the Encyclopedia of Mathematics(EoM) into an open access wiki for the mathematics community in late 2011. In the first six months since its launch, the site has already attracted more than 500,000… Read More
OAPEN unveils beta version of Directory of Open Access Books - April 16, 2012
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) has announced the launch of the Directory of Open Access Books, a discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an Open Access license. OAPEN is a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a sustainable… Read More
Wellcome Trust backs campaign for open access academic journals - April 10, 2012
The UK’s Wellcome Trust has reportedly announced its support for a campaign to break the stranglehold of academic journals and allow all research papers to be shared free online. Wellcome's move is expected to add weight to the campaign for open access… Read More
UNESCO releases Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access - April 9, 2012
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has released a new publication entitled Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access to demystify the concept of Open Access and provide concrete steps on putting relevant policies in place. Besides strengthening capacities… Read More
FPRAA takes Center Stage at Congressional hearing - April 2, 2012
The U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight recently conducted a hearing on the topic ‘Examining Public Access and Scholarly Publication Interests.’ The hearing was designed to generate information regarding open access in general, but quickly turned into a discussion of the recently… Read More
US panel clears publication of revised version of bird flu studies - April 2, 2012
The US’ National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) recently announced its support to publish research studies showing how scientists made new easy-to-spread forms of bird flu. According to the board, the studies, now revised, do not reveal details bioterrorists could use.… Read More
Journal Microbiome now accepting submissions - April 2, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its new open access journal Microbiome is now accepting submissions. Microbiome aims to unite investigators conducting research in environmental, agricultural and biomedical aspects of microbial ecology. Edited by Jacques Ravel of the University of Maryland School… Read More
