‘eLife’ inaugural issue covers protein models and foreign DNA-detecting enzymes - December 28, 2012
Better models of proteins, the mathematics of malaria, and an enzyme that detects foreign DNA are among the first contents of a new life sciences journal, eLife, launched earlier this month. The open access journal promises to get papers online faster, linking them with plain language… Read More
Stanford neurosurgeon launches new OA medical journal - December 28, 2012
Stanford neurosurgeon Dr. John Adler has launched a new open-source medical journal that leverages crowdsourcing to make scientific research more readily available to the general public. Curēus is an 'open source' online medical journal that shares materials for free and allows researchers to publish their… Read More
World Allergy Organization’s official journal moves to BioMed Central’s OA publishing platform - December 21, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that the World Allergy Organization Journal (WAO Journal), the official journal of the World Allergy Organization (WAO), is moving to BioMed Central's open access publishing platform. The journal will join the publisher's growing open access allergy portfolio. … Read More
Jisc welcomes the launch of Futurelearn - December 17, 2012
Jisc has welcomed the announcement by the Open University to bring together a range of free, open, online courses from leading UK universities through MOOCs (massively open online courses). Jisc has been supporting activity within online learning across the UK to enhance the learner experience and… Read More
Website for new open-access journal, eLife, launched - December 17, 2012
eLife, a new open-access journal for outstanding advances in life science and biomedicine, reveals a fresh approach to presenting and using scientific content on its new website. In June 2011, three leading research funders came together in a unique collaboration to inspire change in science… Read More
MedOANet project unveils online tool, Open Access Tracker - December 12, 2012
MedOANet (Mediterranean Open Access Network), a two-year project funded under the Science in Society Programme of the EC 7th Framework Programme, has announced the release of the Open Access Tracker, an online tool. The project seeks to enhance existing policies, strategies and structures for open… Read More
RSC to take Gold for Gold open access initiative global in 2013 - December 11, 2012
The UK's Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced that it is now rolling out its 'Gold for Gold' open access (OA) initiative worldwide. This follows a successful pilot in the UK. 'Gold for Gold' was launched in July this year, as an innovative experiment to… Read More
NPG and the Australasian Society for Immunology launch new OA journal – Clinical & Translational Immunology - December 5, 2012
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that Clinical & Translational Immunology (CTI), a new online-only open access journal, is live at www.nature.com/cti. Published by NPG and the Australasian Society for Immunology (ASI), the official launch coincides with the annual… Read More
IEEE Computer Society launches OA journal on emerging topics in computing setting - December 4, 2012
The IEEE Computer Society has launched a new open-access journal on emerging topics in computing setting the pace for providing authors with new options for publishing. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC) publishes papers on emerging aspects of computer science, computer engineering, information… Read More
Elsevier launches new OA journal – Case Studies in Engineering Failure Analysis - November 29, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new, international, open access journal, Case Studies in Engineering Failure Analysis. Richard Clegg will serve as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. Case Studies in Engineering Failure Analysis seeks to provide a forum for the rapid publication… Read More
