‘Perioperative Medicine’ launches with new guidelines on fluid management in surgery - June 28, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has launched a new journal titled Perioperative Medicine. In its introductory edition, the journal offers guidelines for fluid management during surgery. The consensus statement was agreed by the clinical leaders of the English Enhanced Recovery Partnership, set up by the… Read More
Scientific Reports offer authors Creative Commons Attribution license - June 27, 2012
Scientific Reports, a Nature Publishing Group publication, is introducing the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license as an option for authors. The CC-BY license will be available to authors submitting articles on or after July 1, 2012, in addition to the two non-commercial Creative Commons licenses currently… Read More
eLife calls for submissions for its new OA journal - June 25, 2012
eLife, the new funder-researcher collaboration in science communication, has announced that it is currently accepting submissions for its new journal. The open-access ‘eLife’ journal will be the keystone in the initiative’s efforts to lead change in scientific publishing. The 'eLife' journal is set for launch at the end of 2012.… Read More
SAGE partners with University of North Carolina Greensboro on SAGE Open - June 21, 2012
Academic publisher SAGE and the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNC Greensboro) have announced a partnership designed to encourage social science and humanities faculty and students at the university to publish in SAGE Open. Launched by SAGE in 2011, SAGE Open claims to be the first… Read More
SAGE expands OA publishing portfolio - June 18, 2012
Academic and professional publisher SAGE has announced the launch of a further three broad-spectrum open access journals - SAGE Open Medicine, SAGE Open Medical Case Reports and SAGE Open Engineering. The journals will be open for submissions later in the summer of 2012. The new… Read More
UK govt. looking to open up access to publicly funded research - June 18, 2012
Scientific papers will soon be available freely online to the public in a UK government-backed project to open up knowledge at the expense of Britain's academic publishers, according to a report published in The Independent. The Coalition plans to stop publicly funded research going behind the… Read More
eLife selects HighWire platform for new OA journal - June 13, 2012
HighWire Press, a not-for-profit division of Stanford University Libraries, has announced that it has been selected by eLife, the new funder-researcher collaboration in science communication, as the platform for the latter’s new open access journal for life and biomedical science. First announced in summer 2011,… Read More
Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine journal publishes first OA articles with BioMed Central - June 12, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced that the journal Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine has published its first open access articles with the publisher. The journal, originally published by Novamedia srl, launched in 2006 as the official scientific journal of the Interdisciplinary Association for Research in Lung… Read More
New open access publisher PeerJ launches publication - June 12, 2012
PeerJ Inc., a new US-based open access academic publishing company, has formally announced its launch. Founded by academic publishing and technology professionals from PLoS ONE and Mendeley, PeerJ will publish a broad based, rapid, peer-reviewed journal, PeerJ, and a preprint server, PeerJ PrePrints. PeerJ will open… Read More
Utah State University adopts open access policy - June 11, 2012
Utah State University (USU) has joined an emerging national trend and the ranks of a growing number of the US’ universities in adopting an official open access (OA) policy. USU’s University Libraries headed the effort. The new OA policy - officially known at USU as… Read More
