BMJ launches six specialty editions of ‘BMJ Open’ for Open Access Week - October 25, 2012
Medical publisher BMJ Group has launched six specialty editions of its online journal, BMJ Open, to coincide with Open Access Week. The editions are meant to showcase BMJ Open's specialist research, and will initially cover dermatology, HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, neurology, obstetrics & gynaecology and oncology. … Read More
BioMed Central, Chinese institution to launch new journal ‘Infectious Diseases of Poverty’ - October 25, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, in partnership with China's National Institute of Parasitic Diseases (NIPD), is set to launch a new journal, Infectious Diseases of Poverty, in Beijing on November 2, 2012 at the Second Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. NIPD is an initiative of… Read More
SAGE’s three new open access journals now open for submissions - October 25, 2012
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that all three of their latest open access journals are now open for submission. The journals are: SAGE Open Medicine, SAGE Open Medical Case Reports and SAGE Open Engineering. All three titles complement SAGE's rapidly expanding portfolio of over 200 titles… Read More
Taylor & Francis to include Routledge journals in open access programme - October 24, 2012
Publisher Taylor & Francis has announced that its Open Select programme will include the majority of journals featured in the Taylor & Francis and Routledge portfolios from January 2013. The number of journals included in the 'hybrid' open access (OA) programme, Taylor & Francis and Routledge… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert releases preview issue of ‘Big Data’ at Strata + Hadoop World event - October 24, 2012
Publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., US, has released a preview issue of Big Data, its new journal, at the Strata + Hadoop World conference in New York City. The publication is projected as a highly innovative, open access journal that will publish peer-reviewed content without author… Read More
New ESF-EMRC Science Policy Briefing report calls for adoption of open access in biomedical sciences - October 23, 2012
The European Science Foundation’s (ESF) membership organisation for all medical research councils in Europe, the European Medical Research Councils (EMRC) has released an ESF-EMRC Science Policy Briefing (SPB) entitled ‘Open Access in Biomedical Research.’ The ESF-EMRC Science Policy Briefing highlights the need to accelerate the adoption… Read More
Taylor & Francis Open journals adopt CC-BY license - October 23, 2012
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has announced the adoption of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license by its journals Open programme from the end of October 2012. For Taylor & Francis-owned Open titles, published under the Routledge Open and Taylor & Francis Open imprints, the… Read More
Journal editors express support for new open access option announced by SPIE - October 23, 2012
Journal editors are expressing enthusiastic support for a new open access option announced recently by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. The new program provides Gold Open Access upon publication for a journal article for which authors or their institutions pay voluntary page… Read More
Maney Publishing announces special prices for OA publication to support Open Access Week - October 22, 2012
Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has announced its support for the Open Access Week with special prices for OA publication. Throughout Open Access Week, the publisher is highlighting its hybrid open access model, MORE OpenChoice, and reducing author fees in order to encourage open access publication.… Read More
New open access journal eLife publishes first four research articles - October 16, 2012
eLife, a new open access journal for outstanding scientific advancements, has published its first four research articles. The journal is being published by eLife, a collaboration between the funders and practitioners of research to communicate discoveries in the life and biomedical sciences in the most effective… Read More
