BioMed Central announces initiatives to increase visibility of scientific research from Africa - June 10, 2011
Open access publisher BioMed Central is working to increase the visibility of scientific research from Africa with a set of initiatives designed to encourage African researchers to publish their work in open access journals. The publisher has announced that its 2nd Open Access Africa conference… Read More
Duke University Libraries offer new tools and support for OA publishing - June 9, 2011
Duke University Libraries has announced a new service to help members of the Duke community create and publish peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journals. The move is part of its efforts to promote broader access to academic research. The Libraries' new service is expected to help prospective… Read More
AIP and NIST partner to make semiconductor research freely available online - June 7, 2011
AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics, has announced an agreement with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to make semiconductor research freely available online. Proceedings papers from the entire International Conference on Frontiers of Characterization and… Read More
Journal Clinical Proteomics joins BioMed Central OA portfolio - June 3, 2011
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has launched Clinical Proteomics, with Dr Daniel Chan as Editor-in-Chief. Previously published by Springer, the journal has joined BioMed Central's portfolio of open-access titles. Clinical Proteomics launches with a number of interesting articles, including an article from Mehrani et… Read More
IOP Publishing introduces open access option on 23 subscription-based journals - June 3, 2011
Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, is introducing an open access publishing option on 23 subscription-based journals, effective immediately. This 'hybrid open access model' is being introduced to support authors who wish to publish on an open access basis, or who are mandated… Read More
Free access to research articles on E. coli bacteria available on SpringerLink - June 2, 2011
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media has announced that it is offering all journal articles and book chapters which deal with the E. coli bacteria free of charge on its online information platform www.springerlink.com. The articles can be found by using the search… Read More
Nature Communications celebrates first anniversary, publishes 300th research paper in the natural sciences - June 1, 2011
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that its journal Nature Communications recently celebrated its first successful year, publishing its 300th research paper in the natural sciences. Launched in April 2010, nearly half of the papers published in Nature Communications to date are open… Read More
New SPARC open access Journal Publishing Resource Index helps streamline launch and operation of OA journals - May 30, 2011
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has released a free online Open Access Journal Publishing Resource Index (http://www.arl.org/sparc/partnering) with information and documents to support the launch and operation of an open-access journal. Materials in the index will help libraries, presses,… Read More
‘BMJ Open’ authors allowed to share original raw data - May 27, 2011
Medical information provider BMJ Group, UK, has announced that authors whose research is accepted for publication in one of its most recent online-only titles, BMJ Open, can now share the original raw data for their study. They can do so on or after publication. BMJ… Read More
Springer set to launch new open access journal – Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences - May 25, 2011
STM publisher Springer is set to launch a new open access journal, Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS). Scheduled for launch in June 2011, the journal will become part of the SpringerOpen portfolio. It will be fully sponsored by the Korea-based Future Technology Research Association International… Read More
