Forty nine NPG journals now support Creative Commons through annual donation - March 20, 2012
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that 49 journals it publishes now support Creative Commons through an annual donation. Based on the 1,113 open access articles published in 2011 in these journals, NPG and its partners are donating $22,260 to Creative Commons (CC).… Read More
Pensoft Publishers launch new open-access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal - March 19, 2012
Scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers has announced the launch of a new open access journal - Nature Conservation. The journal joins Pensoft’s family of high technology open-access journals for biodiversity science. Nature Conservation seeks to mobilise ideas and data in all theoretical and applied aspects of… Read More
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice transfers to BioMed Central’s open access publishing platform - March 16, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that the Addiction Science & Clinical Practice journal has joined its portfolio of open access titles. The journal was previously published by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Addiction Science & Clinical Practice seeks to provide… Read More
Three BioMed Central journals accepted by Thomson Reuters for impact factor tracking - March 15, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced three of its journals have been recently accepted by Thomson Reuters for impact factor tracking. The journals are all due to receive their first impact factors in June 2013. The journals are: Health Research Policy and Systems,… Read More
NPG set to publish new open access journal CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology - March 9, 2012
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT) have announced a new, open access journal. CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology (CPT:PSP). The journal will launch in Fall 2012 and will be hosted at Read More
EMBO Molecular Medicine joins Wiley Open Access publishing programme - March 8, 2012
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and EMBO have announced that EMBO Molecular Medicine will, as of March 2012, join the Wiley Open Access publishing programme. Articles in the journal will be open access and free to view,… Read More
US scholarly journal publishers oppose Federal Research Public Access Act - March 6, 2012
Eighty-one US scholarly journal publishing organisations have expressed their strong opposition to the third introduction of the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA, H.R. 4004 and S.2096). The Association of American Publishers' Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (AAP/PSP) and the DC Principles Coalition sent letters -… Read More
US anti-open access bill stymied as Elsevier backs out - March 5, 2012
The proposed Research Works Act in the US has been dropped in a move that is seen to signal a pivotal shift in scientific publishing. The legislation, had it been passed, would have stopped funding agencies stipulating that research funded with taxpayer dollars be made publicly available. The implosion… Read More
OAPEN announces new service for Open Access monographs – Directory of Open Access Books - March 5, 2012
Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) has announced new service for Open Access monographs called the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). DOAB will provide a searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under an Open Access business model, with links to the… Read More
BioMed Central re-launches Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology as OA journal - March 2, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the re-launch of the Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology (JASB) as an open access journal. First established in 2010, the journal has reportedly achieved considerable recognition from scholars in the field. JASB is supported by the… Read More
