Emerald provides free access to 15 enterprise and innovation titles in support of Global Entrepreneurship Week - November 14, 2011
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing, UK, is providing free access to its complete collection of 15 entrepreneurship and innovation titles. The move is in support of the Global Entrepreneurship Week, to be held from November 14-20, 2011, that encourages entrepreneurs to build the businesses of tomorrow.… Read More
Speaker presentations, images and poster abstracts of Open Access Africa 2011 event available online - November 14, 2011
Open Access Africa 2011, a BioMed Central and Computer Aid International event, was hosted at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, during Open Access Week 2011. All presentations are now available online, together with conference images and poster abstracts. These include… Read More
Confederation of Open Access Repositories launches new website - November 10, 2011
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has announced the launch of its new website. The website includes fresh content, added Web2.0 functionality, and an updated look and feel. The site, http://www.coar-repositories.org, reflects a great deal of input from members. In… Read More
University of Arizona opts for BioMed’s Open Repository service - November 10, 2011
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that the University of Arizona has become the first academic institute in the US to adopt its 'Open Repository' service. The service builds, hosts and maintains uniquely customised DSpace repositories on behalf of organisations. Through the implementation… Read More
Thirty three North American institutions endorse Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge - November 10, 2011
Thirty-three research institutions, associations, and foundations in the US, Canada, and Mexico recently signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. These private, public, and non-profit organisations join nearly 300 more from around the world in another clear sign of the growing demand for… Read More
Senior editorial team for new OA research journal announced - November 8, 2011
The senior editorial team has been named for eLife, the new open-access research journal scheduled for launch in 2012 with the support of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust. The team includes internationally-renowned, active researchers from Europe, North… Read More
Global Open Access Portal launched at UNESCO meet - November 7, 2011
The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) was launched at a special side event organised during the 36th session of the UNESCO General Conference at Paris headquarters. The portal is aimed at presenting a snapshot of the status of open access (OA) to scientific information around the… Read More
Routledge announces free access to Area Studies journals - November 7, 2011
Routledge, the social science and humanities imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, has announced its latest free access campaign, Access All Areas. Access All Areas offers free online access to Routledge's complete range of Area Studies journals for six weeks, available from the November 3… Read More
SAGE, Hindawi partnership concludes - November 4, 2011
The partnership between academic publisher SAGE and Hindawi Publishing Corporation in publishing open access journals has now concluded. SAGE will be bringing three of the SAGE-Hindawi journals in house and the further 33 journals will now be solely owned by Hindawi.… Read More
ARL endorses Berlin Declaration on OA to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities - November 2, 2011
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) joined over 300 organisations and institutions to endorse the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. In a letter to Dr. Peter Gruss, President of the Max Planck Society, Winston Tabb, ARL President and… Read More
