Springer unveils fully open access option for books - August 29, 2012
STM publisher Springer, Germany, plans to expand its open access (OA) programme by offering a fully OA option for books. This is expected to extend the company's SpringerOpen and BioMed Central journal portfolio, and its Springer Open Choice option. Any electronic version of a SpringerOpen book… Read More
SPIE launches new open access programme for journals - August 23, 2012
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced a new programme that provides Gold Open Access upon publication for a journal article for which authors or their institutions pay voluntary page charges, beginning in January 2013. Authors will retain copyright under the Creative Commons… Read More
WK Health launches OvidOpenAccess to support the research needs of the global medical community - August 17, 2012
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced the release of OvidOpenAccess, a new search discovery feature that integrates thousands of Open Access (OA) resources within the OvidSP platform. OvidSP users can now conduct a single search query to uncover relevant answers to… Read More
Wiley journals adopt CC-BY licence allowing commercial use of published articles - August 15, 2012
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced revised licensing arrangements for proprietary journals published under the Wiley Open Access programme. The journals will adopt the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence which allows commercial use of published articles. The Wiley Open Access portfolio… Read More
SAGE and UC Berkeley partner to encourage social science and humanities faculty and students to publish in SAGE Open - August 7, 2012
Academic publisher SAGE and the University of California, Berkeley, through its Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII), have announced a partnership designed to encourage social science and humanities faculty and students at the university to make their work available to all by publishing in SAGE Open. Launched… Read More
Moroccan oncology institute joins BioMed Central’s Foundation Member initiative - August 2, 2012
Open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its initiative Foundation Member has signed up its tenth member, the National Institute of Oncology in Rabat, Morocco. The institute is one of two public oncology centres in Morocco providing free care and treatment for cancer… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert offers complimentary online access to Breastfeeding Medicine journal - August 2, 2012
Publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., US, has announced complimentary online access to 2011 and 2012 published issues of the journal Breastfeeding Medicine for the entire month of August, in recognition of the World Breastfeeding week. Breastfeeding Medicine is the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding… Read More
BioMed Central’s Pharmaphorum examines innovation through open access publishing - August 1, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that an article for Pharmaphorum, a news and community site for pharma research, looks at the opportunities for clinical trial development and dissemination offered by open access publishing. The article discusses the steps taken by BioMed's trial… Read More
Elsevier launches new OA journal – Applied and Translational Genomics - July 31, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new open access journal, Applied and Translational Genomics. The journal is dedicated to publishing articles on applied genomics and translational research. The completion of the human genome project gave way to research that takes the… Read More
NPG’s new journal ‘Emerging Microbes and Infections’ goes live - July 26, 2012
The journal Emerging Microbes & Infections (EMI), launched earlier this month, has gone live at www.nature.com/emi, publishing original research to a broad global audience. The journal is open access and, according to the publisher, original research papers are accompanied by professionally written research summaries, making the… Read More
