Canadian Science Publishing expands access for Australian and New Zealand researchers with new publishing partnership - February 7, 2025
Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) has announced a new partnership with seven Australian universities and three New Zealand universities to provide unlimited Read Access and Open Access publishing opportunities across all CSP journals. The agreement, which runs from January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2027, allows corresponding authors… Read More
EMS Press achieves full open access for 2025 following successful Subscribe To Open campaign - February 7, 2025
EMS Press has announced that all 22 of its journals will be fully open access in 2025, marking the second consecutive year the publisher has achieved this milestone. This success follows another successful round of its Subscribe To Open (S2O) initiative, further cementing the publisher’s commitment to… Read More
Wiley partners with CAPES to expand open access access for Brazilian researchers - February 6, 2025
Wiley, a global leader in research and learning, has announced a transformative three-year partnership with the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES). The agreement, which provides researchers from 434 institutions within the CAPES consortium access to Wiley’s full portfolio of nearly 2,000… Read More
Manchester Metropolitan University partners with Frontiers for OA publishing agreement - February 6, 2025
Frontiers has announced a new three-year flat fee agreement with Manchester Metropolitan University (Man Met), effective from 2025. This partnership will allow researchers at Man Met to publish unlimited articles in all Frontiers journals without incurring individual article processing charges (APCs), marking a significant step forward in… Read More
cOAlition S to sunset the Journal Comparison Service in April 2025 - February 5, 2025
cOAlition S, the global initiative aiming to accelerate the transition to Open Access publishing, has announced that it will discontinue the Journal Comparison Service (JCS), effective from April 30, 2025. The JCS was launched in September 2022 as part of cOAlition S’s commitment to… Read More
RSC expands support for French chemistry community with new Couperin agreement - January 29, 2025
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has strengthened its commitment to Open Access publishing with a new three-year agreement with Couperin, a consortium representing French Higher Education and Research institutions. Building on a successful partnership from 2022 to 2024, the renewed agreement will provide… Read More
EIFL and Oxford University Press renew agreement to expand access and support open access publishing - January 29, 2025
The Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) and Oxford University Press (OUP) have announced the renewal of their partnership agreement, extending their collaboration for another year until December 31, 2025. This renewed agreement continues to provide EIFL’s partner libraries with free and discounted access to… Read More
Japan advances open access initiatives with JST/CHORUS collaboration - January 27, 2025
The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and CHORUS have joined forces to support Japan's move toward a national open access policy, which is set to take effect in April 2025. At the recent Japan Library Fair on November 20, 2024, the organizations hosted… Read More
Lancaster University Library launches new open-access journal hosting service - January 27, 2025
Lancaster University Library has announced the launch of its new service, Lancaster University Open Journals, which will provide a free platform for hosting open access journals managed by the university’s academic community. This initiative aims to simplify the process for colleagues interested in developing… Read More
Croatian Academic and Research Libraries Consortium partners with Wiley in landmark open access agreement - January 24, 2025
Wiley, a global leader in research and learning, has announced its first-ever open access agreement in Croatia, marking a significant milestone in the publisher’s mission to expand access to research worldwide. The one-year agreement, signed with the Croatian Academic and Research Libraries Consortium, will begin on January… Read More
