Elsevier makes key health titles available through UN developing world research access programme - October 13, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it is contributing an additional 950 electronic books to Research4Life, a public-private partnership working to achieve the UN's Millennium Development Goals by providing the developing world access to critical scientific research. Building on the 800 existing Elsevier science… Read More
Mark Patterson named Managing Executive Editor of new OA research journal - October 11, 2011
Dr Mark N. Patterson, director of publishing at the Public Library of Science (PLoS), has been named managing executive editor of a new open-access research journal that the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust are launching next year. Patterson… Read More
ACRL signs Berlin Declaration on Open Access - October 10, 2011
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has joined the growing ranks of signatories to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and the Humanities. The Declaration builds on the significant progress of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, calling for… Read More
Emerald offers free access to 22 health and social care journals for World Mental Health Day - October 10, 2011
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK, has announced that it is providing free access to its complete collection of health and social care journals in support of World Mental Health Day, held annually on October 10, 2010. In total, 22 journals can be read online… Read More
Students and researchers in Haiti gain access to SpringerLink - September 30, 2011
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media is granting 15,000 students and researchers in Haiti access to its online platform SpringerLink. Springer will provide students and researchers in Haiti with scientific content from about 2,000 research-level scientific journals including French-language editions and the state-of-the-art book series Lecture… Read More
BioMed Central journal Transplantation Research is now accepting submissions - September 29, 2011
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that a new journal Transplantation Research is now receiving submissions. The journal provides a forum for the rapid release of cutting-edge experimental and clinical research in transplantation, as well as discussion of ethical issues relating to organ donation.… Read More
ACM joins international publishers to create digital reference library - September 26, 2011
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is joining forces with international publishers to offer free access to the ACM Digital Library to help 15,000 Haitian students, researchers, and teachers continue their scholarly activities in computer science. ACM is part of an international effort to rebuild cultural… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell signs OA funding agreements with three European research organisations - September 23, 2011
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has signed open access funding agreements with three European research organisations - the Max Planck Society in Germany, the FWF Austrian Science Fund, and Telethon, one of the largest biomedical non-profit organisations… Read More
Nature Publishing Group announces open access options for Japanese titles - September 19, 2011
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced an increase in open access options for its Japanese titles from September 2011. NPG Asia Materials is now receiving submissions as part of its re-launch as an online only, open access journal in January 2012. In addition,… Read More
University libraries and German SCOAP3 partners meet to discuss OA in High Energy Physics - September 15, 2011
Representatives of university libraries recently met with representatives of the German SCOAP3 partners - TIB, Max-Planck-Society und Helmholtz Association - for a workshop at TIB in Hannover. The international consortium SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) seeks to convert high quality High… Read More
