Emerald Group Publishing offers free access to British Food Journal - September 15, 2011
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK, has announced that it is providing free online access to the British Food Journal to celebrate British Food Fortnight, from September 17 - October 3, 2011. To read the British Food Journal, interested parties may visit Read More
Autonomous University of Mexico launches Latindex Portal of Portals - September 12, 2011
The Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) recently launched a portal that boasts nearly a million scientific articles journals from Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. The full texts of these articles will reportedly be available online for free. The… Read More
JSTOR opens access to Early Journal Content - September 8, 2011
JSTOR, the preservation archive and research platform arm of the not-for-profit ITHAKA, is offering free access to journal content in JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the US and prior to 1870 elsewhere. This 'Early Journal Content' includes discourse and scholarship in the arts and humanities,… Read More
HighWire Press unveils 5-star article rating feature on new journal SAGE Open - September 7, 2011
HighWire Press, a not-for-profit division of Stanford University Libraries, has unveiled a 5-star article rating feature on the newly launched peer-reviewed research journal, SAGE Open (www.sageopen.com). The feature seeks to give readers the opportunity to weigh in on the quality and impact… Read More
New BioMed Central journal calls for submissions - August 31, 2011
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its new open access journal Extreme Physiology & Medicine is now accepting submissions. Extreme Physiology & Medicine focuses on integrative human physiology under conditions of physiological stress, including that exerted by extreme environments, exercise, and certain… Read More
British National Formulary offers free resource access to ‘African Mercy’ ship medical staff - August 18, 2011
The British National Formulary (BNF) has announced its support to international charity Mercy Ships by providing free access to its medical information resources. BNF seeks to provide UK healthcare professionals with authoritative and practical information on the selection and clinical use of medicines. Mercy Ships… Read More
Pensoft Publishers launch new open-access journal in invasion biology - August 17, 2011
Scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers has announced the launch of a new open-access, peer-reviewed, online journal in invasion biology - NeoBiota. Plants helping human parasites, roads as weed highways, and chemical warfare between alien and native plants are some of the topics covered in the new journal. Dr Ingolf Kühn from… Read More
KNUST becomes first African Foundation Member to participate in BioMed Central’s Open Access Africa initiative - August 5, 2011
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, recently launched 'Open Access Africa', a collection of initiatives designed to increase the output and visibility of scientific research published by African learning institutes. Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, has been announced as the first… Read More
Springer and Beijing Normal University launch new OA journal – International Journal of Disaster Risk Science - August 3, 2011
STM publisher Springer and the Beijing Normal University have announced the launch of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science (IJDRS). As a fully sponsored open access journal, it will be included in the SpringerOpen portfolio, available on Springer's online platform SpringerLink. The SpringerOpen model… Read More
Cell Press announces January 2012 launch of new OA journal – Cell Reports - August 2, 2011
Cell Press has announced the launch of its latest journal, Cell Reports, which will publish its first issue in January 2012. The journal is the first open-access online-only journal from Cell Press. It will publish high-quality research across the entire life science spectrum. Boyana Konforti will… Read More
