Maney Publishing extends open access model to humanities journals - January 14, 2011
Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has extended its open access (OA) business model, MORE OpenChoice, to its humanities journals. Nearly sixty journals, including titles in archaeology, history, and language and cultural studies, will be included in MORE OpenChoice from January 2011 onwards. MORE OpenChoice is… Read More
Veterinary Research joins BioMed Central’s portfolio of veterinary journals - January 13, 2011
Journal Veterinary Research recently published its first open access (OA) articles with OA publisher BioMed Central. The journal is now the flagship title in BioMed Central's expanding cluster of veterinary journals. Headed by Editor-in-Chief Michel Brémont, Veterinary Research publishes novel research and review articles with… Read More
Springer announces publishing partnership with French intensive care society - January 12, 2011
STM publisher Springer is set to publish two journals for the Société de Réanimation de Langue Française (SRLF), a French intensive care society. Starting in 2011, Springer will publish Réanimation, formerly published by Elsevier, and a new open access journal in English… Read More
Elsevier offers e-books to UN programme providing research access to developing nations - January 11, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that 780 of its science and technology e-books will be added to Research4Life. Research4Life is the collective name given to HINARI, AGORA and OARE, the three public-private partnerships that offer health, agriculture and environmental research for… Read More
More Wiley-Blackwell journals and non-journal resources to be available through Research4Life in 2011 - January 7, 2011
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that an additional 88 journals and 24 non-journal resources will be available through the three United Nations sponsored Research4Life programmes - HINARI, AGORA, and OARE. These programmes provide developing countries… Read More
Nature Publishing Group launches new open access publication – Scientific Reports - January 7, 2011
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced the launch of Scientific Reports, an online, open access, peer-reviewed publication. The journal is currently accepting submissions, and will publish its first articles in June 2011. Scientific Reports will publish research covering the natural sciences -… Read More
US’ National Archives introduces Online Public Access prototype - December 28, 2010
The US' National Archives and Records Administration has announced that a new Online Public Access prototype is being made available to the public at http://www.archives.gov/research/search. The National Archives' flagship initiative in its Open Government plan is to develop online services to… Read More
Study of Open Access Publishing project to present findings of two-year EC funded study on OA publishing - December 20, 2010
The SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing) project is set to present the results of its two-year European Commission funded examination of open access publishing at an open symposium on January 13, 2011, in Berlin, Germany. Over the two-year study duration, the SOAP project performed… Read More
RSC Publishing to move Highlights supplements to Chemistry World - December 17, 2010
Scientific publisher RSC Publishing, the publishing arm of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, has announced that three of its Highlights supplements will be moving to Chemistry World from January 2011. These include Highlights in Chemical Science ; Read More
JISC’s executive secretary calls for more strategic debate on OA - December 15, 2010
JISC's executive secretary, Dr Malcolm Read, has called for more strategic debate on Open Access (OA) among funders, researchers and institutional managers. Speaking at the expert conference on Open Access and Open Data in Cologne, Germany, Dr. Read said that more needs to be done to… Read More
