Nature Publishing Group announces open access options for 15 more journals - December 15, 2010
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced open access options for fifteen more journals. Forty-one journals published by NPG now offer authors an open access option or are wholly open access, including 80 percent of its 50 academic and society journals. In total, NPG… Read More
NISO to make Information Standards Quarterly OA in 2011 - December 13, 2010
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced that its Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) publication will be moving to open access (OA) in 2011. The full issue as well as each of the individual articles will be available in PDF for free download to the public.… Read More
Submission fees – a viable business model for OA publishing, says Knowledge Exchange report - December 6, 2010
A new study commissioned by the Knowledge Exchange argues that there can be benefits to publishers if they switch to a model based on submission fees. Knowledge Exchange is a pan-European partnership between DFG (Germany), JISC (UK), DEFF (Denmark) and SURFfoundation (The Netherlands) who share a… Read More
EC launches ‘OpenAIRE’ to offer open access to EU-funded scientific research papers - December 3, 2010
The European Commission (EC) has launched OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) at the University of Ghent in Belgium. Through this, it is expected that EU researchers, businesses and citizens will have free and open access to EU-funded research papers. OpenAIRE is projected… Read More
Gale releases Gale NewsVault, offers access to 400 years of newspapers and periodicals - December 2, 2010
Educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, has announced the release of Gale NewsVault, a specially designed online platform that enables cross-searching of Gale's enormous range of historical newspaper and periodical collections from a single interface. Providing access to more than 2,000 titles and 10… Read More
UK’s Open University opts for Linked Open Data Movement - November 19, 2010
The UK's Open University (OU) is reportedly the first university in the nation to open up access to online data from across the institution as part of the Linked Open Data Movement. The JISC-funded OU's LUCERO (Linking University Content for Education and… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert provides free online access to diabetes-related journals - November 15, 2010
Medical publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., US, will provide complimentary online access to the fully searchable legacy content of the company's diabetes-related journals through the end of November in honour of World Diabetes Day on November 14, 2010. Free online access is currently available for
Emerald releases first open access articles through special partnership with IFLA - November 4, 2010
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has released the first articles in open access as part of its 'special partnership' with the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Available from November 1, 2010, the fourteen articles are published in… Read More
SPIE participates in Open Access Week with expanded suite of options - October 21, 2010
SPIE, an international society for optics and photonics, is participating in the Open Access Week 2010 (18-24 October) with an expanded suite of open access (OA) options to its scholarly publications on light-based science and technology. SPIE is reportedly continuing to develop new models enabling online… Read More
JISC, Taylor & Francis unveil OA version of New Review of ‘Academic Librarianship’ - October 20, 2010
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has teamed up with publisher Taylor & Francis to produce the first open access (OA) issue of the New Review of Academic Librarianship, edited by Graham Walton from Loughborough University. The special issue on 'dissemination… Read More
