SAGE expands OA publishing portfolio - June 18, 2012
Academic and professional publisher SAGE has announced the launch of a further three broad-spectrum open access journals - SAGE Open Medicine, SAGE Open Medical Case Reports and SAGE Open Engineering. The journals will be open for submissions later in the summer of 2012. The new… Read More
UK govt. looking to open up access to publicly funded research - June 18, 2012
Scientific papers will soon be available freely online to the public in a UK government-backed project to open up knowledge at the expense of Britain's academic publishers, according to a report published in The Independent. The Coalition plans to stop publicly funded research going behind the… Read More
eLife selects HighWire platform for new OA journal - June 13, 2012
HighWire Press, a not-for-profit division of Stanford University Libraries, has announced that it has been selected by eLife, the new funder-researcher collaboration in science communication, as the platform for the latter’s new open access journal for life and biomedical science. First announced in summer 2011,… Read More
Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine journal publishes first OA articles with BioMed Central - June 12, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced that the journal Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine has published its first open access articles with the publisher. The journal, originally published by Novamedia srl, launched in 2006 as the official scientific journal of the Interdisciplinary Association for Research in Lung… Read More
New open access publisher PeerJ launches publication - June 12, 2012
PeerJ Inc., a new US-based open access academic publishing company, has formally announced its launch. Founded by academic publishing and technology professionals from PLoS ONE and Mendeley, PeerJ will publish a broad based, rapid, peer-reviewed journal, PeerJ, and a preprint server, PeerJ PrePrints. PeerJ will open… Read More
Utah State University adopts open access policy - June 11, 2012
Utah State University (USU) has joined an emerging national trend and the ranks of a growing number of the US’ universities in adopting an official open access (OA) policy. USU’s University Libraries headed the effort. The new OA policy - officially known at USU as… Read More
‘We the People’ petition movement hits 25,000 signatures in two weeks - June 5, 2012
The movement to make taxpayer-funded research freely available online hit a new milestone on June 3 when advocates hit their goal of 25,000 signatures to a ‘We the People’ petition to the Obama administration. The petition, created by Access2Research (a group of open access advocates, including Read More
RSC finds increasing number of university subscribers for Gold offering - June 1, 2012
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has stated that its new premium collection of international journals, databases and magazines offering access to all published material is proving to be a winner with more and more universities around the UK. The RSC already has 21 universities, including… Read More
UCSF clears policy to make research papers freely accessible to public - May 25, 2012
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Academic Senate has voted to make electronic versions of current and future scientific articles freely available to the public. The move is projected to reverse decades of practice on the part of medical and scientific journal publishers to restrict… Read More
Online petition in US urging open access to federally funded research gains ground - May 24, 2012
A community-driven petition in the US calling for the Obama administration to open up the results of taxpayer-funded scientific research by making journal articles freely available online is seen to have opened remarkably strong. The petition, which calls for public access to all federally funded research, was posted to the… Read More
