Royal Society announces free access to its journal archive - October 27, 2011
The Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, has announced that its historical journal archive has been made permanently free to access online. Around 60,000 historical scientific papers are accessible via a fully searchable online archive, with papers published more than 70 years ago now… Read More
Nominations now open for the 6th Annual BioMed Central Research Awards - October 26, 2011
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that nominations are now open for the 6th Annual BioMed Central Research Awards. The awards bring together the scientific community to celebrate the finest open access research from the last 12 months. Reflecting the increasing importance of open… Read More
JISC welcomes OAIG reports and newly released repositories resource pack - October 25, 2011
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has welcomed the UK Open Access Implementation Group’s (OAIG) reports and the recently released new repositories resource pack. The “Benefits to the Private Sector of Open Access to Higher Education and Scholarly Research report” (PDF) and the “Open… Read More
Maney Publishing marks OA Week with open content - October 25, 2011
Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, will be offering open access to all Archaeology & Heritage content from October 24 until November 4 to coincide with Open Access Week. During this period the publisher will be offering free, immediate access to the results of scholarly research to… Read More
The Royal Society launches OA journal covering research in cellular and molecular aspects of biology - October 18, 2011
The Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, has announced the official launch of Open Biology, a new open access journal covering research in cellular and molecular aspects of biology. The journal is the Society's first wholly open access and online-only journal. The new… Read More
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
