BioMed Central journal Transplantation Research is now accepting submissions - September 29, 2011
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that a new journal Transplantation Research is now receiving submissions. The journal provides a forum for the rapid release of cutting-edge experimental and clinical research in transplantation, as well as discussion of ethical issues relating to organ donation.… Read More
ACM joins international publishers to create digital reference library - September 26, 2011
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is joining forces with international publishers to offer free access to the ACM Digital Library to help 15,000 Haitian students, researchers, and teachers continue their scholarly activities in computer science. ACM is part of an international effort to rebuild cultural… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell signs OA funding agreements with three European research organisations - September 23, 2011
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has signed open access funding agreements with three European research organisations - the Max Planck Society in Germany, the FWF Austrian Science Fund, and Telethon, one of the largest biomedical non-profit organisations… Read More
Nature Publishing Group announces open access options for Japanese titles - September 19, 2011
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced an increase in open access options for its Japanese titles from September 2011. NPG Asia Materials is now receiving submissions as part of its re-launch as an online only, open access journal in January 2012. In addition,… Read More
University libraries and German SCOAP3 partners meet to discuss OA in High Energy Physics - September 15, 2011
Representatives of university libraries recently met with representatives of the German SCOAP3 partners - TIB, Max-Planck-Society und Helmholtz Association - for a workshop at TIB in Hannover. The international consortium SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) seeks to convert high quality High… Read More
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
