British National Formulary offers free resource access to ‘African Mercy’ ship medical staff - August 18, 2011
The British National Formulary (BNF) has announced its support to international charity Mercy Ships by providing free access to its medical information resources. BNF seeks to provide UK healthcare professionals with authoritative and practical information on the selection and clinical use of medicines. Mercy Ships… Read More
Pensoft Publishers launch new open-access journal in invasion biology - August 17, 2011
Scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers has announced the launch of a new open-access, peer-reviewed, online journal in invasion biology - NeoBiota. Plants helping human parasites, roads as weed highways, and chemical warfare between alien and native plants are some of the topics covered in the new journal. Dr Ingolf Kühn from… Read More
KNUST becomes first African Foundation Member to participate in BioMed Central’s Open Access Africa initiative - August 5, 2011
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, recently launched 'Open Access Africa', a collection of initiatives designed to increase the output and visibility of scientific research published by African learning institutes. Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, has been announced as the first… Read More
Springer and Beijing Normal University launch new OA journal – International Journal of Disaster Risk Science - August 3, 2011
STM publisher Springer and the Beijing Normal University have announced the launch of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science (IJDRS). As a fully sponsored open access journal, it will be included in the SpringerOpen portfolio, available on Springer's online platform SpringerLink. The SpringerOpen model… Read More
Cell Press announces January 2012 launch of new OA journal – Cell Reports - August 2, 2011
Cell Press has announced the launch of its latest journal, Cell Reports, which will publish its first issue in January 2012. The journal is the first open-access online-only journal from Cell Press. It will publish high-quality research across the entire life science spectrum. Boyana Konforti will… Read More
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals join Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association - July 28, 2011
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ) has announced that it is now a member of Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). OASPA seeks to represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journal and book publishers globally in all scientific, technical and scholarly disciplines. BQFJ's digital publishing… Read More
Nature Publishing Group expands OA publishing in China - July 26, 2011
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced an expansion in open access publishing in China. Under the initiative, NPG will publish two open access journals - International Journal of Oral Science and Light: Science & Applications - with Chinese universities from 2012. In addition,… Read More
Thieme expands OA journals portfolio with AJP Reports - July 26, 2011
STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced the addition of a new open access journal to its portfolio in 2011. AJP Reports has already published online a number of cases and clinical reports from the fields of neonatology, and maternal/fetal medicine. A companion to the… Read More
Australian National University launches free research database - July 25, 2011
The Australian National University (ANU) has reportedly launched a new free online database that allows anyone with an Internet connection to read the latest scholarly work. The move is said to be in response to the soaring cost of accessing academic journals.… Read More
Wiley-VCH and ChemPubSoc Europe set to launch OA Chemistry journal - July 20, 2011
Wiley-VCH, part of the scientific and technical publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and ChemPubSoc Europe, an association of 16 chemical societies, have announced the launch of an open access journal - ChemistryOpen. The societies are joining a new open access publishing programme announced… Read More
