University of Arizona opts for BioMed’s Open Repository service - November 10, 2011
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that the University of Arizona has become the first academic institute in the US to adopt its 'Open Repository' service. The service builds, hosts and maintains uniquely customised DSpace repositories on behalf of organisations. Through the implementation… Read More
Thirty three North American institutions endorse Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge - November 10, 2011
Thirty-three research institutions, associations, and foundations in the US, Canada, and Mexico recently signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. These private, public, and non-profit organisations join nearly 300 more from around the world in another clear sign of the growing demand for… Read More
Senior editorial team for new OA research journal announced - November 8, 2011
The senior editorial team has been named for eLife, the new open-access research journal scheduled for launch in 2012 with the support of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust. The team includes internationally-renowned, active researchers from Europe, North… Read More
Global Open Access Portal launched at UNESCO meet - November 7, 2011
The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) was launched at a special side event organised during the 36th session of the UNESCO General Conference at Paris headquarters. The portal is aimed at presenting a snapshot of the status of open access (OA) to scientific information around the… Read More
Routledge announces free access to Area Studies journals - November 7, 2011
Routledge, the social science and humanities imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, has announced its latest free access campaign, Access All Areas. Access All Areas offers free online access to Routledge's complete range of Area Studies journals for six weeks, available from the November 3… Read More
SAGE, Hindawi partnership concludes - November 4, 2011
The partnership between academic publisher SAGE and Hindawi Publishing Corporation in publishing open access journals has now concluded. SAGE will be bringing three of the SAGE-Hindawi journals in house and the further 33 journals will now be solely owned by Hindawi.… Read More
ARL endorses Berlin Declaration on OA to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities - November 2, 2011
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) joined over 300 organisations and institutions to endorse the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. In a letter to Dr. Peter Gruss, President of the Max Planck Society, Winston Tabb, ARL President and… Read More
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals and Max Planck Society sign OA agreement - November 1, 2011
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ) and the German Max Planck Society (MPS) recently signed an agreement whereby open access publication fees for BQFJ journals articles will be paid directly out of a fund supporting researchers from the Max Planck Institutes. The agreement bolsters the publishing company's growth and the visibility… Read More
Taylor & Francis to unveil new journals and enhance OA programme - October 31, 2011
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group, a division of Informa UK Ltd., is marking Open Access Week by announcing a range of new open access (OA) journals and an enhancement of its current OA programme for 2012. These initiatives will encompass publications from across the range… Read More
Health Information Science and Systems journal now accepting submissions - October 31, 2011
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its new multidisciplinary journal, Health Information Science and Systems, is now accepting submissions. The journal aims to integrate computer science/information technology with health science and services, embracing information science research coupled with topics related to the modeling,… Read More
