ACM partners with CLOCKSS, Portico to offer electronic archiving services - November 9, 2009
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that it is providing its institutional library customers with advanced electronic archiving services to preserve their electronic resources. These services, provided by Portico and CLOCKSS, are aimed to help the scholarly community obtain reliable, secure, deliverable access to… Read More
Brill launches journal OA service, Brill Open - November 6, 2009
Academic publisher Brill, Netherlands, has announced the launch of Brill Open, a new author service that offers the option of making articles freely available upon publication. Brill Open enables authors to comply with research funding bodies and institutions which require open access. The Brill Open option… Read More
Singapore research organisation partners with MSC to launch online publication - November 4, 2009
Macmillan Scientific Communications (MSC) and Singapore-based Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have announced the launch of a new open access website, A*STAR Research (http://www.research.a-star.edu.sg/). The free online publication aims to highlight key research material published by A*STAR’s research institutions. Established… Read More
BioMed Central publishes journal for Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology - November 4, 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central has commenced publishing Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology (AACI), the official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (CSACI). This follows the journal’s decision to adopt an open access format to increase its reach. AACI aims to further… Read More
BioMed Central launches new OA journal – Automated Experimentation - November 2, 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the launch of a new journal - Automated Experimentation. Siu-wai Leung of the University of Macau, David Robertson of the University of Edinburgh, and Dietlind Gerloff of the University of California will serve as the Editors-in-chief of the… Read More
JISC becomes founding member of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories - October 26, 2009
The UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has become a founding member of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR). COAR is an international not-for-profit association that aims to promote greater visibility and application of research outputs through global networks of Open Access (OA) digital repositories.… Read More
BMC Medical Genomics accepted for tracking by Thomson Reuters - October 13, 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its journal BMC Medical Genomics has now been accepted for tracking by Thomson Reuters. The journal will get its first impact factor in June 2010. Since its launch in January 2008, BMC Medical Genomics has published more… Read More
CIG Media Group offers free access to the archives of Clinical Lung Cancer - October 13, 2009
Medical publisher CIG Media Group, US, has announced that it will now permanently open up its archives of the journal Clinical Lung Cancer. The move is in response to the successful free-access trial campaign that occurred during this summer’s International Association for the Study of Lung… Read More
SPARC brings out new guide examining income models supporting OA journals - October 12, 2009
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has released a new guide which examines the issue of sustainability for current and prospective open-access publishers. The new guide, ‘Income models for Open Access: An overview of current practice,’ examines the use of supply-side revenue streams (such… Read More
Chief academic officers at 18 US varsities support public access legislation - October 5, 2009
The Chief Academic and Research Officers of 18 research universities in the US have declared their support for the Federal Research Public Access Act in a letter recently issued by the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA). The officers represent public and private institutions across 10 states.… Read More
