American Society of Plant Biologists not for Research Works Act - January 31, 2012
The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) has stated that it does not endorse the Research Works Act (RWA; H.R. 3699), which was introduced into the US Congress late last year. If the RWA were to become law, it would essentially repeal the National Institutes of… Read More
Faculty of 1000 launches OA publishing programme, F1000 Research - January 31, 2012
Article evaluation services provider Faculty of 1000 (F1000), UK, has announced the launch of F1000 Research, a new fully open access (OA) publishing programme across biology and medicine. Scheduled for launch later this year, F1000 Research is intended to address the major issues afflicting scientific publishing… Read More
Cell Press unveils new open-access journal – Cell Reports - January 27, 2012
Cell Press, an imprint of STM publisher Elsevier, has announced that the inaugural issue of a new open-access journal - Cell Reports. The issue is currently available online with eight papers on topics ranging from evolutionary biology to immunology. Dr. Boyana Konforti, who brings a… Read More
Cambridge University Press and APSIPA launch new OA journal - January 27, 2012
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press, UK, and the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) have announced the launch of a new open access journal - APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing. The journal is projected to serve as an international forum for signal and… Read More
Oxfam GB adopts BioMed’s Open Repository service - January 26, 2012
Oxfam GB, an organisation known for its anti-poverty programme and campaigning work, has adopted BioMed Central’s Open Repository service. The service allows organisations to build, launch, host and maintain their own repositories. Oxfam produces research and policy materials from its experience across the world. Through… Read More
AAAS not endorsing Research Works Act - January 20, 2012
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science, has reaffirmed its support for the current public access policy of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). Contrary to recent news reports, AAAS does not endorse… Read More
Springer Open Choice adopts Creative Commons Attribution license - January 19, 2012
STM publisher Springer has announced that it is bringing Open Choice, its hybrid open access option, in line with the fully open access journals published by BioMed Central and SpringerOpen. As a result, all open access content at Springer will be published under the Creative Commons… Read More
Copyright Alliances welcomes US bill overturning free access to publicly funded research - January 16, 2012
The Copyright Alliance has applauded US Representatives Darrell Issa and Carolyn Maloney for their bipartisan introduction of H.R. 3699, the Research Works Act. The proposal would overturn an unprecedented federal government taking of copyrights from certain authors and researchers. In a recently issued statement, the… Read More
Springer launches interdisciplinary open access journal, SpringerPlus - January 13, 2012
Scientific publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, has launched a new open access journal, SpringerPlus, under its SpringerOpen portfolio. It is the publisher's first open access journal with a broad interdisciplinary approach covering the entire scientific spectrum. Papers from emerging areas of research are welcome. A… Read More
Journal ‘Environmental Evidence’ now accepting submissions - January 13, 2012
Environmental Evidence, the official journal of the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence, is now accepting submissions. The journal will specialise in publishing systematic reviews, in the hope of providing rigorous and transparent methodology to assess the impacts of human activity and the effectiveness of policy and management… Read More
