Wolters Kluwer Pharma Solutions adds OA publishing option to the Adis line of pharmacology and pharmacotherapy journals - April 5, 2011
Wolters Kluwer Pharma Solutions, Inc., a US-based provider of scientific information and analytics to professionals in the pharmaceutical and biotech fields, has added a new open access (OA) publishing option for authors submitting original research articles to the Adis line of pharmacology and pharmacotherapy journals -… Read More
Nature Publishing Group launches sixth open access journal – Translational Psychiatry - April 5, 2011
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that Translational Psychiatry, a new online-only open access journal, has published its first articles. Published by NPG, the journal is live at www.nature.com/tp. Editor-in-Chief Professor Julio Licinio will officially launch the new… Read More
Irish Veterinary Journal publishes first open access articles with BioMed Central - April 1, 2011
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that the Irish Veterinary Journal, the official journal of Veterinary Ireland, has published its first open access articles. Irish Veterinary Journal has been publishing for 65 years and has recently transferred over to BioMed Central to begin a… Read More
WK Health offers free access to medical resources for disaster relief efforts in Japan - March 30, 2011
Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) and Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, are providing free online access to emergency, disaster, trauma and radiation contamination resources to Japanese hospitals and healthcare institutions affected by the recent disasters. The online access is provided via the Wolters… Read More
PLoS Medicine articles examine issues in taking OA to developing world - March 30, 2011
PLoS Medicine recently published two articles that discuss the issues that need to be resolved to ensure that open access (OA) can provide for global information needs, and not just those of the developed world. In one of the articles, Leslie… Read More
InTech launches new OA journal – Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology - March 29, 2011
Open access (OA) publisher InTech has announced the launch of its new OA journal - Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology. Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology will publish peer-reviewed papers at the forefront of nanoscale science and technology, bringing together the science and applications of nanoscale and nanostructured materials with… Read More
Elsevier provides free access to online clinical reference tools for Japan earthquake relief efforts - March 28, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the company is providing free access to its primary online clinical reference tools - MD Consult and First Consult - to all IPs originating from Japan. The move follows the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March… Read More
The Helmholtz Association and New Journal of Physics announce funding agreement - March 28, 2011
The Helmholtz Association and the New Journal of Physics (NJP) have signed a funding agreement to cover article publication charges for all authors affiliated to any of the Helmholtz Research Centres who publish with NJP. The initial term of the agreement will extend until the end… Read More
NISO and UKSG announce 30 more publishers endorse KBART - March 22, 2011
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and UKSG have announced that 30 more publishers will now be able to supply metadata that conforms to the recommended practice, KBART: Knowledge Bases And Related Tools (NISO RP-9-2010). Endorsement of this publication, which contains practical… Read More
IOS Press offers authors an Open Access option via the Open Library initiative - March 21, 2011
Scientific and medical publishing house IOS Press, Netherlands, has announced the launch of Open Library, offering authors and their funders the option to publish their articles with full Open Access in the IOS Press journals. This arrangement is subject only to the requirement of proper attribution… Read More
