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
OAPEN-UK project to explore challenges of open access scholarly monograph - October 28, 2011
JISC Collections is embarking on a new project called OAPEN-UK to explore the issues impacting the publishing of scholarly monographs in the humanities and social sciences. Funded by JISC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the project seeks to take a collaborative and real… Read More
BioMed Central to publish Clinical Epigenetics journal - October 27, 2011
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced Clinical Epigenetics, the official journal of the Clinical Epigenetics Society, as the latest addition to its open access portfolio. The journal has published its first open access articles. Led by Professor Ulrich Mahlknecht, the journal publishes articles… Read More
Royal Society announces free access to its journal archive - October 27, 2011
The Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, has announced that its historical journal archive has been made permanently free to access online. Around 60,000 historical scientific papers are accessible via a fully searchable online archive, with papers published more than 70 years ago now… Read More
Nominations now open for the 6th Annual BioMed Central Research Awards - October 26, 2011
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that nominations are now open for the 6th Annual BioMed Central Research Awards. The awards bring together the scientific community to celebrate the finest open access research from the last 12 months. Reflecting the increasing importance of open… Read More
JISC welcomes OAIG reports and newly released repositories resource pack - October 25, 2011
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has welcomed the UK Open Access Implementation Group’s (OAIG) reports and the recently released new repositories resource pack. The “Benefits to the Private Sector of Open Access to Higher Education and Scholarly Research report” (PDF) and the “Open… Read More
