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
Springer acquires twelve OA journal titles from Hindawi - March 10, 2011
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media (Springer) has announced that it has acquired twelve journals from Hindawi Publishing Corporation in an asset deal. With this move, the global publisher seeks to further expand its open access (OA) offering. The journals include seven titles published in cooperation… Read More
University of Southampton pioneers open data revolution - March 8, 2011
The University of Southampton has released a range of non-personal data online as part of its pioneering commitment to the open data revolution. The recently launched data.southampton.ac.uk builds on the University's commitment to access by opening up a wide range of data for students to create… Read More
Pacific University College of Health Professions faculty to open access to scholarly work - February 25, 2011
The Pacific University College of Health Professions faculty has passed a resolution in support of making its scholarly work freely available online. The non-binding resolution, patterned after a resolution adopted by the University of Washington Faculty Senate, is said to be one of the first passed… Read More
Three journals in Springer’s Chinese Library of Science join SpringerOpen - February 23, 2011
STM publisher Springer has announced that selected journals in its Chinese Library of Science (CLoS) will be published as open access journals and added to the SpringerOpen portfolio. Starting in 2011, the journals Chinese Science Bulletin, Science China Life Sciences and Photonic Sensors will be added… Read More
Canadian, UK researchers tie up to launch website to share medical research - February 22, 2011
Medical researchers from Ottawa and the UK have reportedly issued a global call to their colleagues to open access to new studies that have undergone 'systematic reviews', which are wide-ranging summaries of all the existing research on a given health topic. The move is expected to… Read More
Browser add-on for Firefox, Chrome aims to ease attribution of open content - February 11, 2011
Open Attribute, a free add-on for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers, was recently launched as part of a Mozilla Drumbeat collaborative project. The project aims to make open content more accessible, according to a Library Journal article. According to Molly… Read More
SAGE announces rewards programme for journal reviewers - February 11, 2011
Academic publisher SAGE has announced a global reviewer rewards programme that provides those who review papers for its Journals with free electronic access to the entire list of SAGE journals. The programme, trialed in 2010 on a small number of titles, has now been rolled… Read More
Wiley launches new programme of Open Access journals - February 2, 2011
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, US, has announced the launch of Wiley Open Access, a new publishing programme of open access journals. The first journals will launch shortly, publishing primary peer-reviewed research in a range of broad-based subject disciplines in the life and biomedical sciences, including… Read More
