More Wiley-Blackwell journals and non-journal resources to be available through Research4Life in 2011 - January 7, 2011
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that an additional 88 journals and 24 non-journal resources will be available through the three United Nations sponsored Research4Life programmes - HINARI, AGORA, and OARE. These programmes provide developing countries… Read More
Nature Publishing Group launches new open access publication – Scientific Reports - January 7, 2011
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced the launch of Scientific Reports, an online, open access, peer-reviewed publication. The journal is currently accepting submissions, and will publish its first articles in June 2011. Scientific Reports will publish research covering the natural sciences -… Read More
US’ National Archives introduces Online Public Access prototype - December 28, 2010
The US' National Archives and Records Administration has announced that a new Online Public Access prototype is being made available to the public at http://www.archives.gov/research/search. The National Archives' flagship initiative in its Open Government plan is to develop online services to… Read More
Study of Open Access Publishing project to present findings of two-year EC funded study on OA publishing - December 20, 2010
The SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing) project is set to present the results of its two-year European Commission funded examination of open access publishing at an open symposium on January 13, 2011, in Berlin, Germany. Over the two-year study duration, the SOAP project performed… Read More
RSC Publishing to move Highlights supplements to Chemistry World - December 17, 2010
Scientific publisher RSC Publishing, the publishing arm of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, has announced that three of its Highlights supplements will be moving to Chemistry World from January 2011. These include Highlights in Chemical Science ; Read More
JISC’s executive secretary calls for more strategic debate on OA - December 15, 2010
JISC's executive secretary, Dr Malcolm Read, has called for more strategic debate on Open Access (OA) among funders, researchers and institutional managers. Speaking at the expert conference on Open Access and Open Data in Cologne, Germany, Dr. Read said that more needs to be done to… Read More
Nature Publishing Group announces open access options for 15 more journals - December 15, 2010
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced open access options for fifteen more journals. Forty-one journals published by NPG now offer authors an open access option or are wholly open access, including 80 percent of its 50 academic and society journals. In total, NPG… Read More
NISO to make Information Standards Quarterly OA in 2011 - December 13, 2010
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced that its Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) publication will be moving to open access (OA) in 2011. The full issue as well as each of the individual articles will be available in PDF for free download to the public.… Read More
Submission fees – a viable business model for OA publishing, says Knowledge Exchange report - December 6, 2010
A new study commissioned by the Knowledge Exchange argues that there can be benefits to publishers if they switch to a model based on submission fees. Knowledge Exchange is a pan-European partnership between DFG (Germany), JISC (UK), DEFF (Denmark) and SURFfoundation (The Netherlands) who share a… Read More
EC launches ‘OpenAIRE’ to offer open access to EU-funded scientific research papers - December 3, 2010
The European Commission (EC) has launched OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) at the University of Ghent in Belgium. Through this, it is expected that EU researchers, businesses and citizens will have free and open access to EU-funded research papers. OpenAIRE is projected… Read More
