Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association launched - October 16, 2008
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA, was officially launched in conjunction with an OA Day celebration hosted by the Wellcome Trust in London. OASPA seeks to support and represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journals publishers globally in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines.… Read More
BMJ completes 10 years of offering open access content online - October 16, 2008
British Medical Journal (BMJ), published by medical publisher BMJ Group, UK, has announced that after 10 years of providing free access to its peer reviewed research online, it is now officially an open access (OA) journal. The announcement was made on the first international Open Access… Read More
New journal on ovarian research launched - October 8, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced the launch of a new journal - Journal of Ovarian Research. David T. Curiel, Sham S. Kakar, Fumikazu Kotsuji and Stefano Palomba will serve as Editors-in-Chief of the journal. The Journal of Ovarian… Read More
JISC, ProQuest deal to provide journal content to UK’s academic communities - October 2, 2008
ProQuest, part of Cambridge Information Group, and JISC Collections have agreed to make a collection of 80 journals from ProQuest's Periodicals Archive Online available to the UK's academic HE and FE communities. The move is part of JISC Collections' ongoing commitment to… Read More
Asia Pacific Family Medicine moves to BioMed Central - October 2, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that Asia Pacific Family Medicine, the official journal of the Asia Pacific Region of WONCA, has relaunched on BioMed Central's publishing platform. The move is expected to increase the exposure of the journal to the widest possible global… Read More
JISC in pact to give UK researchers wider access to ACS Legacy Archives - October 1, 2008
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and JISC Collections have announced an agreement. Under the deal, the two will make the ACS Legacy Archives, a digital collection of 22 peer-reviewed journal titles, widely available to universities, colleges and research… Read More
‘Health and Human Rights’ adopts open access model - September 29, 2008
The journal Health and Human Rights (HHR) this month has published its first open-access edition. Volume 10, Issue 1 will continue to appear in print, and is still published by the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (FXB Center) at the Harvard School of… Read More
Stem Cells and Development brings out special issue on stem cell research in the Far East - September 23, 2008
Stem Cells and Development, a peer-reviewed journal published by publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., US, has announced the publication of a special issue devoted entirely to publication of a broad range of papers submitted by researchers from the Far East. The August 2008 issue of the… Read More
SNM offers open access to nuclear medicine publication - September 22, 2008
International scientific and medical organisation Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM), US, has announced that all content in its flagship publication - The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM) - is now free and open to the public six months after publication. Previously, non-subscribers were able to access… Read More
Sigma becomes first life science firm to publish peer-reviewed video protocol in JoVE - September 19, 2008
Life sciences research products provider Sigma-Aldrich, US, has announced the publication of its first peer-reviewed video protocol in the PubMed accessible Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE). This is claimed to make Sigma-Aldrich the first life science company to submit a video protocol to the traditional scientific… Read More
