OAD launches the ‘Bibliography of Open Access’ in MediaWiki format - July 23, 2008
The Open Access Directory (OAD) has announced the release of the Bibliography of Open Access, which is the work of OAD contributors. The bibliography is based on Charles Bailey's Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals, which was published in 2005… Read More
APA reconsiders charge to meet NIH norms following criticism from OA community - July 22, 2008
The American Psychological Association (APA) is reportedly reconsidering its plans to charge authors to fulfil the open access (OA) mandate of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). APA had initially proposed to charge authors $2,500 per manuscript to deposit the final peer-reviewed manuscript in PubMed Central… Read More
BioMed Central launches new journal – BioData Mining - July 22, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced the launch of a new open access journal - BioData Mining. Dr Jesus Aguilar-Ruiz of the Pablo De Olavide University and Dr Jason H. Moore of the Dartmouth Medical School will serve as Editors-in-Chief of the journal. They… Read More
Australian universities join SCOAP3 to promote open access in particle physics research - July 9, 2008
Australia has joined SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics), an international consortium that aims to provide free access to major particle physics journals worldwide. Six of the Group of Eight universities in Australia have agreed to participate in the consortium. These include… Read More
Materials science journal STAM converts to no-fee open access model - July 8, 2008
The journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM) has reportedly converted to a no-fee open access (OA) model with its January-March issue. The journal is being published by Japan's National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in partnership with IOP Publishing. STAM, sponsored by NIMS, is… Read More
Open access can help India take scientific research forward, says OA proponent - July 7, 2008
Open access (OA) can help India make its scientific research widely accessible for greater impact at low costs, thus taking its research forward, according to Prof. Steven Harnad of the University of Quebec, Montreal and Southampton. Current gaps were making things tougher for researchers in India, he observed in his… Read More
Inderscience announces inaugural issues of five new journals - July 1, 2008
STM and business publisher, Inderscience, Switzerland, has published the first issues of 5 new titles. The new journals are: International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design, International Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation, International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition and Public Health, International Journal… Read More
Individual scientists in developing countries gain access to SPIE Digital Library - June 30, 2008
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) has arranged for the SPIE Digital Library to become available free of charge to researchers and students in more than 90 countries served by ICTP's electronic Journals Delivery Service (eJDS). Through eJDS, ICTP… Read More
BioMed Central launches new journal – Molecular Brain - June 25, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced the launch of Molecular Brain, a new open access, independent journal. The journal will cover all aspects of studies on the nervous system at the molecular, cellular, and system level. Molecular Brain seeks to provide a forum for… Read More
BioMed Central announces January 2009 launch of new medical journal, Genome Medicine - June 20, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that its new medical journal Genome Medicine, is now accepting submissions. An online peer-reviewed journal, Genome Medicine will publish its first articles in January 2009 and will be indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar and other indexing services.… Read More
