Open Humanities Press and University of Michigan Library’s Scholarly Publishing Office partner to launch five new OA book series - August 11, 2009
Scholars of the Open Humanities Press (OHP) are partnering with the University of Michigan Library’s Scholarly Publishing Office to launch five new OA book series. Edited by senior members of OHP’s editorial board, the forthcoming open access series are: New Metaphysics (ed. Graham Harman and Bruno… Read More
SPARC unveils centralised web resource and group of experts to advise on OA policy - August 7, 2009
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has announced that it has introduced a new suite of web-based tools to facilitate fact-based campus policy discussions on open access (OA). This includes key topics such as copyright, journal sustainability, disciplinary differences and author rights. With these… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert provides online access to Breastfeeding Medicine - August 3, 2009
Medical publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., US, has announced complimentary online access to its journal Breastfeeding Medicine for the entire month of August. All published issues will be available free online at www.liebertpub.com/bfm A MEDLINE journal, Breastfeeding Medicine is the official publication… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert offers free online access to Obesity Management journal - July 31, 2009
Medical publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., US, has announced free online access to the contents of the journal Obesity Management through the month of August. All published issues will be available free online at www.liebertpub.com/obe Obesity Management is in collaboration with the… Read More
PRISMA statement endorsed by BioMed Central journals - July 29, 2009
A new reporting guideline for systematic reviews and meta-analyses - the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses) statement - has been published and is endorsed in open access publisher BioMed Central's instructions to authors. The guidelines address systematic reviews and meta-analyses, which are considered the 'gold standard'… Read More
New UN-brokered programme allows free academic journal access to least developed nations - July 27, 2009
The United Nations has partnered with the scientific publishing industry to provide research institutions in least developed countries free access to online journals. This was announced by the UN World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) at the launch of the scheme in Geneva. The new UN-brokered programme,… Read More
Journal ‘Science’ makes ‘moon issue’ freely available for lunar landing anniversary - July 22, 2009
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced that the historic January 30, 1970 edition of the journal Science, featuring analysis of the first geological samples from the moon, is now freely available to the public. This is to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the first lunar… Read More
More BioMed Central journals indexed in MEDLINE - July 20, 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that three of its journals have been accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE. The journals are: BMC Medical Genomics; BMC Oral Health; and Microbial Cell Factories. Maintained by the US National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and… Read More
Springer offers open access to research articles on swine flu - July 17, 2009
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, is offering all journal articles which deal with the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, free of charge on its online information platform www.springerlink.com. The articles can be found by using the search term 'H1N1.' A total… Read More
Presentations from BioMed workshop for publishing consultants available online - July 17, 2009
Open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that presentations from its workshop for publishing consultants are now available online. It has been observed that many learned societies are considering various publishing strategies for their journals in the face of the squeeze on library subscriptions.… Read More
