SCOAP3 support in the US continues to grow - April 28, 2009
Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) has announced that five universities and a consortium have signed an expression of interest to re-direct their current subscriptions to high energy physics (HEP) journals to SCOAP3. SCOAP3 is an international consortium that aims to provide… Read More
Lectures from the Proceedings of the 7th International LISA Symposium free to access in IOP journals - April 27, 2009
Classical and Quantum Gravity, published by IOP publishing, UK, has announced the online publication of a special issue devoted to the Proceedings of the 7th International LISA Symposium. The proceedings are published in two journals. A special selection, chosen by the conference organisers, appears in Classical… Read More
Cochrane Center offers free access to information in The Cochrane Library - April 20, 2009
The Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre has announced that everyone in Canada with access to the Internet will now be able to view the full content of The Cochrane Library, an on-line resource that provides evaluations on health treatments. The Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre, in… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert provides free online access to Sustainability: The Journal of Record - April 20, 2009
Medical publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., US, has announced that it will provide complimentary online access to the bimonthly journal, Sustainability: The Journal of Record, for the remainder of the month of April. The journal is being made available in recognition of Earth Day 2009. The… Read More
Genome Medicine publishes first research article - April 17, 2009
Genome Medicine, published by open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the publication of its first research article. The article, covering work on systems medicine and informatics, reflects the journal's aim to publish high-quality research across a wide range of topics relevant for medical researchers… Read More
Over 9,000 reports from National Academies now available via Google Book Search - April 14, 2009
The National Academies has announced the completion of the first phase of a partnership with internet search services provider Google, US. The deal is to digitise the library's collection of reports from 1863 to 1997, making them available - free, searchable, and in full text -… Read More
Inderscience Publishers announces inaugural issues of four new titles - April 10, 2009
STM and business publisher Inderscience, Switzerland, has announced the inaugural issues of four new titles. The new titles are: International Journal of Autonomic Computing; International Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology; International Journal of Information and Coding Theory; and International Journal of Materials… Read More
Helicos unveils transcriptome sequencing datasets on open access website - April 10, 2009
Life sciences company Helicos BioSciences, US, has announced the release of transcriptome sequencing (RNA-Seq) datasets on the HeliSphere Technology Center (http://open.helicosbio.com), the company's open access website for sharing Helicos datasets and bioinformatics software tools. Helicos' amplification and ligation-free approach is projected to… Read More
SAGE-Hindawi launch five new titles - April 6, 2009
Academic publisher SAGE and STM publisher Hindawi have announced the further expansion of their joint publishing collaboration, SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research. Five new titles are now live on the SAGE-Hindawi platform. These include Journal of Nucleic Acids; Stem Cells International; Journal of… Read More
Oxford Journals launches new OA journal – DATABASE - April 3, 2009
Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, has announced the launch of an innovative, open access journal, DATABASE: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation. David Landsman will serve as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. The new journal seeks… Read More
