American publishers may go to Congress to challenge NIH open access policy - September 9, 2008
The Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property of the House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee in the US is scheduled to hold a hearing on September 11. According to media reports, the move is seen to be a legislative attempt to redress publishers' concerns that public access policies -… Read More
Bloomsbury launches new imprint for open access academic publishing - September 9, 2008
Publishing house Bloomsbury Publishing, UK, has announced its entry into academic publishing with a new imprint: Bloomsbury Academic. All books will be made available free of charge online, with free downloads, for non-commercial purposes immediately upon publication, using Creative Commons licences. The… Read More
Chinese scientist appeals for funding to make Chinese journals OA - September 5, 2008
Zhu Zuoyan, a recently retired deputy head of the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), has reportedly appealed for funding to make several Chinese journals open access (OA). To boost the country's scientific journals, he urged to give priority to domestic science publications. According to Zuoyan, government-funded open access journals… Read More
SPARC, PLoS and students for FreeCulture to hold first OA day - September 1, 2008
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and Students for FreeCulture have jointly announced the first international Open Access Day. Building on the worldwide momentum toward Open Access to publicly funded… Read More
Max Planck Society in OA contract with PLoS for central funding of publication fees - August 25, 2008
German research organisation Max Planck Society (MPS) has announced an agreement with the Public Library of Science (PLoS) for the central funding of publication fees of MPS scientists. The move is projected to reflect MPS' commitment to ensure public availability of its… Read More
Chemistry Central Journal accepted for tracking by Thomson Reuters - August 22, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that its journal Chemistry Central Journal has been accepted for tracking by Thomson Reuters. The journal will receive its first Impact Factor in June 2009. Also, all the articles published in the journal will be available through Web… Read More
Hindawi launches Open Access Institutional Membership Program - August 20, 2008
STM publisher Hindawi Publishing Corporation, US, has announced the launch of its Open Access Institutional Membership program. The programme will enable authors from member institutes to publish their work in Hindawi's more than 125 open access journals without having to administer and pay any Article Processing… Read More
Taylor & Francis to deposit NIH-funded articles into PubMed Central - August 15, 2008
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis, UK, has announced that it will deposit into PubMed Central (PMC) author manuscripts on behalf of Taylor & Francis, Routledge and Psychology Press authors reporting NIH funded research. This service is offered as part of Taylor & Francis' new 2008 deposit… Read More
UCLA Library gets Mellon grant for project to make rare books more accessible - August 13, 2008
The UCLA Library has received a $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to catalogue more than 55,000 rare books and make them more accessible to users. The project will involve two concurrent efforts focused on rare books in the Charles E. Young Research Library… Read More
Duke University Libraries receive grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation for Open Library Environment project - August 11, 2008
The Duke University Libraries have received a $475,700 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to design the next-generation, open-source library system that seeks to meet the changing and complex needs of 21st-century libraries and library users. The Open Library Environment (OLE)… Read More
