De Gruyter to make 37 more journals freely available via Subscribe to Open model in 2025 - July 5, 2024
De Gruyter is set to significantly expand its Subscribe-to-Open program, DG2O, by transforming an additional 37 journals into open access by 2025. This ambitious move aims to further democratize access to scholarly research, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. Among the notable journals… Read More
USU Libraries open new round of funding for open access publishing - June 28, 2024
Utah State University (USU) Libraries has announced the start of a new funding round for its Open Access (OA) Funding Initiative on July 1, 2024. The initiative will provide financial support to students and faculty to cover article processing charges (APCs) for publishing in academic journals. Open… Read More
ALPSP responds to UK Research Excellence Framework 2029 OA Policy Consultation - June 26, 2024
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has submitted its response to the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029 Open Access (OA) Policy Consultation. Representing over 320 member organizations across 35 countries, ALPSP advocates for not-for-profit organizations publishing scholarly and professional content. In their letter,… Read More
MDPI Korea solidifies open access partnerships with six institutions - June 21, 2024
MDPI Korea office has signed and/or renewed IOAP contracts with the following six institutions in South Korea: Yeungnam University, Kyung Hee University, Gachon University, Jeonbuk National University, Sungkyunkwan University, and Far East University. The Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) provides transparency to the MDPI submission process, access to… Read More
cOAlition S recommendations on OA policy for Research Excellence Framework - June 20, 2024
cOAlition S, an international consortium of research funding and performing organizations has provided feedback on the draft open access (OA) policy for the UK’s next Research Excellence Framework (REF) in 2029, suggesting revisions for closer alignment with Plan S and with global calls towards… Read More
University Libraries announce OA agreement with Wiley - June 17, 2024
The University Libraries has announced an agreement with Wiley that will enable University of Arkansas researchers to make their journal articles open access without paying a publishing charge. Wiley, one of the world's largest publishers and a global leader in research and learning, publishes… Read More
The facets of Diamond OA across Europe - June 17, 2024
The richness of Diamond Open Access (OA) publishing is characterized by its diversity: from the wide-ranging disciplines it serves in multiple languages to the types of organizations and networks involved in developing, running, or maintaining it. The context of a country’s publishing industry and national political, social, and economic OA… Read More
Functional Ecology set to become a fully open access journal - June 12, 2024
The British Ecological Society has announced that the Functional Ecology journal is moving to a fully open-access publication. Functional Ecology (FE) publishes papers that significantly advance our mechanistic understanding of ecological patterns and processes from the organismic to the ecosystem scale. Until now, researchers… Read More
Journal Comparison Service simplifies data comparison with unified framework - June 7, 2024
The Journal Comparison Service (JCS) has announced a significant change to its data submission process, effective from November 1, 2024. Moving forward, JCS will exclusively accept data supplied using the Information Power (IP) framework, discontinuing support for the Fair Open Access (FOAA) framework. This strategic shift aims… Read More
Springer Nature simplifies open research for authors with enhanced protocols offering - June 6, 2024
Following its acquisition of protocols.io in 2023, Springer Nature has announced the migration of all protocols currently hosted on Protocols Exchange to the innovative protocols.io platform. This strategic move positions protocols.io as the new home for Springer Nature's fully open biomedical and life sciences… Read More
