eLife partners with major UK universities on open access publishing - October 9, 2025
eLife has announced new publishing agreements with Imperial College London and the University of Sheffield under its uncapped institutional scheme, advancing efforts toward a more open, equitable, and sustainable scientific publishing system. The partnerships follow similar arrangements made with the MIT Libraries earlier this year. The two… Read More
CCC integrates localized payment system for authors in China - October 9, 2025
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) has expanded its RightsLink for Scientific Communications (RLSC) solution to include localized payment capabilities for authors in China through integration with the SocoPay payment system developed by the China Educational Publications Import & Export Corporation (CEPIEC). The… Read More
MDPI signs first U.S. consortium agreement with Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries - October 7, 2025
MDPI has signed its first consortium agreement in the United States with the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL), marking a milestone in the publisher’s North American growth. The open-ended agreement provides 16 participating libraries and academic institutions with access to MDPI’s Institutional Open… Read More
De Gruyter Brill expands Subscribe to Open program with 66 journals - October 3, 2025
De Gruyter Brill will expand its Subscribe to Open (S2O) program in 2026 by transitioning 66 additional journals to open access. The move will bring the total number of titles under the initiative, branded DG2O, to 124, marking one of the publisher’s largest expansions… Read More
ASA launches open access journal Anesthesiology Open - October 3, 2025
The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) has launched Anesthesiology Open, a new peer-reviewed, open access journal published by Wolters Kluwer. The journal will serve as a companion to ASA’s flagship publication Anesthesiology and expand opportunities for scholarly communication in the field. Led by executive… Read More
MDPI signs IOAP agreement with Mahasarakham University - September 29, 2025
MDPI Thailand has announced that Mahasarakham University (MSU) joined the Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP). MSU is the third partner in Thailand since the MDPI Bangkok Office began operations. Under this arrangement, researchers affiliated with MSU receive an IOAP discount on… Read More
AAAS statement in response to NIH public access policy - September 26, 2025
AAAS has submitted comments to the National Institutes of Health regarding its July 2025 proposal on ‘Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs.’ In its comments, AAAS commends NIH for tackling the rise in article processing charges (APCs) that scientific journal publishers now… Read More
FCCN supports DOAJ to advance Diamond open access in Portugal - September 25, 2025
FCCN, the digital services unit of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), has become a supporter of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) as part of efforts to strengthen Diamond open access publishing in Portugal. The collaboration will… Read More
JMIR Publications and Iowa State University shift to Flat-Fee Unlimited Open Access Publishing - September 24, 2025
JMIR Publications, an open-access digital health research publisher, and Iowa State University have updated their long-standing partnership, moving from a multi-payor model to JMIR’s Flat-Fee Unlimited Open Access Publishing model. Iowa State is the first research university in the United States to adopt this… Read More
Cambridge and Max Planck outline new model to advance open access book publishing - September 22, 2025
Cambridge University Press and the Max Planck Society have introduced a book sales agreement that combines evidence-based acquisition with open access funding to increase open access publishing and simplify processes for authors. The organizations stated that pairing open access with evidence-based acquisition allows the… Read More
