Big Ten Academic Alliance and JSTOR collaborate to make university press monographs open access through Path to Open pilot - April 17, 2023
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) and JSTOR have announced a multi-year agreement for Path to Open pilot, a new cost-effective, sustainable publishing model aimed at supporting university press monographs and making them open access after three years. The pilot will… Read More
Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases announces transition to Gold Open Access - April 13, 2023
The Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases (JND), published by IOS Press, is transitioning to a Gold Open Access publication starting from July 1, 2023, with the release of Volume 10, Issue 4. This move will make all articles published in the journal available online for… Read More
University of California and Wiley expand open access agreement to all 10 UC campuses - April 12, 2023
The University of California (UC) and global publisher Wiley have announced an expansion of their open access agreement, making UC research more accessible to people around the world. Under the new agreement, researchers at all 10 UC campuses and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory… Read More
Cambridge University Press to waive open access fees for scholars in 107 countries - April 12, 2023
Cambridge University Press has announced that it will waive open access fees for authors from 107 low- and middle-income countries to publish their research in over 400 Cambridge journals. This move aims to help overcome financial barriers to publishing open access research in countries where research funding… Read More
UK higher education and research sector takes a significant step forward with new open access agreement with ACM - April 12, 2023
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has signed an open access deal with Jisc, a non-profit UK organization that supports higher education and research institutions. The deal enables authors to publish their research on an open access basis without having to pay article processing charges… Read More
The National Institute for Research & Development in Chemistry and Petrochemistry (ICECHIM) and Frontiers join forces for Open Access publishing - April 12, 2023
The National Institute for Research & Development in Chemistry and Petrochemistry (ICECHIM) in Bucharest, Romania has announced a new partnership with Frontiers, a leading Open Access publisher. The agreement will allow eligible ICECHIM researchers to publish in Frontiers journals without any cost and with… Read More
CERN implements Open Access policy for peer-reviewed primary research articles - April 7, 2023
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has announced that it will require all peer-reviewed primary research articles from CERN authors to be published open access. To ensure compliance with the policy, the CERN Scientific Information Service (SIS) has implemented a range of mechanisms… Read More
Open Access Community Framework phase 2 now open for publisher submissions - April 5, 2023
The open access community framework (OACF) phase 2 is now open to submissions from not-for-profit monograph publishers until May 5, 2023, after a successful pilot in 2022. The OACF scheme connects not-for-profit “diamond” open access publishers, operating under a free-to-read, free-to-publish model, with the higher education sector.… Read More
Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Frontiers sign publishing agreement - April 3, 2023
The journal Acta Virologica will move to gold open access publisher Frontiers in April, as part of an agreement signed by the Institute of Virology from the Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAS). The agreement is Frontiers’ first… Read More
Conversion to OA using equitable new model sees upsurge in usage of expert scientific knowledge - April 3, 2023
Non-profit science publisher Annual Reviews has successfully converted the first fifteen journal volumes of the year to open access (OA) resulting in substantial increases in downloads of articles in the first month. Through the innovative OA model called Subscribe to Open (S2O), existing institutional customers continue… Read More
