WMU Libraries releases 2024 survey on open access publishing - September 22, 2025
Western Michigan University Libraries has released results from its 2024 Open Access Publishing Survey, led by Professors Michele Behr and Ed Eckel, examining experiences with open access publishing among Western faculty, staff, and graduate students. The survey had 192 responses collected from October through… Read More
Library roles in open science: collaborating for equitable publishing - September 19, 2025
Open science efforts aim to make research outputs freely accessible by 2030. Implementation depends on librarians who connect research, access, and infrastructure, and who now also advise on copyright, analyze research impact, and negotiate institutional publishing agreements. Their work influences open science practices locally and across broader academic networks. Frontiers… Read More
JMIR–Jisc flat-fee OA partnership adds six UK institutions - September 19, 2025
JMIR Publications and Jisc expanded their Flat-Fee Unlimited Open Access Partnership effective August 1, 2025, adding six UK institutions: the University of Manchester, University of Nottingham, Newcastle University, University of Leeds, University of Southampton, and University of Warwick. For affiliated researchers, the flat-fee arrangement… Read More
Milner Library expands open-access publishing - September 19, 2025
Illinois State University’s Milner Library has reported progress in expanding open-access (OA) publishing agreements that support faculty and student research. Since 2020, the library has negotiated 15 OA agreements with scholarly publishers, resulting in the publication of 138 articles by 314 authors. About one-third of the published… Read More
Witten/Herdecke University joins JMIR–ZB Med flat-fee OA publishing agreement - September 18, 2025
JMIR Publications and ZB Med have announced that Witten/Herdecke University has joined their Flat-Fee Unlimited Open Access Publishing Agreement. The addition was facilitated by Ulrike Weichern of KGL Accucoms. Witten/Herdecke is the third German institution to join the JMIR–ZB Med agreement… Read More
Ball State University Libraries signs open access publishing agreement with Cambridge University Press - September 12, 2025
Ball State University Libraries, the library system of Ball State University, has entered into an open access publishing agreement with Cambridge University Press, the academic publisher of the University of Cambridge. The arrangement expands options for Ball State–affiliated researchers to publish open access without… Read More
University of the Balearic Islands partners with Frontiers to expand open access publishing - September 11, 2025
The University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) - Universitat de les Illes Balears - has entered into an institutional partnership with open-access publisher Frontiers to increase the availability of its research outputs. The agreement provides eligible UIB researchers with full coverage of article publishing… Read More
ACM signs open access agreement with Canadian regional consortia - September 11, 2025
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has signed a three-year transformative read-and-publish agreement with eight Canadian regional library consortia, representing 72 institutions. The agreement expands open access publishing opportunities while providing premium access to ACM Digital Library. Member institutions will receive full access to the ACM Digital… Read More
CLOCKSS launches pilot to preserve Diamond Open Access publications - September 8, 2025
CLOCKSS has introduced a new pilot initiative aimed at preserving Diamond Open Access (OA) publications—journals that operate without charging authors or readers. These journals play a key role in community-driven research dissemination but often lack the infrastructure for long-term digital preservation. This pilot allows libraries, including new… Read More
MIT Press expands Direct to Open model with new publishing partners - September 5, 2025
As Direct to Open (D2O) enters its fifth funding cycle, MIT Press has announced new partnerships with Duke University Press and Goldsmiths Press—marking a significant expansion of its diamond open access model for scholarly monographs. Beginning in 2026,… Read More
