Wolters Kluwer launches open access pilot for medical research in India - March 5, 2026
Wolters Kluwer Health has introduced the Lippincott Open Access India APC Advantage Pilot as part of its Open Access strategy for medical research in India. The initiative establishes an India-focused Open Access program through the Lippincott publishing portfolio, which is described as globally recognized… Read More
AIP Publishing joins OA Switchboard to support standardized exchange of open access publication metadata - March 4, 2026
AIP Publishing has joined OA Switchboard, a community infrastructure designed to enable standardized exchange of open access publication metadata between publishers, research institutions, and funding organizations. Through participation in the network, AIP Publishing will provide publication metadata through OA Switchboard, including author affiliation, funder… Read More
ALMASI launches Diamond OA policy forums to strengthen global scholarly publishing ecosystem - March 3, 2026
The ALMASI project (Aligning and Mutualizing Nonprofit Open Access Publishing Services Internationally) will convene a coordinated series of regional and cross-regional policy forums in March 2026 aimed at strengthening Diamond open access (OA) and advancing more equitable scholarly publishing systems. Funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe… Read More
Frontiers and Sikt renew national open access agreement for 2026 - February 26, 2026
Frontiers and the Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research (Sikt) have announced the renewal of their national open access agreement for 2026. First established in 2020, the agreement has been renewed to allow 38 Norwegian institutions and research centers to continue… Read More
Four Ohio University Press titles join first 100 open access books in JSTOR’s Path to Open program - February 26, 2026
Four Ohio University Press scholarly monographs are among the first 100 books to become openly available through JSTOR’s Path to Open program, an initiative designed to transform access to high-quality academic work. The titles include Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence;… Read More
IGI Global Scientific Publishing renews open access agreement with East Carolina University - February 25, 2026
IGI Global Scientific Publishing has renewed an Open Access Agreement with East Carolina University (ECU), continuing a collaboration designed to support open access publishing. Under the agreement, ECU faculty receive Article Processing Charge (APC) and Chapter Processing Charge (CPC) funding from the university library… Read More
AIP Publishing and Max Planck Society sign three-Year AIP Fusion agreement to advance open access and open science - February 24, 2026
AIP Publishing and the Max Planck Society have announced a three-year AIP Fusion agreement designed to expand open access publishing through an institution-level model. Negotiated by the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) on behalf of the Society, the agreement provides researchers affiliated with Max… Read More
Pensoft launches Advances in Pollinator Research as diamond open access journal - February 20, 2026
Pensoft has launched Advances in Pollinator Research, a diamond open-access journal intended to unify pollinator science efforts. The journal was developed in collaboration with the European Union pollinator projects community. Advances in Pollinator Research (APR) is a multidisciplinary, community-driven, peer-reviewed journal focused on how… Read More
MDPI renews flat-fee publishing agreement with Universidad Católica de Valencia through 2026 - February 19, 2026
MDPI has renewed its Flat-Fee Publishing Agreement with the Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir (UCV) following the 2024–2025 agreement period. The renewal extends the agreement for the 2025–2026 year. The arrangement applies across MDPI’s portfolio of more than 500 peer-reviewed journals. Under… Read More
Royal Society journals to become open access in 2026 through Subscribe to Open - February 18, 2026
The Royal Society has confirmed that its eight subscription journals will be published as open access in 2026 under its Subscribe to Open (S2O) strategy, supported by libraries. As a result, research published in journals including Proceedings of the Royal Society and Philosophical Transactions… Read More
