Frontiers and Medical University of Lodz sign OA publishing agreement - February 24, 2023
The Medical University of Lodz has formed an institutional partnership agreement for open-access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that the eligible Medical University of Lodz researchers may benefit from a 10% partnership discount when publishing in any Frontiers journal. The information and… Read More
Penn State University Libraries expand OA support via 3 new BTAA agreements - February 22, 2023
Penn State University Libraries, through the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), recently finalized three-year, 2023-25 agreements with three scholarly publishers. The agreements with Wiley, Institute of Physics and Microbiology Society will help to expand access to scholarly content, promote open access (OA) publishing, and increase visibility of Penn… Read More
ALA journal LRTS is now fully open access - February 10, 2023
Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS), ALA’s premier journal dedicated exclusively to all aspects of collections, is now completely open access. Previously, the most recent six issues of LRTS were embargoed behind a login for subscribers and Core members, which has been removed. This change makes the… Read More
EMS Press opens 21 journals in its 3rd year of Subscribe to Open programme - February 10, 2023
EMS Press, the publishing house of the European Mathematical Society, has been successful in opening its full Subscribe To Open (S2O) programme for a third consecutive year. Twenty-one titles will be published fully open access under S2O in 2023, alongside a further three Diamond open access publications.… Read More
Oxford University Press and China’s largest education press partner to publish three OA journals - February 9, 2023
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced a new agreement with China’s largest education press, Higher Education Press (HEP), to publish three leading open access journals, Protein & Cell, Life Metabolism, and Life Medicine. HEP and OUP have a long history of book licensing together stretching… Read More
Cambridge University Press opens access to majority of its research papers - February 6, 2023
Over 50 percent of Cambridge University Press research articles are now published open access (OA) and so freely available to read. Having passed the 50 percent threshold for last year – approximately 10,000 papers being fully open – Cambridge University Press is aiming for the vast majority… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. unveils new OA Journal, Robotics Reports - January 30, 2023
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. has announced the launch of Robotics Reports, a new multidisciplinary open access journal devoted to the broad field of robotics. Robotics Reports will provide every author and reader the opportunity to rapidly publish and access the latest technological advances in… Read More
IEEE and HEAL-Link sign three-year OA agreement - January 27, 2023
Technical professional organization IEEE has reached a three-year open access agreement with Hellenic Academic Libraries Link (HEAL-Link), a consortium of Greek universities that includes 43 institutions. With this new agreement, all researchers belonging to participating Greek institutions are now able to publish open access articles in… Read More
Jisc and Copernicus Publications partner to streamline open access publication - January 27, 2023
Jisc has announced a new agreement with Copernicus Publications, a fully open access, not-for-profit publisher, whose portfolio of journals covers engineering, geosciences, humanities and life sciences. The agreement helps institutions streamline administering open access publication, making it quicker and easier. Copernicus uses… Read More
Wiley and CzechELib sign four-year OA agreement in Czech Republic - January 25, 2023
Wiley, a global leader in research and education, has announced an open access agreement with Czech National Library of Technology (NTK) (CzechELib). The four-year agreement will provide CzechELib participants access to view and publish in Wiley’s complete hybrid journal portfolio, which includes 1,400 journals, beginning January… Read More
