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
Project MUSE and its participating publishers offer free access for low-income countries - April 3, 2023
As part of its mission to promote the broad dissemination of essential humanities and social science scholarship, and in support of equity in access to scholarly resources, Project MUSE and its participating publishers have announced a program to provide free access to selected journal titles in many… Read More
K-State libraries secure new open access publishing agreements - March 30, 2023
K-State Libraries has secured three new open access publishing agreements with the following publishers - Company of Biologists, Institute of Physics., and the Microbiology Society. These new agreements offer K-State faculty, staff, and students the opportunity to publish articles as open access in… Read More
Brock Library enhancing open access publishing support - March 30, 2023
Brock University is modernizing its model of support for open access publishing to make it more equitable and multi-disciplinary. As the publishing landscape rapidly evolves, the Brock University Library is working to better meet the needs of researchers in line with other Canadian research institutions. New… Read More
DIAMAS launches survey on Diamond Open Access and the institutional publishing landscape - March 29, 2023
The Developing Institutional Open Access Publishing Models to Advance Scholarly Communication (DIAMAS) project has recently launched a survey on Diamond Open Access and the institutional publishing landscape. This consultation aims to map how the sector of scholarly communication is currently organized in order… Read More
