Improving access to digital materials in Armenia: National Library launches new repository - March 9, 2023
The National Library of Armenia (NLA) has established a new open access repository using DSpace software, thanks to the support of the Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL). The new repository will improve access to the NLA's digital materials, which include open access Armenian theses… Read More
Library community supports Subscribe to Open Mathematics journals – open access to continue in 2023 - March 8, 2023
EDP Sciences and the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI) have announced that their Subscribe to Open (S2O) model for open access publication of six mathematics journals has been successfully supported by the library community for another year, allowing the… Read More
UK universities renew national open access deal with Frontiers - March 7, 2023
Researchers from over 160 UK universities will continue to benefit from a simplified and streamlined route to open access publishing, owing to the renewal of JISC collections’ partnership with gold open access publisher Frontiers. The initial partnership with JISC, which undertakes negotiations and… Read More
All Royal Astronomical Society journals to publish as open access from 2024 - March 2, 2023
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has announced that all journals published by the Society will be Open Access (OA) from January 2024. This move will enable everyone in the global community to have free, immediate, and unrestricted access to the high-quality research published in the portfolio of… Read More
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
