EIFL joins DIAMAS project to develop Diamond Open Access Publishing in Europe - September 21, 2022
EIFL has joined the ‘Developing Institutional Open Access Publishing Models to Advance Scholarly Communication’ (DIAMAS) project, which was launched earlier this month and has received funding from the European Union to develop Diamond Open Access Publishing in Europe. The DIAMAS project brings together… Read More
IOP Publishing and ChronosHub partner to simplify OA publishing - September 16, 2022
IOP Publishing (IOPP) has announced a new collaboration with ChronosHub, a platform that streamlines the open access publishing workflow to unburden researchers. The initial phase of the collaboration includes a free-to-use IOPP branded Journal Finder, which enables authors to easily check if the IOPP… Read More
PLOS and DataSeer partnership to support Open Science practices - September 15, 2022
The Public Library of Science (PLOS) and DataSeer have announced an extended partnership that will provide new insights on how PLOS journals support Open Science practices. Earlier this year, PLOS and DataSeer collaborated on a project to quantify code sharing at… Read More
Brill and FWF transforms Historische Anthropologie to become full open access - September 15, 2022
Brill, the international scholarly publisher, has announced the agreement with the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) which will transform the journal Historische Anthropologie/Historical Anthropology to full Open Access by 2025. The agreement covers the conversion of the publication workflows to enable XML-based, digital-first publishing,… Read More
CCC unveils OA Agreement Intelligence - September 14, 2022
CCC, a leading provider of Open Access (OA) workflow solutions, has launched OA Agreement Intelligence, the only agreement modeling solution that enables publishers to prepare, build, and analyze their OA data so that they can create and communicate sustainable and transparent agreements with their… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry sign three Read & Publish agreements with IReL, Central Technical Library at the University of Ljubljana (CTK) and Couperin - September 7, 2022
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has signed three Read & Publish deals respectively with the Irish Research eLibrary (IReL) in Ireland, Central Technical Library at the University of Ljubljana (CTK) in Slovenia and, Couperin in France. These new deals in Europe support endeavours… Read More
EIFL, Creative Commons and SPARC launch 4-year campaign to open climate and biodiversity knowledge - September 1, 2022
EIFL, Creative Commons and SPARC have launched the Open Climate Campaign, a major four-year campaign to open research in climate science and biodiversity. Climate change, and the resulting harm to the global biodiversity, are among the world's most… Read More
WVU Libraries in deal with PLOS to support researchers publishing Open Access - August 26, 2022
The West Virginia University Libraries recently began a partnership with the Public Library of Science (PLOS) to provide researchers with the opportunity to publish, free of processing charges, in any of their Open Access titles over the next three years. PLOS is a… Read More
Accelerating access to research findings supported by federal funds - August 26, 2022
NLM is prepared to support NIH's implementation of new policy recommendations given by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) via PubMed Central (PMC) and other pertinent data repositories. PMC is the NLM's free… Read More
cOAlition S applauds the White House Office of Science Technology and Policy’s OA policy guidance - August 25, 2022
cOAlition S – an international consortium of research funding and performing organisations working to deliver full and immediate Open Access – welcomes the announcement from the White House Office of Science Technology and Policy mandating that all federally funded research results should be made… Read More