Big Ten Academic Alliance partners with OA Switchboard to support open access - March 15, 2023
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) libraries have announced a new partnership with OA Switchboard to aid in the transition to open access and promote the growth of open scholarship. This partnership will allow BTAA members to benefit from OA Switchboard's standardized metadata protocol… Read More
EMBO Press transitions to fully open access - March 15, 2023
Scientific publisher EMBO Press has announced that effective from January 1, 2024, all its journals, including The EMBO Journal and EMBO Reports, will switch from encouraging Open Access publication to applying Open Access to all published papers. The move aims to promote Open Science for individual researchers,… Read More
Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development and Frontiers form publishing agreement - March 10, 2023
Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development has recently announced a new publishing agreement with Frontiers, an open access publisher. This agreement will make it easier for eligible researchers at the university to publish their work in open access format. Under the institutional membership agreement,… Read More
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
