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Pensoft’s ARPHA publishing platform integrates with OA Switchboard to streamline reporting to funders of open research -

By the time authors – who have acknowledged third-party financial support in their research papers submitted to a journal using the Pensoft-developed publishing platform: ARPHA – open their inboxes to the congratulatory message that their work has just been published and made available to… Read More

Plan S Journal Comparison Service now open for libraries and library consortia to register and access price and service data -

cOAlition S has released the end-user portal of the Journal Comparison Service (JCS). This secure, free, online service aims to shed light on publishing fees and services and enable those who procure publishing services to better understand how journals and publishers compare on a… Read More

CAUL welcomes the NHMRC revised open access policy -

The NHMRC recently announced a revised open access policy that represents a major step forward for open access to publicly funded research outputs in Australia. The policy mandates full and immediate open access to research outputs from all grants funded from this point onwards, and for… Read More

The National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia joins cOAlition S -

Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is the first Australian organization to join cOAlition S and the country’s first funding agency to introduce the requirement that scholarly publications arising from the research it funds must be made freely available and accessible. … Read More

EIFL joins DIAMAS project to develop Diamond Open Access Publishing in Europe -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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


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