King Abdulaziz University and Taylor & Francis sign open access publishing partnership - December 2, 2025
King Abdulaziz University and Taylor & Francis have formed a new open access publishing partnership to broaden the global reach of the university’s research programs. The partnership enables authors at King Abdulaziz University to publish open access articles in more than 2,500 journals within… Read More
Max Planck Society joins PeerJ AIMs program for APC-free publishing - November 28, 2025
The Max Planck Society has joined the PeerJ Annual Institutional Membership (AIMs) program, enabling authors from Max Planck institutes to publish in PeerJ journals without article processing charges. The membership allows corresponding or administrative authors affiliated with a Max Planck institute to submit and… Read More
IGI Global Scientific Publishing and Mississippi State University form open access partnership - November 26, 2025
IGI Global Scientific Publishing has entered a new Open Access Agreement with Mississippi State University to expand faculty publishing opportunities across a broad range of scholarly publications. Through the agreement, Mississippi State University faculty receive discounted Article Processing Charges when publishing in IGI Global Scientific Publishing’s Open… Read More
Florida State Open Publishing opens 2025 call for open-access publication proposals - November 24, 2025
Florida State Open Publishing has opened its annual call for proposals, inviting members of the Florida State University community to submit concepts for open-access monographs, textbooks, journals, and specialized projects. The program, based within the Office of Digital Research and Scholarship… Read More
ASBMB introduces new open access journal to expand research publishing in biochemistry and molecular biology - November 21, 2025
The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) has launched Insights in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IBMB), a new journal designed to broaden the dissemination of research across the molecular life sciences. IBMB joins the society’s existing publications — the Journal of Biological… Read More
Gates Foundation grant supports Mapping U.S. Diamond Open Access Journals project - November 21, 2025
A new Gates Foundation grant of $206,886 awarded to Lyrasis, in collaboration with the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Center for Library Programs and the California Digital Library, will support the Mapping U.S. Diamond Open Access Journals project. The initiative is designed to advance community-governed… Read More
American Physical Society launches PRX Intelligence: new open access journal on AI and machine learning in physical sciences - November 20, 2025
The American Physical Society (APS) has announced the launch of PRX Intelligence, a new open access journal dedicated to publishing manuscripts on artificial intelligence and machine learning methods and their applications in advancing scientific understanding.. The journal will begin accepting submissions in February 2026.… Read More
CAUL announces landmark open access agreement with Taylor & Francis for Australasian Universities - November 14, 2025
The Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL) has announced an in-principle open access agreement with global publisher Taylor & Francis, marking a major step toward fairer and more sustainable access to research for universities in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. The in-principle agreement has… Read More
SPARC Europe calls for integrated strategy to connect Open Access, Open Science and open Education in higher education - November 14, 2025
SPARC Europe has released a new position paper, The Case for Connecting the Opens, advocating for a unified approach that integrates Open Access, Open Science, Open Education, and related open approaches across higher education institutions. The initiative calls for coordination among universities, libraries, faculty,… Read More
PLOS launches two new open access journals: PLOS Aging and Health and PLOS Ecosystems - November 14, 2025
The Public Library of Science (PLOS) has launched two new open access journals: PLOS Aging and Health and PLOS Ecosystems, with an aim to address pressing global challenges through cross-disciplinary research and open science principles. Both journals follow PLOS’s Flat Fee model, designed to remove financial barriers… Read More
