OA2020 working group examines financial flows to advance equitable investment in open access publishing - February 18, 2026
As the global transition to open access continues, OA2020 has launched a collaborative effort to examine how financial flows in scholarly publishing can be realigned to support equitable and transparent open dissemination. Despite substantial funds circulating within the scholarly communication ecosystem, these resources remain largely structured around… Read More
Columbia University Libraries open access agreement offers 5% APC and CPC discount with IGI Global Scientific Publishing - February 17, 2026
IGI Global Scientific Publishing has entered into an open access publishing agreement with Columbia University Libraries. Through the agreement, Columbia University-affiliated authors receive a 5% discount on Article Processing Charges (APCs) and Chapter Processing Charges (CPCs) when publishing in IGI Global Scientific Publishing’s Open… Read More
JSTOR’s Path to Open titles surpass 2025 usage in five weeks, driving global open access growth - February 17, 2026
The first 100 titles made openly available through JSTOR’s Path to Open program have recorded higher usage in five weeks of open access than during the entire year of licensed access in 2025, according to new program data. According to JSTOR, the first 100… Read More
ACS and Case Western Reserve University announce new open access agreement - February 13, 2026
Authors affiliated with Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) are now able to publish open access journal articles in American Chemical Society (ACS) hybrid journals at no cost, with no yearly limits. The agreement was negotiated through OhioLINK and applies to articles… Read More
Springer Nature launches Nature Progress open access journal series within Nature Portfolio - February 12, 2026
Springer Nature has announced the launch of Nature Progress, a new Nature-branded journal series within the Nature Portfolio. The publisher has positioned the initiative as a response to community feedback, with Nature Progress journals intended to expand access to high-impact publishing for a broader range of researchers,… Read More
EMS Press confirms third year of full open access under Subscribe to Open - February 12, 2026
EMS Press, the publishing house of the European Mathematical Society (EMS), has announced a third consecutive year of full open access across all 22 of its Subscribe to Open (S2O) journals, after confirming that baseline sustainability thresholds have again been met. All articles published… Read More
University of Massachusetts Lowell enables open access publishing in Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press journals - February 11, 2026
The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML) has announced that, effective January 2026, researchers affiliated with the institution can publish open access in gold or hybrid open access journals published by Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press without paying Article Processing… Read More
Canadian Science Publishing signs open access publishing agreement with Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet - February 6, 2026
Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) and Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet (SLU) have entered into a new open access publishing agreement. The agreement provides SLU authors with unlimited open access publishing in select CSP journals. SLU authors also receive access to the CSP portfolio. The agreement is effective from January 1,… Read More
IReL members expand support for Diamond open access publishing in 2026 - February 6, 2026
Since 2025, the Irish Research eLibrary (IReL) has been promoting and coordinating member support for Diamond open access (OA) publishing, a model described as open access without barriers to participation. Under Diamond OA, content is made freely available for anyone to read or reuse, while authors anywhere… Read More
MDPI Institutional Open Access Program agreement applies to 96 institutions across Sweden - February 5, 2026
MDPI has signed a comprehensive Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) agreement covering 96 institutions across Sweden. The announcement states that the agreement applies to researchers affiliated with participating Swedish universities, university colleges, and government research institutes. Researchers at participating institutions are able to publish in any MDPI… Read More
