The Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries renews its national agreement with MDPI - June 22, 2022
At the beginning of 2022, the ongoing national agreement between MDPI and the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries (CSAL) was renewed through to the end of 2022. The CSAL consortium is a strong proponent of open access internationally, working towards guaranteeing the quality… Read More
Wiley and Italian Consortium Bibliosan announce Open Access agreement - June 20, 2022
Global research and education leader Wiley has announced a new four-year agreement with Bibliosan, a consortium of medical research institutes and hospitals in Italy. This agreement will provide 68 institutions access to Wiley's complete journal portfolio and enable participating researchers to publish accepted articles open access in… Read More
European Union Council conclusions on Open Science signals progress - June 20, 2022
On 10 June 2022, after a comprehensive consultation, the Council of the European Union (EU) reached a set of conclusions on implementing Open Science and research assessment. The Council called on the EU Commission to work on an improved regulatory framework for unimpeded access to and reuse… Read More
The Company of Biologists joins Jisc’s Publications Router service - June 20, 2022
The Company of Biologists is now providing full-text Open Access (OA) articles for distribution to UK institutional repositories via Jisc’s Publications Router service. This means that the version of record is delivered automatically to authors’ institutions, usually within seven weeks of acceptance, together with… Read More
CAUL partners with Annual Reviews to pilot Subscribe to Open in 2022 - June 16, 2022
Starting June 14th, all Annual Reviews content published between 2013-2022 will be openly available across Australia and New Zealand. This includes all articles authored by Australian and New Zealand researchers during this period. The journals provide overviews of scientific progress across the life, biological, physical, and social… Read More
EIFL collaborates with the OA Switchboard to support information sharing - June 13, 2022
Open Access (OA) is growing every year. The agreements that EIFL has negotiated with publishers for waived or discounted Article Processing Charges (APCs) are one of the drivers of this global growth. It is important that library consortia and libraries in EIFL partner countries can monitor the… Read More
Methods in Ecology and Evolution set to become a fully open access journal - June 9, 2022
The British Ecological Society has announced that one of its youngest journals, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, will become a fully open access publication from January 2023. Methods in Ecology and Evolution (MEE) publishes methodological papers in all areas of ecology and evolutionary biology,… Read More
Nature Masterclasses online training made free to access for researchers in lower-income nations - June 8, 2022
Springer Nature has made Nature Masterclasses on-demand online training content free to access for researchers in lower-income countries through Research4Life. Nature Masterclasses offers highly targeted courses designed to enhance the skills and boost the confidence of early career researchers, with over… Read More
JMIRx Med becomes first preprint overlay journal to be accepted in the DOAJ - June 8, 2022
JMIR Publications has announced that JMIRx Med has been accepted and indexed—as the first preprint overlay journal—in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). DOAJ applies strict criteria to review and index open access journals, which include licensing and copyright criteria,… Read More
The University of Lincoln joins Frontiers – JISC national open access deal - June 6, 2022
The University of Lincoln has joined the UK national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers. This landmark deal provides a simplified and streamlined route to open access publishing for researchers in the UK. The University of Lincoln supports its researchers… Read More
