Max Planck Society and Brill sign three year agreement for Open Access books and chapters - October 19, 2022
Brill has announced a new collaboration with the Max Planck Society on Open Access for books. Within this agreement, Brill offers a discount on the book and chapter publication charge for all affiliates of the Max Planck Institutes. Coordinated by the Max Planck Digital… Read More
PeerJ and the University of Kansas announce three year membership program, providing an alternative to APCs for Open Access publishing - October 14, 2022
PeerJ has announced an agreement with University of Kansas (KU) Libraries to join its Three-Year Memberships Program, giving their faculty a high-quality and sustainable Open Access publishing option. Under the agreement, which provides an alternative to Article Processing Charges (APCs) for OA, KU Libraries… Read More
Fondazione MultiMedica Onlus announces publishing agreement with Frontiers - October 12, 2022
Fondazione MultiMedica Onlus has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible Fondazione MultiMedica Onlus researchers may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to them and with a simplified process. Articles may benefit from a 10%… Read More
Pensoft’s ARPHA publishing platform integrates with OA Switchboard to streamline reporting to funders of open research - September 30, 2022
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 - September 28, 2022
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 - September 22, 2022
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 - September 21, 2022
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 - September 21, 2022
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 - September 16, 2022
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 - September 15, 2022
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
