Animal Welfare journal moving to Cambridge, will become fully open access - July 1, 2022
Animal Welfare - the official journal of the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW) – is moving to Cambridge. It will become fully open access in 2023. This move means anyone can read the research it publishes online and free of charge. Animal… Read More
IGI Global and Auckland University of Technology reach open access agreement - June 27, 2022
IGI Global, a medium-sized independent academic research publisher, has announced a new Open Access (OA) agreement with Auckland University of Technology (AUT). AUT has invested in an OA fund to support their faculty and staff's research through IGI Global's Open Access Agreement option. … Read More
Hindawi makes detailed publishing metrics publicly available - June 24, 2022
Hindawi Limited has announced the launch of new journal reports. These journal reports showcase a range of publishing metrics, from submission through peer review and discovery - providing greater than ever insight into the performance and makeup of their journals. The reports were created in partnership… Read More
Anglia Ruskin University joins Frontiers – JISC national open access deal - June 24, 2022
Anglia Ruskin University has joined the 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, who publish 7% of the world's research. This institutional… Read More
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
