University of Geneva and Frontiers announce publishing agreement - April 22, 2022
University of Geneva has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible University of Geneva researchers may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to them and with a simplified process. Articles may… Read More
The Company of Biologists connects to the OA Switchboard - April 20, 2022
The Company of Biologists has announced a partnership with the OA Switchboard which makes it much easier for library customers to manage their Read & Publish agreements and to monitor the success of their Open Access (OA) strategy. Lack of standardisation between systems,… Read More
University of California Libraries and JMIR Publications renew multi-payer OA agreement - April 13, 2022
JMIR Publications has announced the renewal of its multi-payer agreement with the University of California (UC) for an additional year. Renewal of the agreement continues UC’s funding support for its affiliated authors who choose to publish in JMIR’s unique portfolio of journals, which focuses on digital health… Read More
Elsevier announces free special issue to commemorate WHO’s World Health Day 2022 - April 7, 2022
Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, has launched a free access special issue of curated content focused on environmental issues in recognition of the WHO’s World Health Day. Consisting of specially curated journal articles and book… Read More
ACM takes a significant step towards becoming a fully OA publisher - April 7, 2022
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), has announced that its first 50 years of publications, from 1951 through the end of 2000, are now open and freely available to view and download via the ACM Digital Library. ACM’s first 50 years backfile contains… Read More
JMIR Publications and Jisc announce Open Access agreement - April 7, 2022
JMIR Publications, the leading publisher of digital health research, and Jisc, the UK’s digital body for education and research, have entered a two-year pilot agreement offering member institutions unlimited open access (OA) publishing in the growing JMIR family of journals for… Read More
Springer Nature adds new medical technologies title to its OA portfolio - April 6, 2022
As the largest publisher of open access (OA) primary research, Springer Nature continues to explore new outlets and platforms for the advancement of scientific discovery. BMC’s (part of Springer Nature) latest addition to the fully OA journal portfolio BMC Digital Health, is a key… Read More
Wiley and South African consortium SANLiC sign OA agreement - April 6, 2022
Global research and education leader Wiley has announced a new ground-breaking, four-year agreement with SANLiC (South African National Library and Information Consortium), a consortium of public South African higher education and research institutions, with the aim to deliver more open-access research and empower scholars… Read More
Annual Reviews to make all content freely available through Subscribe to Open model - April 6, 2022
Non-profit publisher Annual Reviews has announced that over the next 18 months they will make their entire portfolio of 51 academic journals freely available to everyone under a new model called Subscribe to Open. These highly cited journals cover topics across the sciences, including… Read More
cOAlition S and ALPSP release Open Access toolkit - April 4, 2022
Smaller independent publishers, libraries, and consortia can now more easily enter into Open Access agreements because of a set of new tools published by cOAlition S and the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). In order to foster a diverse, open scholarly… Read More
