Astronomy & Astrophysics confirms open access in 2022 via Subscribe-to-Open - April 4, 2022
Following the announcement made in October 2021 that Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) would move to the Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) open-access model in 2022, the A&A board of directors and EDP Sciences have announced that A&A has now received the required level of support and will… Read More
PLOS, AAU, and TCC Africa collaborate to advance Open Science in Africa - March 31, 2022
The Association for African Universities (AAU), the Public Library of Science (PLOS), and the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) will collaborate to increase awareness and provide training around Open Science practices and Open Access publishing in Africa. The objectives… Read More
Frontiers will continue support for UKRI’s Open Access policy - March 31, 2022
Frontiers will continue to support UKRI’s open access policy, which will see all peer-reviewed research articles resulting from its funding made universally and freely accessible to people everywhere. The spirit of Plan S and the open access movement continue to make progress. UKRI should be commended for… Read More
Concordia University and Frontiers form publishing agreement - March 30, 2022
Concordia University has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible Concordia University researchers will be able to publish in any Frontiers journal with a 15% discount. The Concordia University Library supports its researchers… Read More
NIHR releases guidance and resources to facilitate open access policy implementation - March 28, 2022
The National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) has published a suite of guidance and resources to support stakeholders in the implementation of the revised NIHR open access publication policy, which applies to publications submitted from June 1, 2022. Following the announcement of the… Read More
Subscribe-to-Open 2022 Transparency Report for maths journals provides new metrics - March 28, 2022
EDP Sciences has released the Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) 2022 Transparency Report. The annual report details costs and prices related to the EDP Sciences-SMAI Subscribe-to-Open program for the applied mathematics journals they co-publish. As advocates of open science, both EDP Sciences and… Read More
Switzerland and Frontiers reach national Open Access agreement - March 24, 2022
The Swiss research community has announced a new national publishing agreement with the open-access publisher Frontiers. Starting on March 1, 2022, this one-year pilot supports authors from 18 institutions, including hospitals, who will now be able to publish in Frontiers’ broad portfolio of 146 journals, hosted… Read More
Elsevier and Jisc in deal to support the transition to Open Access for UK Research - March 23, 2022
Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, has signed a transitional agreement with Jisc – the negotiating body representing UK academic research institutions – to provide access to global research for UK readers, and to provide immediate open access to UK… Read More
Frontiers and Vytautas Magnus University form publishing agreement - March 21, 2022
Vytautas Magnus University has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible Vytautas Magnus University researchers may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to them and with a simplified process. Articles may benefit from a 2.5%… Read More
ACS and Universities of The Netherlands renew partnership to advance OA publishing - March 17, 2022
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Universities of The Netherlands (UNL) consortium have renewed their partnership to advance open access publishing. This signals their continued commitment to the principles of open science in a “read and publish” agreement, which is set to… Read More
