Springer Nature and the University of California in deal to provide UC authors the option to publish their research OA in Nature titles - July 27, 2022
Building on the success of their 2020 landmark agreement, Springer Nature and the University of California (UC) have announced that UC authors will now have the option to publish their research open access (OA) in the prestigious Nature titles. Through an extension of the… Read More
PLOS and OA Switchboard announce partnership - July 25, 2022
The Public Library of Science (PLOS) and the OA Switchboard have announced a partnership that will enable PLOS to better manage its Open Access publishing agreements with institutions, while also providing greater transparency and metadata to stakeholders, including consortia, libraries and funders. PLOS… Read More
IOP Publishing offers authors discounted OA publishing across its journals - July 25, 2022
Researchers from countries with lower-middle income economies, as categorised by the World Bank, can now choose open access (OA) publishing in any of IOP Publishing’s (IOPP) journals for a flat charge of £500. The policy builds on IOPP’s existing approach that enables researchers from countries with low-income… Read More
Journal of Food Protection to be published fully open access from January 2023 - July 22, 2022
The International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) has announced that the Journal of Food Protection will be published as a fully open access publication beginning in January 2023. The journal will be published as an open access journal with Netherlands-based academic publishing company, Elsevier.… Read More
EIFL’s renewal agreement with the MSP provides free access to 17 journals in 29 countries - July 21, 2022
EIFL has signed a renewal agreement with Mathematical Science Publishers (MSP) journals. This agreement provides for free access to 17 peer-reviewed journals in 29 countries. MSP is a scholar-led non-profit publisher, with a mission to serve the maths community through high-quality publishing. Journals… Read More
Bioscientifica launches new OA journal – Redox Experimental Biology - July 20, 2022
Redox Experimental Medicine is a new, fully open-access, peer-reviewed journal publishing research aimed at advancing understanding of the effects that redox processes have on human health and disease. Aberrations in redox processes can have a profound impact on our normal physiology, with implications for many diseases.… Read More
Radioprotection to adopt S2O and OA model from 2023 - July 20, 2022
The journal Radioprotection has become the eighth journal published by EDP Sciences to move to Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) and will also be online-only from 2023. Under the terms of this transformative model, Radioprotection will be open access in 2023 if it receives the required level of support… Read More
Code Ocean’s Open Science Library allows free, turnkey replication of computational experiments - July 20, 2022
Code Ocean, the developer of a novel computational research laboratory in the cloud, has announced the Open Science Library (OSL), a free research site for publishing and replicating computational research from some of the world’s leading journals and by independent researchers. The OSL contains… Read More
University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover and Frontiers enter into an open access publishing agreement - July 15, 2022
University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover (TiHo) has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. The TiHo supports its researchers in making their research free and openly available. The new agreement with Frontiers will encourage TiHo researchers to publish open access at reduced costs… Read More
EDP Sciences renews OA agreement in France - July 13, 2022
The partners of the ’Accord national pour l’accès ouvert en France’ (National Open Access Agreement in France) have renewed the agreement for a further five-year term until 31 December 2026. The Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research - MESR), the… Read More