ACS partners with Jisc to enable open access publishing for researchers across the UK - April 29, 2022
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced a landmark transitional agreement with the Jisc consortium that will serve researchers in the U.K. across all fields of chemistry. The three-year agreement, which will last through 2024, provides the ability for all scientific articles published… Read More
Thieme and Dutch Library Consortium UKB sign OA Read-and-Publish agreement - April 28, 2022
Thieme and the Dutch Library Consortium UKB have concluded a Read-and-Publish agreement, with the Dutch cooperative association for educational and research institutions SURF serving as an intermediary party. The agreement includes eleven leading Dutch universities and provides members of the participating institutions with unlimited read access to… Read More
ACS Publications’ entire portfolio of hybrid journals set to become transformative journals - April 27, 2022
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has committed its full portfolio of more than 60 hybrid journals, which offer both open access and subscription-only content, to become Plan S-aligned transformative journals. This development represents a major step in ACS’ long-standing commitment to open science,… Read More
GOBI® now offers the open research library e-book platform from Knowledge Unlatched - April 22, 2022
GOBI® Library Solutions from EBSCO (GOBI Library Solutions) now supports the Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Open Access (OA) e-books funding model, providing the opportunity for academic libraries to support OA funding initiatives within their GOBI workflow. The addition of the Knowledge Unlatched Open Research Library E-Book… Read More
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
