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
Methods in Ecology and Evolution set to become a fully open access journal - June 9, 2022
The British Ecological Society has announced that one of its youngest journals, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, will become a fully open access publication from January 2023. Methods in Ecology and Evolution (MEE) publishes methodological papers in all areas of ecology and evolutionary biology,… Read More
Nature Masterclasses online training made free to access for researchers in lower-income nations - June 8, 2022
Springer Nature has made Nature Masterclasses on-demand online training content free to access for researchers in lower-income countries through Research4Life. Nature Masterclasses offers highly targeted courses designed to enhance the skills and boost the confidence of early career researchers, with over… Read More
JMIRx Med becomes first preprint overlay journal to be accepted in the DOAJ - June 8, 2022
JMIR Publications has announced that JMIRx Med has been accepted and indexed—as the first preprint overlay journal—in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). DOAJ applies strict criteria to review and index open access journals, which include licensing and copyright criteria,… Read More
The University of Lincoln joins Frontiers – JISC national open access deal - June 6, 2022
The University of Lincoln has joined the UK 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. The University of Lincoln supports its researchers… Read More
Elsevier and Oable form pilot to streamline librarian approval workflow for OA publishing - June 2, 2022
Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, is establishing a pilot with Oable, the innovative open access (OA) workflow management solution developed by Knowledge Unlatched, to simplify the librarian approval workflow for open access publishing. Oable supports libraries in managing their OA activities across… Read More
Springer Nature’s TJs publish 40% more gold OA research articles in 2021 than in 2020 - June 1, 2022
Springer Nature’s Transformative Journals (TJs) published 40% more gold open access (OA) research articles in 2021 than in 2020. Data released show that 730 Springer Nature journals also met cOAlition S’s challenging TJ requirement targets, meaning that more Springer Nature titles achieved the required metrics than those… Read More
Wolters Kluwer and ACSM expand publishing partnership; set to launch new OA journal – Exercise, Sport, and Movement - June 1, 2022
Wolters Kluwer, a leading global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, is further expanding its publishing partnership with the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), with the addition of Exercise, Sport, and Movement (ESM). Exercise, Sport, and Movement will be an… Read More
