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
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
