Emerald Publishing reports success of three-year open access agreement with SANLiC Consortium - June 6, 2025
Emerald Publishing has reported strong outcomes from its three-year open access agreement with the South African National Library and Information Consortium (SANLiC). Established in 2022, the agreement aimed to enable researchers at participating institutions in South Africa to publish their work fully open access. The Read and… Read More
Big Ten Academic Alliance and Springer Nature finalize first unlimited open access publishing agreement in the Americas - May 30, 2025
The Big Ten Academic Alliance and Springer Nature have announced the establishment of a two-year Open Publishing Agreement, marking the publisher’s first unlimited and uncapped open access publishing arrangement in the Americas. The agreement grants authors at participating Big Ten Academic Alliance institutions the… Read More
Frontiers and the University of Padua establish flat fee open access publishing agreement for 2025 - May 30, 2025
Frontiers has entered into a one-year open access publishing agreement with the University of Padua, supported by its Open Science Committee. The agreement, with the option for renewal, enables affiliated researchers to publish in any of Frontiers’ journals without individual article processing charges (APCs).… Read More
Wiley and JULAC expand partnership, advancing open access publishing in Hong Kong - May 29, 2025
Wiley, a major global publisher and information provider, has announced the expansion of its partnership with the Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) in Hong Kong. The Education University of Hong Kong, the consortium’s eighth member, has now joined JULAC’s Wiley transformational agreement for… Read More
OASPA launches ‘Next 50%’ initiative to advance the future of open access - May 28, 2025
The Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) has launched the ‘Next 50%’ initiative, introducing a foundational primer to prompt renewed dialogue on the future direction of open access publishing. This effort arises at a time when growth in open access outputs appears to be decelerating, prompting the… Read More
UNAM signs open access agreement with Taylor & Francis to expand global reach of research - May 22, 2025
Researchers at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) will gain increased global visibility for their work under a new three-year open access (OA) agreement with academic publisher Taylor & Francis. The arrangement allows UNAM-affiliated authors to publish OA articles in more than 2,400… Read More
Oxford University Press marks 20 years of open access publishing with expanded initiatives across journals and books - May 16, 2025
Oxford University Press (OUP) is marking two decades of open access (OA) publishing in 2025, following the conversion of Nucleic Acids Research to a fully open access model in 2005, alongside the introduction of hybrid OA options. Since then, the publisher has steadily expanded its OA portfolio… Read More
Duke University Press to join MIT Press’s Direct to Open program in 2026 - May 7, 2025
Beginning in 2026, Duke University Press will participate in the MIT Press’s Direct to Open (D2O) initiative, marking the first collaboration of its kind between D2O and another university press. The partnership expands the scope of openly accessible monographs in the humanities and social… Read More
CRKN submits feedback on Tri-Agency draft open access policy - May 6, 2025
The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) has submitted a response to the draft revision of the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications, emphasizing its importance in establishing open access as the default for Canadian-funded research. In preparing its feedback, CRKN consulted its member institutions across the academic… Read More
COS invites developers to enhance Open Science Framework through NSF-backed initiative - May 5, 2025
The Center for Open Science (COS) has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking contributions from open-source developers to advance the functionality and interoperability of the Open Science Framework (OSF). The initiative is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Pathways to… Read More
