EUA signs Action Plan for Diamond OA - March 10, 2022
EUA has signed up to the “Action Plan for Diamond Open Access” which aims to promote a sustainable, community-driven Diamond Open Access (OA) scholarly communication ecosystem. Published on March 2, 2022, the document is an initiative of Science Europe, cOAlition S,… Read More
Wiley and OhioLINK in deal to publish more OA Research - March 10, 2022
Global research and education leader Wiley has announced a new two-year agreement with OhioLINK, a statewide academic library consortium for the State of Ohio in the U.S. This agreement builds on an open-access pilot both institutions completed in 2020 and furthers their joint commitment… Read More
Library community support for Subscribe-to-Open ensures open access for Mathematics titles in 2022 - March 9, 2022
EDP Sciences and the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI) have announced that six mathematics journals will continue to publish in open access under the Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) model in 2022. This demonstrates the support from the library community for this equitable open access model which enables… Read More
Elsevier contributes Scopus data to Open Access Monitor Germany - March 3, 2022
Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, and Forschungszentrum Jülich have announced that they will be supporting the Open Access Monitor (OA Monitor), Germany, by making metadata from Scopus, the abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, available to the database… Read More
The National Academy of Sciences publishes inaugural issue of new open-access journal, PNAS Nexus - March 3, 2022
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has announced the publication of the inaugural issue of PNAS Nexus, a selective, open-access journal with a focus on multi-, trans-, and inter-disciplinary work across the biological, physical, and social sciences, and mathematics, particularly encompassing engineering and health sciences. The journal… Read More
cOAlition S calls on publishers to make their policies and contracts more transparent - March 2, 2022
Several publishers are making the move to increase Open Access (OA) for research publications. However, some publishers’ practices still cause difficulties for authors who wish to exercise their right to make their Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) open access immediately on publication using the Plan S Rights Retention… Read More
Knowledge Unlatched and Laudato Si’ Research Institute make 11 Books on Integral Ecology Open Access - March 2, 2022
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) and the Laudato Si' Research Institute at Campion Hall, Oxford (LSRI) have joined forces to make 11 titles from the field of Integral Ecology Open Access (OA). This collection of e-books, the Laudato Si’ Integral Ecology Collection, is made possible as a result of… Read More
PLOS and the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries announce new publishing agreement - February 24, 2022
The Public Library of Science (PLOS) and the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries (CSAL) have announced a three-year Open Access agreement that allows researchers to publish in PLOS’ suite of journals without incurring Article Processing Charges (APCs). This partnership brings together two organizations that… Read More
Italian National Research Council and Frontiers sign OA publishing deal - February 24, 2022
The Italian National Research Council, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) has signed an Open Access publishing consortium deal with Gold OA publisher Frontiers. The agreement comes into effect one year after the signature of a similar deal with the Italian consortium of Biomedical Research… Read More
Heriot-Watt University joins the Frontiers – JISC national open access deal - February 21, 2022
The Heriot-Watt University has joined the 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, who publish 7% of the world’s research. Heriot-Watt University… Read More
