The State of Open Data 2021 finds increasing concerns around lack of credit for data sharing - December 1, 2021
Figshare, Digital Science, and Springer Nature’s annual State of Open Data report finds increasing concern among researchers about misuse of data as well as a lack of credit and acknowledgement for those who do openly share their data. Among the… Read More
Direct to Open enables the MIT Press to publish its full list of spring 2022 monographs and edited collections open access - December 1, 2021
The MIT Press has reached the fifty percent threshold for participation in the Direct to Open (D2O) initiative, an innovative sustainable framework for open access monographs. As a result of the early support of participating institutions, the full list of spring 2022 scholarly monographs… Read More
OpenAthens unveils MyAthens Plus with CORE open access - November 29, 2021
The newly redesigned OpenAthens’ library-owned information portal MyAthens Plus has just announced its integration with CORE, the world’s largest collection of open access full texts, which are used and referenced by people globally, including researchers, libraries, software developers, funders and many… Read More
OA content from Rockefeller University Press now available on the professional network for researchers, ResearchGate - November 24, 2021
ResearchGate and Rockefeller University Press (RUP) has announced the completion of the first phase of a content syndication pilot partnership. ResearchGate users can now find full-text Immediate OA articles and a subset of five years of archival content published in the Journal of Cell… Read More
AIP Publishing and Jisc announce three-year read & publish agreement - November 22, 2021
AIP Publishing, a leading not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has reached a three-year Read and Publish agreement with Jisc, an academic not-for-profit that advances digital technologies in support of education and research in the United Kingdom. The agreement, which covers the period of 2021-2023,… Read More
Altmetric partners with Austria’s National Open Access transformation initiative - November 22, 2021
In an industry first, Altmetric is partnering with Austria’s National Open Access transformation initiative AT2OA2, supplying altmetrics data on over 250,000 research outputs from Austria’s academic institutions. AT2OA2 is the successor project to AT2OA, which ran from 2017-2020 and subsequently secured funding for… Read More
Wiley and Virginia Library Consortium VIVA announce three year open access agreement - November 18, 2021
Global research and education leader Wiley has announced a three year open access agreement with VIVA, a consortium of more than seventy libraries and academic institutions throughout the US state of Virginia, to begin in 2022. The agreement, which expands on a previous pilot between Wiley… Read More
New agreement between DOAJ and OhioLINK paves way for the sustainability of vital open access library infrastructure - November 15, 2021
A new agreement between Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and OhioLINK paves the way for the sustainability of vital open access library infrastructure, key to the future of science and research. DOAJ curates and indexes over 17,000 peer-reviewed, open access journals from around… Read More
Journal of Dairy Science set to transition to open access in January 2022 - November 12, 2021
The American Dairy Science Association® (ADSA) and Elsevier have announced that the Journal of Dairy Science® (JDS) will become a gold open access (OA) journal with the January 2022 issue. This means that authors who publish in JDS can make their work immediately,… Read More
The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center to trial OA publishing agreement with Frontiers - November 11, 2021
The Robert M. Bird Health Sciences Library at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and the University of Oklahoma Libraries have agreed to an institutional membership trial agreement with Frontiers. With this move, OUHSC-affiliated corresponding authors will benefit from a 7.5% membership discount on article processing… Read More
