EIFL, CUP renews Access & Publishing agreement - November 10, 2021
EIFL has renewed its agreement with Cambridge University Press for access to and publishing in open access in Cambridge University Press journals for a further year, until December 2022. Through the agreement, libraries in 11 EIFL countries can get free access to the… Read More
Oxford University Press expands Oxford Open journal series with the inclusion of Oxford Open Neuroscience - November 5, 2021
Academic publisher Oxford University Press has announced the launch of the sixth title in the Oxford Open series, Oxford Open Neuroscience. Oxford Open Neuroscience will publish rigorous and broad interest papers and research into the nervous system in both health and disease, encompassing basic, translational, and… Read More
Wiley and CAUL announce three year transformational OA agreement - November 3, 2021
Global research and education leader Wiley has announced a new three year agreement with CAUL, the leadership organization for university libraries in Australia and New Zealand, to begin in 2022. The largest transformational agreement to date in Australia and New Zealand, it highlights Wiley’s… Read More
Frontiers and University of Southern Denmark form OA publishing agreement - November 3, 2021
The University of Southern Denmark (SDU) has established an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. The University Library of University of Southern Denmark (SDU) supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, SDU has entered an… Read More
Umass Amherst Libraries in deal with PLOS to cover OA publication fees - November 1, 2021
UMass Amherst Libraries, through its membership with the NERL Consortium of academic and research libraries, has signed a three-year agreement with the non-profit, open access publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS), providing UMass Amherst researchers with no or reduced fee publication… Read More
Frontiers and the Akershus University Hospital announce open access publishing agreement - October 29, 2021
The Akershus University Hospital (Akershus Universitetssykehus) is supporting their authors in publishing open access. As part of this support, eligible authors from Akershus University Hospital will benefit from a 10% membership discount under the terms of the UNIT Open Access Publishing Framework Agreement. Eligible authors are… Read More
The Company of Biologists announces new three-year Read & Publish OA agreement with Jisc - October 22, 2021
The Company of Biologists has a new three-year agreement from January 2022 – December 2024 with Jisc. The move follows the success of its first two-year Read & Publish agreement with Jisc. Researchers at participating institutions will be able to publish an uncapped… Read More
AACR issues call for papers for new OA journal, Cancer Research Communications - October 21, 2021
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has announced the opening of the submission site for its new open access journal, Cancer Research Communications, signalling the official call for papers. This new journal is the 10th in the AACR’s portfolio of scientific publications, adding an open access… Read More
Open Access transformation for Astronomy & Astrophysics - October 20, 2021
The Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) Board of Directors has announced that their journal will move to a Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) model. If libraries renew their subscriptions, A&A will be published in full open access in 2022. Since its launch in 1969, A&A has been publishing pioneering, peer reviewed scientific content. … Read More
ResearchGate and Hindawi partner to extend reach of open access research - October 18, 2021
ResearchGate and Hindawi Limited have announced a new agreement that will make all articles published in Hindawi’s open access journals available directly on the ResearchGate platform upon publication. The partnership, which launched on October 14, 2021, will also see the published version of… Read More