Wiley and Projekt DEAL extend OA agreement into fourth year - February 2, 2022
Wiley, a global leader in research and education, has announced the extension of its landmark open access partnership with Projekt DEAL, a countrywide consortium representative of more than 900 academic institutions in Germany. The landmark agreement, which began in 2019, provides participating Projekt DEAL institutions with… Read More
PLOS and IReL announce three-year OA publishing agreement - February 2, 2022
PLOS, the non-profit open access publisher, and IReL, the Irish library consortium, has announced a new three-year open access agreement, which allows researchers at eight participating institutions to publish open access articles in PLOS journals. This agreement is IReL’s twentieth open access agreement and its first… Read More
Wiley and SCELC announce new pilot agreement to deliver more OA articles - January 31, 2022
Global research and education leader Wiley has announced a new pilot agreement with the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) to accelerate the publication of open access articles across 61 SCELC members and affiliates. The agreement supports researchers at participating institutions – which span the U.S.… Read More
IOP Publishing unveils portfolio-wide transparent peer review on its OA journals - January 31, 2022
IOP Publishing (IOPP) is moving all its open access (OA) journals to transparent peer review, making it the first physics publisher to adopt the approach portfolio-wide. Transparent peer review involves publication of the complete peer review process, from initial review to a final decision. This means that… Read More
PLOS responds to the Wissenschaftsrat (German Science Council) statement on Open Access - January 28, 2022
PLOS, a non-profit open-access STM publisher, has welcomed the January 24, 2022, statement from the German Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat) advocating that Open Access (OA), via a CC BY license, should become the default for scientific publications. The statement observes that a move to Open Access entails… Read More
Wiley announces new three-year deal with the Slovenian Academic Consortium to accelerate open access research - January 27, 2022
Global research and education leader Wiley has announced a new three-year agreement with the Slovenian Academic Consortium (CTK consortium) to accelerate open access research. The agreement allows 10 member institutions across Slovenia to access all of Wiley’s hybrid and subscription journals and grants researchers the ability… Read More
IOP Publishing and the TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology announce three-year unlimited OA publishing agreement - January 27, 2022
Not-for-profit society publisher IOP Publishing (IOPP) and TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology have established a consortium agreement which enables researchers at participating German institutions to publish unlimited articles on an open access (OA) basis in 56 hybrid and 15 fully open access (OA)… Read More
Advanced Photonics Nexus journal set to debut in 2022 - January 20, 2022
Advanced Photonics Nexus, an Open Access journal co-published by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and Chinese Laser Press (CLP), anticipates publication of its first issue in the second half of 2022. Advanced Photonics Nexus, which will be accessible online in… Read More
The Company of Biologists and the Council of Australian University Librarians announce new Read & Publish OA agreement - January 19, 2022
The Company of Biologists has announced a new three-year Read & Publish Open Access agreement with the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL). The agreement commenced on January 1, 2022 and CAUL-member institutions in Australia and New Zealand can sign up… Read More
Open access journal renamed Drone Systems and Applications - January 17, 2022
Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) has announced that, as of January 1, 2022, the Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems is now called Drone Systems and Applications. The journal was renamed to eliminate the use of a term that is neither gender-neutral nor gender-inclusive. Changing the journal’s title… Read More
