Wiley and Carnegie Mellon University in deal to make research more widely accessible - December 17, 2021
Global research and education leader Wiley has announced a three-year open access agreement with Carnegie Mellon University, a renowned research university in the United States. The agreement will enable Carnegie Mellon’s researchers the ability to publish all accepted articles open access in Wiley's… Read More
Wiley unveils new OA journal: Public Health Challenges - December 9, 2021
Wiley, a global leader in research and education, has announced the launch of its newest open access journal, Public Health Challenges. The journal aims to publish original research, reviews, and perspectives that represent the full spectrum of global public health research, policy and practice. The COVID-19 pandemic… Read More
AIP Publishing set to launch two fully OA journals in 2022 - December 8, 2021
AIP Publishing (AIPP) has announced the addition of two new titles to the growing family of Open Access (OA) journals. APL Energy and APL Machine Learning will join a portfolio that also includes APL Materials, APL Photonics, and APL Bioengineering – three high-impact Gold OA journals that… Read More
Springer Nature publishes one million Open Access articles - December 2, 2021
Springer Nature has become the first publisher to immediately publish one million gold open access (OA) primary research and review articles - testament to the company’s long commitment to making research immediately available for all to read, share, use, and reuse to advance discovery. This means that… Read More
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
