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
Wiley and the Big Ten Academic Alliance in deal to make more peer-reviewed research available - February 16, 2022
Global research and education leader Wiley, together with the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), have reached an agreement for a one-year contract extension with an open access option, as a pilot in collective action toward the Big Collection. The Big Ten Academic Alliance is a premier higher… Read More
AIP Publishing and the Institute of Science and Technology Austria sign three-year Read & Publish agreement - February 16, 2022
AIP Publishing, a leading not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has signed a three-year Read & Publish agreement with the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). The agreement covers the period January 2022 – December 2024. Under the agreement, researchers affiliated with ISTA will… Read More
AIP Publishing and the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries announce Read & Publish agreement - February 11, 2022
AIP Publishing, a leading not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has announced a three-year Read and Publish agreement with the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries (CSAL). Commencing in January 2022, the agreement runs until the end of 2024 and includes access to… Read More
Wiley and four Japanese institutions sign MoU for a transformational OA agreement - February 9, 2022
Global research and education leader Wiley has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on open access publishing with the library directors of Tohoku University, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, and Tokyo University of Science. This MoU is… Read More
AIP Publishing and the University of Innsbruck sign three-year Read & Publish agreement - February 7, 2022
AIP Publishing, a not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has signed a Read and Publish agreement with the University of Innsbruck, Austria. The agreement covers three years beginning January 2022. Researchers at the University of Innsbruck can now publish open access without incurring… Read More
EMS Press successfully flips 17 journals to OA for 2022 with its Subscribe To Open programme - February 7, 2022
EMS Press, the publishing house of the European Mathematical Society, has again achieved complete success with its Subscribe To Open (S2O) programme. The collection, containing 17 journals – expanded from 10 in 2021 – will become fully open access for 2022. The additional 7 titles include the… Read More
NERL and Elsevier announce new three-year agreement and develop OA pilot - February 4, 2022
NERL, a consortium representing some of America’s leading research institutions, and Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, have established a new three-year agreement. The deal provides 13 of the NERL member institutions with ScienceDirect access and pilots retroactive open access… Read More
