NIHR releases guidance and resources to facilitate open access policy implementation - March 28, 2022
The National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) has published a suite of guidance and resources to support stakeholders in the implementation of the revised NIHR open access publication policy, which applies to publications submitted from June 1, 2022. Following the announcement of the… Read More
Subscribe-to-Open 2022 Transparency Report for maths journals provides new metrics - March 28, 2022
EDP Sciences has released the Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) 2022 Transparency Report. The annual report details costs and prices related to the EDP Sciences-SMAI Subscribe-to-Open program for the applied mathematics journals they co-publish. As advocates of open science, both EDP Sciences and… Read More
Switzerland and Frontiers reach national Open Access agreement - March 24, 2022
The Swiss research community has announced a new national publishing agreement with the open-access publisher Frontiers. Starting on March 1, 2022, this one-year pilot supports authors from 18 institutions, including hospitals, who will now be able to publish in Frontiers’ broad portfolio of 146 journals, hosted… Read More
Elsevier and Jisc in deal to support the transition to Open Access for UK Research - March 23, 2022
Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, has signed a transitional agreement with Jisc – the negotiating body representing UK academic research institutions – to provide access to global research for UK readers, and to provide immediate open access to UK… Read More
Frontiers and Vytautas Magnus University form publishing agreement - March 21, 2022
Vytautas Magnus University has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible Vytautas Magnus University researchers may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to them and with a simplified process. Articles may benefit from a 2.5%… Read More
ACS and Universities of The Netherlands renew partnership to advance OA publishing - March 17, 2022
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Universities of The Netherlands (UNL) consortium have renewed their partnership to advance open access publishing. This signals their continued commitment to the principles of open science in a “read and publish” agreement, which is set to… Read More
IntechOpen and Knowledge Unlatched in deal to support researchers working in engineering sciences - March 17, 2022
IntechOpen and Knowledge Unlatched have formed a partnership to support researchers working in engineering sciences by enabling an easier approach to publishing Open Access content. Using the Knowledge Unlatched crowdfunding model to raise the publishing costs through libraries around the world, Open Access Publishing… Read More
Sharing publication metadata to streamline open access reporting - March 16, 2022
Open access publisher Hindawi has announced reporting their publication metadata via OA Switchboard. The OA Switchboard has developed quickly over the last couple of years and is starting to demonstrate the real value it can provide to the community, and Hindawi has now successfully integrated with… Read More
AIP Publishing announces new Read & Publish agreement with UiT The Arctic University of the Arctic, Norway - March 16, 2022
AIP Publishing, a not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has announced a new Read & Publish agreement with UiT The Arctic University of the Arctic, Norway (UiT) and an extension of the Bibsam Consortium Read & Publish agreement in Sweden.… Read More
University of California partners with Wiley to publish more OA research - March 14, 2022
The University of California and Wiley have announced an innovative one-year open access agreement pilot for 2022 that will make more of the University’s research available to read and share worldwide. The agreement brings together UC, which generates nearly 10 percent of all U.S. research output,… Read More
