Karger Publishers partners with ChronosHub to further support the Open Science movement - August 18, 2021
Karger Publishers and ChronosHub have launched a partnership to further support the Open Science movement. The partnership will play a central role in supporting the transition to Open Science for Karger Publishers’ authors and institutional customers through a simplified user experience. It will ensure that unnecessary… Read More
SCOSS Campaign: DOAB/OAPEN reaches key funding milestone - August 18, 2021
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) and OAPEN, jointly part of SCOSS’s second funding cycle, has met a significant milestone by reaching its three-year funding goal of 505,000 Euros in about 18 months, despite the COVID-19 challenge. A global funding community of 89… Read More
IntechOpen: one of the most significant contributors to OA book growth in DOAB - August 17, 2021
In a recent report developed by OASPA and Delta Think, a strategic consulting and advisory firm, IntechOpen was identified as one of the most significant contributors to the growth of Open Access books indexed in DOAB. Using data from OASPA,… Read More
UKRI Open Access Policy: ALPSP Copyright Committee responds - August 13, 2021
As an international trade association, ALPSP supports and represents not-for-profit organizations that publish scholarly and professional content, as well as those that work with them. ALPSP members are very supportive of open access and have already taken and continue to take significant steps to ensure that as… Read More
The Company of Biologists announces new Read & Publish agreement with the Spanish National Research Council - August 13, 2021
The Company of Biologists has announced a new Read & Publish agreement with the Spanish National Research Council. This cost-neutral agreement, which runs until December 31, 2023, enables researchers at more than 100 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) institutes to publish an uncapped number of… Read More
Taylor & Francis responds to the UKRI Policy announcement - August 9, 2021
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis is supportive of the goals of the UKRI Open Access Policy to achieve full and immediate Open Access. Over the past decade the publisher has invested heavily in OA tools and services, including OA journals, F1000 and transformative agreements which have helped… Read More
UKRI announces new OA Policy - August 6, 2021
UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) new policy will increase opportunity for the findings of publicly funded research to be accessed, shared and reused. Following extensive consultation with the sector, UKRI has published a single Open Access Policy for research publications that acknowledge funding from its councils. … Read More
The National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research partners with F1000 to launch OA publishing hub in India - August 5, 2021
The National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER-Kolkata) launched its own open access publishing hub with F1000, Taylor & Francis Group’s open research publishing arm. This will be hosted on the F1000Research site, adopting its pioneering approach to open science… Read More
Deal between Frontiers and Taiwan’s NHRI to boost Open Access in Asia - August 5, 2021
One of Taiwan’s leading medical research institutions, the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), and open-access publisher Frontiers have announced a publishing deal effective as of August 2021. Established in 1995, NHRI is one of Asia’s leading medical research and healthcare institutions. It focuses on… Read More
AUBO (Beijing) Intelligent Science and Technology Co. Ltd and F1000 unveil first open research publishing platform dedicated to cobots - August 4, 2021
The world’s first open research publishing platform dedicated to the science and technology of collaborative robots is now open for submissions. This new publishing platform, known as Cobot, is a partnership between AUBO (Beijing) Intelligent Science and Technology Co. Ltd and F1000, the… Read More
