Wiley and Virginia Library Consortium VIVA announce three year open access agreement - November 18, 2021
Global research and education leader Wiley has announced a three year open access agreement with VIVA, a consortium of more than seventy libraries and academic institutions throughout the US state of Virginia, to begin in 2022. The agreement, which expands on a previous pilot between Wiley… Read More
New agreement between DOAJ and OhioLINK paves way for the sustainability of vital open access library infrastructure - November 15, 2021
A new agreement between Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and OhioLINK paves the way for the sustainability of vital open access library infrastructure, key to the future of science and research. DOAJ curates and indexes over 17,000 peer-reviewed, open access journals from around… Read More
Journal of Dairy Science set to transition to open access in January 2022 - November 12, 2021
The American Dairy Science Association® (ADSA) and Elsevier have announced that the Journal of Dairy Science® (JDS) will become a gold open access (OA) journal with the January 2022 issue. This means that authors who publish in JDS can make their work immediately,… Read More
The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center to trial OA publishing agreement with Frontiers - November 11, 2021
The Robert M. Bird Health Sciences Library at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and the University of Oklahoma Libraries have agreed to an institutional membership trial agreement with Frontiers. With this move, OUHSC-affiliated corresponding authors will benefit from a 7.5% membership discount on article processing… Read More
EIFL, CUP renews Access & Publishing agreement - November 10, 2021
EIFL has renewed its agreement with Cambridge University Press for access to and publishing in open access in Cambridge University Press journals for a further year, until December 2022. Through the agreement, libraries in 11 EIFL countries can get free access to the… Read More
Oxford University Press expands Oxford Open journal series with the inclusion of Oxford Open Neuroscience - November 5, 2021
Academic publisher Oxford University Press has announced the launch of the sixth title in the Oxford Open series, Oxford Open Neuroscience. Oxford Open Neuroscience will publish rigorous and broad interest papers and research into the nervous system in both health and disease, encompassing basic, translational, and… Read More
Wiley and CAUL announce three year transformational OA agreement - November 3, 2021
Global research and education leader Wiley has announced a new three year agreement with CAUL, the leadership organization for university libraries in Australia and New Zealand, to begin in 2022. The largest transformational agreement to date in Australia and New Zealand, it highlights Wiley’s… Read More
Frontiers and University of Southern Denmark form OA publishing agreement - November 3, 2021
The University of Southern Denmark (SDU) has established an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. The University Library of University of Southern Denmark (SDU) supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, SDU has entered an… Read More
Umass Amherst Libraries in deal with PLOS to cover OA publication fees - November 1, 2021
UMass Amherst Libraries, through its membership with the NERL Consortium of academic and research libraries, has signed a three-year agreement with the non-profit, open access publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS), providing UMass Amherst researchers with no or reduced fee publication… Read More
Frontiers and the Akershus University Hospital announce open access publishing agreement - October 29, 2021
The Akershus University Hospital (Akershus Universitetssykehus) is supporting their authors in publishing open access. As part of this support, eligible authors from Akershus University Hospital will benefit from a 10% membership discount under the terms of the UNIT Open Access Publishing Framework Agreement. Eligible authors are… Read More