Konsortium der sächsischen Hochschulbibliotheken signs open access books agreement with Taylor & Francis Group - September 30, 2021
Konsortium der sächsischen Hochschulbibliotheken has signed an open access books agreement with Taylor & Francis Group for twelve months. This OA books agreement will cover a broad range of titles across all subjects covered by Routledge, CRC Press and other imprints in the humanities, social sciences and… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. collaborates with the Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine to launch new OA journal – Integrative Medicine Reports - September 30, 2021
Integrative Medicine Reports, a new peer-reviewed, open access journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., is officially open to receive manuscript submissions. All articles in Integrative Medicine Reports will be published open access under the CC-BY or CC-BY-NC licenses to ensure broad and rapid distribution and visibility… Read More
Iowa State University, Knowledge Unlatched, and JMIR Publications partner to launch OA Fund Management System - September 29, 2021
Iowa State University, Knowledge Unlatched (KU), and JMIR Publications have signed an agreement to pilot the new Oable workflow management tool to monitor funds and administer Iowa State’s payments for eligible publications in the JMIR Publications portfolio. This pilot brings together three forward-thinking organizations… Read More
Karger Publishers expands Open Access journal portfolio; converts journals Pulse and Human to OA for 2022 - September 21, 2021
Scientific and medical publisher Karger Publishers has further expanded its Open Access journal portfolio and Open Science practices, enhancing options for open communications in health sciences. Karger Publishers has “flipped,” or converted, the journals Pulse and Human Heredity from the subscription model to Open Access (OA)… Read More
FinELib Consortium agreements allow for open access to more and more scientific articles - September 16, 2021
Researchers from Finnish universities and research institutions, can now publish their articles open access owing to the FinELib Consortium agreements. A total of 2929 open articles were published in 2020. The number of open access articles increases as more and more researchers utilise the open access benefits… Read More
IntechOpen launches new publishing format: IntechOpen Book Series - September 15, 2021
Open access publisher IntechOpen has announced the launch of its new publishing format: IntechOpen Book Series with the aim to make book publishing more relevant for the digital age and offer innovative Open Access publishing options. Designed to cover fast-moving research fields in rapidly expanding areas,… Read More
Open Pharma collaboration calls for plain language summaries of peer-reviewed medical journal articles - September 13, 2021
Pharmaceutical and biotech companies who form the Open Pharma collaboration, have announced the ever-pressing need for plain language summaries in peer-reviewed medical journal publications. Published in the peer-reviewed journal Current Medical Research & Opinion, Open Pharma’s recommendations come as an aim to make the medical publishing… Read More
cOAlition S statement sets clear direction for academic books to become OA - September 9, 2021
cOAlition S has just issued its statement on Open Access (OA) for academic books. With this statement, cOAlitition S sets a clear direction for academic books to become OA. It recommends that “All academic books based on original research that was directly supported with funding from… Read More
UW Libraries and Cambridge University Press sign OA publishing agreement - September 8, 2021
Research published by corresponding authors based at the University of Wyoming will be made open access at no additional cost, owing to a new partnership between UW Libraries and Cambridge University Press (CUP). Through the read-and-publish agreement, UW authors have the opportunity to… Read More
CRKN to manage central licensing and invoicing for D2O from the MIT Press - September 3, 2021
The MIT Press and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) have announced that CRKN will handle central licensing and invoicing for Direct to Open (D2O) for their member libraries. An innovative, sustainable framework for open access monographs, D2O moves professional and scholarly books from… Read More
