Taylor & Francis Group and CzechELib sign first Read and Publish OA agreement - June 2, 2021
The National Centre for Electronic Information Resources – CzechELib has signed its first Read and Publish agreement with academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group. This deal enables 18 Institutions to publish their work in open access in over 2,000 Taylor & Francis journals, with 50% of… Read More
Québec Research Funds adopt Plan S, joins cOAlition S - June 2, 2021
cOAlition S has announced the Québec Research Funds (QRF) as the latest organisation – and first North American public funder – to join the international consortium of research funding and performing organisations committed to delivering full and immediate Open Access to scientific publications. … Read More
Karger Publishers and the MALMAD Consortium announce Open Access agreement - May 31, 2021
Scientific and medical publisher Karger Publishers has finalized a comprehensive Publish & Read deal with MALMAD, which is now available to all members of the consortium. The contract allows access to all Karger eJournals, including backfiles, as well as providing the option for all affiliated researchers to… Read More
Project MUSE awarded Mellon Foundation grant to study ‘Subscribe to Open’ model for OA journals - May 26, 2021
Project MUSE, the massive online collection of journal and book content based at Johns Hopkins University, has received a $75,000 planning grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Public Knowledge Program to study the innovative business model for open access journal publishing known as… Read More
Learned Publishing now part of ScienceOpen’s collections - May 26, 2021
Learned Publishing, the journal of the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers, has joined ScienceOpen’s collections so that it can benefit from increased visibility and discovery. The journal publishes peer reviewed original research, updates and informed opinions on all aspects of scholarly… Read More
Durham University joins the Frontiers – JISC national OA deal - May 24, 2021
Durham University has joined the national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers. The University supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, Durham University Library has entered into an institutional agreement with Frontiers. Under… Read More
African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation now be available open access - May 21, 2021
Springer Nature has announced that major reference work African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, the most comprehensive publication on climate change adaptation in Africa ever produced, will now be available open access (OA). As the largest publisher of academic books, Springer Nature has brought together over 100… Read More
ACM joins Initiative for Open Abstracts - May 21, 2021
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), has joined the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA), a collaboration between publishers, infrastructure organizations, librarians, and researchers to promote the open availability of abstracts. By joining I4OA, ACM commits to making abstracts of articles published by ACM… Read More
Five mathematics journals published by EDP Sciences and the SMAI transition to open access - May 20, 2021
Five mathematics journals published by EDP Sciences and the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI) will join Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena (MMNP) in open access under the Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) model in 2021. The transition will further bolster S2O, a transformative model first introduced by Annual… Read More
Queen Mary University of London joins Frontiers – JISC national OA deal - May 19, 2021
Queen Mary University of London 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. … Read More
