Sage and JULAC sign open access agreement to expand publishing opportunities for Hong Kong researchers - March 12, 2026
Sage and the Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) have announced a new open access (OA) publishing agreement intended to expand accessibility of research produced in Hong Kong. The organizations stated that the agreement is designed to increase the visibility and impact of work… Read More
SCOAP3 opens submissions for 2026 open access books program in high-energy Physics - March 12, 2026
SCOAP3 has opened submissions for the 2026 SCOAP3 Books Program, inviting publishers to apply for open access funding for books in high-energy physics. Applications must be submitted by April 15, 2026, with each book entered separately through the program’s application form. Eligible titles must… Read More
Optica Publishing Group implements Subscribe to Open for JOSA B - March 11, 2026
Optica Publishing Group has confirmed that the Subscribe to Open (S2O) pilot for the Journal of the Optical Society of America B (JOSA B) has met participation thresholds, enabling all content published in the journal’s 2026 volume to be made open… Read More
IOP Publishing has expanded article publication charge discounts and waivers for open access journals across 122 economies - March 10, 2026
IOP Publishing (IOPP) has expanded its article publication charge (APC) discount and waiver program to increase participation in open access (OA) publishing among authors globally. The expanded policy applies to IOPP’s proprietary portfolio of open access and hybrid academic journals. Under the updated structure, authors located in… Read More
JMIR Publications and University of Turku sign flat-fee open access publishing agreement - March 10, 2026
JMIR Publications and the University of Turku (UTU) in Finland have established a flat-fee open access publishing agreement that allows affiliated researchers to publish an unlimited number of articles across the publisher’s journals during 2026. The agreement, which runs from January 1 to December… Read More
Wolters Kluwer launches open access pilot for medical research in India - March 5, 2026
Wolters Kluwer Health has introduced the Lippincott Open Access India APC Advantage Pilot as part of its Open Access strategy for medical research in India. The initiative establishes an India-focused Open Access program through the Lippincott publishing portfolio, which is described as globally recognized… Read More
AIP Publishing joins OA Switchboard to support standardized exchange of open access publication metadata - March 4, 2026
AIP Publishing has joined OA Switchboard, a community infrastructure designed to enable standardized exchange of open access publication metadata between publishers, research institutions, and funding organizations. Through participation in the network, AIP Publishing will provide publication metadata through OA Switchboard, including author affiliation, funder… Read More
ALMASI launches Diamond OA policy forums to strengthen global scholarly publishing ecosystem - March 3, 2026
The ALMASI project (Aligning and Mutualizing Nonprofit Open Access Publishing Services Internationally) will convene a coordinated series of regional and cross-regional policy forums in March 2026 aimed at strengthening Diamond open access (OA) and advancing more equitable scholarly publishing systems. Funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe… Read More
Frontiers and Sikt renew national open access agreement for 2026 - February 26, 2026
Frontiers and the Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research (Sikt) have announced the renewal of their national open access agreement for 2026. First established in 2020, the agreement has been renewed to allow 38 Norwegian institutions and research centers to continue… Read More
Four Ohio University Press titles join first 100 open access books in JSTOR’s Path to Open program - February 26, 2026
Four Ohio University Press scholarly monographs are among the first 100 books to become openly available through JSTOR’s Path to Open program, an initiative designed to transform access to high-quality academic work. The titles include Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence;… Read More
