The International Institute of Academic Research & Publications in India partners with F1000 to launch OA publishing hub - July 22, 2021
The International Institute of Academic Research & Publications (IIARP) in India has partnered with F1000, Taylor & Francis Group’s open research publishing arm, to create a dedicated open research publishing hub for IIARP researchers. The International Institute of Academic Research & Publications (IIARP)… Read More
The Big Ten Academic Alliance joins Direct to Open from the MIT Press - July 21, 2021
The MIT Press and the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) have announced a three-year collective action agreement that provides Direct to Open (D2O) access for all fifteen member libraries. An innovative, sustainable framework for open access monographs, D2O moves professional and scholarly books from… Read More
COAR announces strategy to modernize the global repository network - July 19, 2021
The trend towards open science / open scholarship is strengthening and expanding. The COVID-19 pandemic has made open scholarship a top priority for governments and the research community around the world and there is a growing recognition about the need for greater equity in scholarly communications, as underscored in the… Read More
Karger Publishers’ open access deal with German academic institutions for the years 2021-2023 - July 13, 2021
Scientific and medical publisher Karger Publishers has offered German academic institutions a Publish and Read agreement covering the years 2021-2023. The Open Access (OA) agreement was negotiated, coordinated, and signed by the Bavarian State Library (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB) on behalf of higher education and research institutions across… Read More
Emerald Publishing and the China Centre for Internet Economy Research collaborate to launch new OA journal - July 13, 2021
Academic publisher Emerald Publishing has collaborated with the China Centre for Internet Economy (CCIE) Research to launch the Journal of Internet and Digital Economics. The journal is dedicated to become the first comprehensive open-access economic journal focusing on the basic theories, empirical applications, and policy implications… Read More
DataSalon announce support for Read & Publish reporting in both their PaperStack and MasterVision services - July 13, 2021
DataSalon has announced that both of their cloud-based systems, PaperStack and MasterVision, can now offer support for the reporting requirements created by Read & Publish deals – helping publishers in the move towards Open Access. Both PaperStack and MasterVision can produce the key reports required –… Read More
Journal of Veterinary Medical Education adopts hybrid OA model, effective July 1 - July 8, 2021
The American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) and the University of Toronto Press have announced that beginning in July 2021, the Journal of Veterinary Medical Education (JVME) has adopted a hybrid print and online publishing model which incorporates open access of all published content. Effective July… Read More
Jisc and the National Academy of Sciences announce two-year transformational OA pilot agreement - July 7, 2021
Jisc and the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (NAS) have announced a two-year transformational open access (OA) pilot agreement. The ‘Publish and Read’ deal will allow UK corresponding authors at participating institutions to publish OA articles in the… Read More
IOP Publishing to offer APC-free OA publishing in all its journals for researchers from low-income nations - July 6, 2021
Researchers from low-income countries can now publish open access (OA) for free in any IOP Publishing (IOPP) fully OA or hybrid OA journal. Article publication charges (APCs) will be automatically waived for researchers from countries defined as low-income by the World Bank, with no need for the… Read More
Cambridge University Press announces new Open Access pilot scheme – Flip it Open - June 30, 2021
A new Open Access pilot scheme from Cambridge University Press will turn conventional publishing models on their head by making academic monographs that sell the most copies available online for free. The initiative, called Flip it Open, will see selected books published and sold as normal, primarily… Read More
