Journal of Refractive Surgery Case Reports unveils inaugural issue - June 25, 2021
STM publisher SLACK Incorporated has announced the official launch of the new digital, open-access journal, Journal of Refractive Surgery Case Reports (JRS Case Reports). Edited by Dr. J. Bradley Randleman, the quarterly, peer-reviewed Journal will include high-quality case reports that focus on research as related to the… Read More
PeerJ announces Free July on all five PeerJ Chemistry journals - June 25, 2021
PeerJ has announced Free July on PeerJ Chemistry journals. In order to give the chemistry community an opportunity to experience its industry-leading customer service and submission system, PeerJ is making all five Chemistry journals free in July 2021. Authors can submit to any PeerJ Chemistry journal… Read More
NERL and CRL join growing movement to support Directory of Open Access Journals in the US - June 24, 2021
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) has announced a new agreement with the NorthEast Research Libraries Consortium (NERL) and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) in the United States. The arrangement will allow for greater support to DOAJ from the… Read More
IOP Publishing and the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory launch new OA journal covering basic and applied materials science and technology - June 23, 2021
IOP Publishing and the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory (SLAB), in affiliation with the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, are launching a new open access journal - Materials Futures -covering all areas of basic and applied materials science and technology. Published as a quarterly journal,… Read More
The SNSF’s new pilot project enables researchers to publish their OA articles via the ChronosHub platform - June 21, 2021
The Swiss National Scientific Foundation (SNSF) is launching a new pilot project. Researchers will now be able to publish their open access articles via the ChronosHub platform, thereby saving a lot of time and effort. Research findings funded with public money belong to the public. For… Read More
The Microbiology Society announces three new initiatives that increase transparency and openness - June 18, 2021
The Microbiology Society is pleased to announce three new initiatives that provide article-level metrics of all Open Access (OA) articles published by the Society’s six journals. Using these routes, the Society is rising to the challenge of providing the data to stakeholders, when, where and however they… Read More
SLAS partners with Elsevier to transition two of its journals to Gold Open Access publishing model, effective January 2022 - June 18, 2021
The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) has announced the transition of SLAS Discovery and SLAS Technology to a Gold Open Access publishing model as of January 1, 2022. SLAS will partner with Elsevier, which will make both journals available through its online… Read More
Luxembourg’s national library and Frontiers announce Open Access publishing deal - June 15, 2021
The Bibliothèque Nationale du Luxembourg, the country’s national library, and open access publisher Frontiers have reached a three-year publishing deal that will run until February 2024. Managed by the Consortium Luxembourg national library service, participating organizations include: the Bibliothèque Nationale du Luxembourg, the Luxembourg Institute of… Read More
EDP Sciences and Knowledge Unlatched announce a Subscribe-to-Open collaboration - June 10, 2021
EDP Sciences recently announced that its complete mathematics journal portfolio of six subscription titles—including the flagship journal "ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical analysis"— transitioned to Open Access (OA) under the innovative Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) model. In partnership with Knowledge Unlatched (KU), EDP Sciences will be… Read More
UC Berkeley joins trial of 3 Year Fixed Term PeerJ Memberships to support OA publishing - June 10, 2021
University of California, Berkeley is taking part in the trial of 3 Year Fixed Term PeerJ Memberships, joining University of Ottawa. UC Berkeley have been long-term supporters of PeerJ, becoming one of the first universities to create a PeerJ institutional account back in… Read More
