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
The Royal Society sets 75% threshold to ‘flip’ research journals to OA in the next five years - May 17, 2021
The Royal Society, in an exciting new chapter for its scientific publishing, sets out how it will transition its primary research journals to open access and make more of its world-leading research available to all. Following a review by its Council, the Royal Society has committed to… Read More
Wolters Kluwer provides front-line clinicians and medical researchers in India free access to UpToDate coronavirus resources & tools - May 10, 2021
COVID-19 cases are increasing at an alarming rate in India, putting tremendous strain on healthcare practitioners and institutions in the country. Clinicians are required to make evidence-based decisions quickly. For clinicians on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic who are seeking the most current, evidence-based content, all coronavirus topics… Read More
SAGE and Jisc boost transparency and impact of open research via the Jisc Publications Router - May 5, 2021
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing and Jisc have announced the inclusion of Hybrid Gold OA articles in the Jisc Publications Router project, vastly increasing the transparency and discoverability of the UK’s open research. The announcement follows the signing of a three-year ‘Read and Publish’… Read More
Taylor & Francis Group and the Consortium for Swiss Academic Libraries sign three-year ‘read and publish’ deal - May 5, 2021
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group and The Consortium for Swiss Academic Libraries have announced a three-year ‘read and publish’ deal, providing access to journals’ content alongside open access publishing for academics at member institutions. Researchers from the 26 participating Swiss institutions will now be able… Read More
BMJ and IReL extend partnership to provide Irish member institutions and research bodies the opportunity to publish OA in BMJ Journals - May 5, 2021
Global healthcare knowledge provider BMJ and IReL have extended an existing partnership to a ‘Publish and Read’ agreement. The agreement will grant full read access to 28 specialist journals from BMJ‘s journal portfolio for the next three years. Researchers at member institutions will also benefit from BMJ,… Read More
Language Science Press, together with Knowledge Unlatched, renews its open access initiative for three more years - May 3, 2021
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the central platform for Open Access (OA) financing models, has announced that the Language Science Press (LSP) initiative has reached its crowd funding goal and will be renewed for three more years. LSP first launched in 2017 as a three-year pilot and was met… Read More
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. signs new four year transitional open access agreement with swissuniversities - April 30, 2021
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. have announced a new four year read-and-publish agreement with swissuniversities to provide unlimited read access and to accelerate open access publishing among over 40 Swiss higher education and research institutions across Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The read-and-publish agreement allows members and customers… Read More
