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
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
