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
Flagship journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists to transition to Open Access starting in 2022 - June 8, 2021
Starting with Volume 30, Berghahn Journals will be the new publisher of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, the journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. The journal will be leaving Wiley to embark on becoming a fully open access journal as a part of the Berghahn Open Anthro… Read More
Elsevier supports UN’s World Environment Day 2021 with free special issue - June 7, 2021
Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, has launched a free access special issue of curated content focused on environmental issues, in recognition of the UN’s World Environment Day. Consisting of journal articles and book chapters supporting the United Nation’s… Read More
American Physical Society launches new open access journal – PRX Energy - June 7, 2021
The American Physical Society (APS) has announced the launch of its first highly-selective, fully open access energy research journal with an emphasis on outstanding and lasting impact. PRX Energy will open for submissions in late summer 2021 with publication fees waived until 2023. “The physics… Read More
Taylor & Francis Group and CzechELib sign first Read and Publish OA agreement - June 2, 2021
The National Centre for Electronic Information Resources – CzechELib has signed its first Read and Publish agreement with academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group. This deal enables 18 Institutions to publish their work in open access in over 2,000 Taylor & Francis journals, with 50% of… Read More
Québec Research Funds adopt Plan S, joins cOAlition S - June 2, 2021
cOAlition S has announced the Québec Research Funds (QRF) as the latest organisation – and first North American public funder – to join the international consortium of research funding and performing organisations committed to delivering full and immediate Open Access to scientific publications. … Read More
Karger Publishers and the MALMAD Consortium announce Open Access agreement - May 31, 2021
Scientific and medical publisher Karger Publishers has finalized a comprehensive Publish & Read deal with MALMAD, which is now available to all members of the consortium. The contract allows access to all Karger eJournals, including backfiles, as well as providing the option for all affiliated researchers to… Read More
Project MUSE awarded Mellon Foundation grant to study ‘Subscribe to Open’ model for OA journals - May 26, 2021
Project MUSE, the massive online collection of journal and book content based at Johns Hopkins University, has received a $75,000 planning grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Public Knowledge Program to study the innovative business model for open access journal publishing known as… Read More
