Learned Publishing now part of ScienceOpen’s collections - May 26, 2021
Learned Publishing, the journal of the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers, has joined ScienceOpen’s collections so that it can benefit from increased visibility and discovery. The journal publishes peer reviewed original research, updates and informed opinions on all aspects of scholarly… Read More
Durham University joins the Frontiers – JISC national OA deal - May 24, 2021
Durham University has joined the national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers. The University supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, Durham University Library has entered into an institutional agreement with Frontiers. Under… Read More
African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation now be available open access - May 21, 2021
Springer Nature has announced that major reference work African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, the most comprehensive publication on climate change adaptation in Africa ever produced, will now be available open access (OA). As the largest publisher of academic books, Springer Nature has brought together over 100… Read More
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
