The University of Manchester joins the Frontiers – JISC national open access deal - October 28, 2020
The University of Manchester has joined the national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers. The 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. The University of… Read More
Taylor & Francis adds Annals of Medicine to its Open Access journals - October 27, 2020
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has enhanced its ever-growing portfolio of fully Open Access journals with the addition of Annals of Medicine. To improve greater collaboration and reproducibility, now across more than 30 crucial therapy areas, the international general medicine journal… Read More
Bentham Science takes lead on Open Access management through Chronos Hub - October 26, 2020
Bentham Science is taking its Open Access (OA) management to the forefront by becoming the first publisher to fully leverage Chronos Hub. The collaboration serves to improve the authors' experience and guarantee compliance with their funders' and institution's publishing policies, as well as automating the payment… Read More
OCLC provides open access content freely accessible through WorldCat - October 26, 2020
OCLC is supporting libraries, researchers, educators and students with high-quality open access content that is discoverable and freely accessible through WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat.org. OCLC is making open content more discoverable and accessible through expanding collections and… Read More
Microbiology Society and IReL enter open-access agreement for ten Irish higher education institutions - October 23, 2020
Not-for-profit Society publisher, the Microbiology Society, and Ireland’s nationally funded e-learning consortium IReL, have announced an open-access (OA) agreement for ten Irish higher education institutions. This ’Publish and Read’ deal will allow researchers at selected institutions to publish an unlimited number of… Read More
Central European University Press transits to open access monograph programme - October 23, 2020
The Central European University Press (CEUP) is transitioning to an open access (OA) monograph programme through its new library subscription membership initiative, Opening the Future. The Press will provide access to portions of their highly-regarded backlist and use the revenue from members’… Read More
Brill and EIFL sign three-year journals and open access agreement - October 22, 2020
International scholarly publisher Brill has signed a three-year journal agreement with Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL), a not-for-profit organization working with libraries worldwide to enable access to digital information for people in developing and transition countries. The agreement includes discounted access to… Read More
ASBMB’s journals to become open access in January 2021 - October 22, 2020
The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's (ASBMB) three peer-reviewed journals — Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Lipid Research, and Molecular & Cellular Proteomics — will become fully open access in 2021. Scientists publishing in ASBMB journals already had the option for open access,… Read More
Annual Reviews announces final two journals in the 2020 pilot program for Subscribe to Open - October 21, 2020
Nonprofit publisher Annual Reviews has announced that the 2020 volumes of the Annual Review of Environment and Resources and the Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science have been converted from gated to open access. All articles in… Read More
Cambridge University Press seeks Transformative Journal status to transit journals to Open Access - October 19, 2020
Cambridge University Press seeks to request the majority of its journals be given Transformative Journal status by cOAlition S as part of a commitment to transition them to full Open Access (OA). The Press’s commitment to OA stems from its belief that a sustainable transition… Read More
