Integration of the Ex Libris Esploro solution with Knowledge Unlatched Oable to help institutions manage APCs and OA publishing - February 18, 2021
Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has announced a partnership with open access (OA) service provider Knowledge Unlatched. Under the deal, the Ex Libris Esploro™ research information management solution will be integrated with the Knowledge Unlatched Oable workflow management solution. This integration will provide research institutions with full… Read More
Hindawi and Maverick announce open access publishing services collaboration - February 15, 2021
Maverick Publishing Specialists and Hindawi Limited have recently entered into an open access publishing collaboration whereby a dedicated team of Maverick specialists and Hindawi's Publishing Partnerships business division will work collaboratively to broaden awareness of Hindawi's range of publishing services amongst journal publishers. … Read More
South African Government places DOAJ on list of accredited journals - February 15, 2021
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) has announced its inclusion in the recognised list of journals, lists and indexes accepted by the South African Department of Higher Education and Training. The move represents the first time that an open access listing has been recommended to South African… Read More
JSTOR partners with APA to offer academic monographs through JSTOR’s ebook program - February 11, 2021
JSTOR is partnering with the American Psychological Association (APA) to offer academic monographs through JSTOR’s ebook program. More than 500 titles are available now, and APA will continue to add new academic titles as they are published. Like all ebooks… Read More
Bioscientifica launches new open-access journal Endocrine Oncology - February 9, 2021
Bioscientifica is launching a new, fully open-access, peer-reviewed journal, Endocrine Oncology, with free article publication charge to the journal’s authors. Led by Editor-in-Chief Edward Gelmann, from the University of Arizona, Endocrine Oncology’s highly accomplished and internationally diverse Editorial Board will oversee the rigorous yet… Read More
BMJ signals its commitment to an open access future - February 8, 2021
Bibsam Consortium in Sweden, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek for German Academic Institutions, and Jisc have entered into a transitional agreement to provide researchers at member institutions the opportunity to publish all of their research articles open access in BMJ’s hybrid… Read More
EMS Press journals become Open Access in 2021 - February 2, 2021
EMS Press has announced that all 10 of its Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) journals will become open access for 2021, including its flagship publication Journal of the European Mathematical Society. The Press chose S2O as its preferred route to open access as it does not rely… Read More
IWA Publishing transforms its journals to Open Access using Subscribe-to-Open - February 2, 2021
IWA Publishing, the wholly owned publishing subsidiary of the International Water Association based in London, has successfully transformed its journal portfolio of 10 subscription titles—including the flagship journal Water Science & Technology—to Open Access (OA) from 2021 onwards. In partnership with Knowledge Unlatched (KU),… Read More
Copyright Clearance Center announces new functionality in RightsLink® for Scientific Communications - January 28, 2021
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, is announcing new functionality in RightsLink® for Scientific Communications (RLSC), its market-leading, comprehensive scholarly communications workflow solution. RLSC is now able to inform authors of available Open Access (OA)… Read More
IET Journals are now fully Open Access on the IET Research hub - January 21, 2021
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), in partnership with Wiley, has now completed the transition of its entire journals portfolio to Open Access. The entire IET journals program has transitioned to fully gold Open Access as part of a publishing partnership with… Read More
