BMJ and IReL extend partnership to provide Irish member institutions and research bodies the opportunity to publish OA in BMJ Journals - May 5, 2021
Global healthcare knowledge provider BMJ and IReL have extended an existing partnership to a ‘Publish and Read’ agreement. The agreement will grant full read access to 28 specialist journals from BMJ‘s journal portfolio for the next three years. Researchers at member institutions will also benefit from BMJ,… Read More
Language Science Press, together with Knowledge Unlatched, renews its open access initiative for three more years - May 3, 2021
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the central platform for Open Access (OA) financing models, has announced that the Language Science Press (LSP) initiative has reached its crowd funding goal and will be renewed for three more years. LSP first launched in 2017 as a three-year pilot and was met… Read More
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. signs new four year transitional open access agreement with swissuniversities - April 30, 2021
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. have announced a new four year read-and-publish agreement with swissuniversities to provide unlimited read access and to accelerate open access publishing among over 40 Swiss higher education and research institutions across Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The read-and-publish agreement allows members and customers… Read More
Wolters Kluwer collaborates with Shandong University to publish two open access journals - April 28, 2021
Wolters Kluwer, Health has announced the addition of two fully open access journals to the Lippincott® portfolio as part of a shared mission with Shandong University to expand the reach of healthcare discoveries globally with the publication of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine and Current Urology. The… Read More
PLOS set to launch five new peer-reviewed Open Access journals in 2021 - April 28, 2021
PLOS, a non-profit, open access publisher, is set to launch five new peer-reviewed Open Access journals in 2021, all with an emphasis on directly addressing the most pressing health and environmental issues facing the society today. The approach is to co-create - with researchers at the forefront… Read More
Wolters Kluwer and Chinese Medical Association to publish new OA journals Cardiology Discovery and Infectious Diseases & Immunity - April 26, 2021
Wolters Kluwer, Health has announced the publication of two new, fully open access journals under its Lippincott® portfolio as part of an ongoing collaboration with the Chinese Medical Association (CMA). Cardiology Discovery and Infectious Diseases & Immunity will accelerate the dissemination, exchange, and utilization of scientific research… Read More
Wiley and Cochrane announced pilot agreement with OhioLINK to provide Ohio Citizens with free access to the Cochrane Library - April 23, 2021
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and Cochrane have announced a pilot access agreement with OhioLINK, a state-wide academic library consortium. Under this agreement people living in the U.S. state of Ohio will have free access to the Cochrane Library for one year. Published by… Read More
Elsevier announces free special issue to support Earth Day 2021 - April 22, 2021
Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, is releasing a freely-available special issue of curated content focused on issues of climate action and restoration, in recognition of Earth Day 2021. Consisting of journal articles and book chapters supporting the United… Read More
AUBO (Beijing) Intelligent Science and Technology Co. Ltd in deal with F1000 to launch first open research publishing platform dedicated to cobots - April 21, 2021
AUBO (Beijing) Intelligent Science and Technology Co. Ltd has signed a contract with F1000, Taylor & Francis Group’s open research publishing arm, to develop the first open research publishing platform dedicated to the science and technology of collaborative robots. Collaborative robots, or “cobots”… Read More
OUP in deal with Health Education England to provides access to 130 medical and healthcare eBooks for NHS staff in England - April 21, 2021
Academic publisher Oxford University Press has announced a three-year agreement with Health Education England (HEE) to provide national, online access for all National Health Service (NHS) staff and learners in England to over 130 medical and healthcare titles published by OUP. HEE, who are part of… Read More
