Frontiers and the Institute of Marine Research form open access publishing agreement - October 16, 2020
The Institute of Marine Research form open access publishing agreement with Frontiers to support their authors in publishing open access. As part of the support, the Institute of Marine Research will cover Article Processing Charges (APCs) for eligible articles centrally for their eligible authors. As part… Read More
Wiley launches interdisciplinary open access journal Natural Sciences - October 14, 2020
John Wiley and Sons Inc. has announced the launch of its new premier open access journal, Natural Sciences. The journal, which fully embraces open research principles, is one of the mutual initiatives agreed to by Projekt DEAL and Wiley. Helmed by leading scientists in the… Read More
Jisc and PLOS agree to allow researchers to publish in PLOS journals - October 14, 2020
Jisc and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) have announced two three-year open access (OA) agreements that allow researchers to publish in PLOS journals without incurring article processing charges (APCs). This is the first time that a large university consortium has… Read More
Mechanics & Industry, the official journal of the AFM, joins the open access movement - October 14, 2020
EDP Sciences has announced that Mechanics & Industry (M&I), the official journal of the Association Française de Mécanique (AFM), will publish all articles open access from January 2021. M&I has been co-published in English with EDP Sciences since… Read More
Karger offers free access for Fast Facts series - October 9, 2020
Karger will offer clinicians and patients unlimited free access to the Fast Facts series, a collection of more than 100 resources spanning multiple topics across the field of medicine, effective January 2021. Fast Facts address knowledge gaps in healthcare, enabling a dialogue between healthcare professionals, patients,… Read More
Queen’s University Belfast joins the Frontiers – JISC national open access deal - October 5, 2020
Queen’s University Belfast 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… Read More
The University of Nottingham joins the Frontiers – JISC national open access deal - October 2, 2020
Frontiers has announced that the University of Nottingham 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… Read More
Springer Nature collaborates with the OAPEN foundation on open access toolkit for researchers and academic book authors - September 30, 2020
Springer Nature claims to be one of the founding members of the new OAPEN toolkit for researchers and academic book authors. The toolkit is a free-to-access, stakeholder-agnostic resource that aims to help authors better understand open access (OA) for books, to increase trust in OA book… Read More
Frontiers and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs form open access publishing agreement - September 29, 2020
The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) has partnered with Frontiers to support its authors in publishing open access. As part of the support, NUPI will cover Article Processing Charges (APCs) for eligible articles centrally for its eligible authors. As part of the UNIT Open Access… Read More
EMS Press launches new offer to support sustainable open access publishing - September 22, 2020
EMS Press, the publishing house of the European Mathematical Society, announced in June 2020 its Subscribe To Open (S2O) programme – initially for 10 journals. With S2O, libraries continue to subscribe to journals for 2021 (with the usual subscriber benefits, such as… Read More
