Molecular Biology and Evolution becomes fully open access - September 1, 2020
Oxford University Press (OUP) and the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) have announced that Molecular Biology and Evolution (MBE) will become fully open access from January 2021, with the publication of Volume 38. This is an exciting new venture for the journal, which has… Read More
New Journal: Philosophy of Medicine calls for submissions - August 31, 2020
A new open-access journal, Philosophy of Medicine, has been launched and is now accepting submissions. The journal’s inaugural editor-in-chief is Alex Broadbent and its deputy editor-in-chief is Jonathan Fuller. While it is an academic, peer-reviewed journal, it will also have a public… Read More
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press and Qatar National Library sign open access publication funding agreement - August 25, 2020
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) and Qatar National Library (QNL) have signed an agreement that funds and supports researchers from Qatar-based universities and institutions to publish their research freely as open access works. The published content funded by Qatar National… Read More
Qatar National Library joins global open access network to help improve OA support across the world - August 24, 2020
Qatar National Library has joined the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS), thus furthering its commitment to helping researchers in Qatar and beyond publish their findings on international publishing platforms. The Library was named as a representative of the Middle… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry unveils new OA journal – Environmental Science: Atmospheres - August 18, 2020
Royal Society of Chemistry has announced the launch of a new open access atmospheric chemistry journal entitled Environmental Science: Atmospheres. The new journal is a cross-disciplinary journal spanning all aspects of atmospheric science. Environmental Science: Atmospheres is inviting contributions from fields across the entirety of… Read More
GigaScience Press and River Valley Technologies’ new journal brings data-centric research to life - August 18, 2020
GigaScience Press and River Valley Technologies have announced the launch of their new journal GigaByte: an online open-access, open data journal that allows rapid publication using new custom-built, end-to-end publishing technology. This platform enables accepted manuscripts to be converted to an online… Read More
Frontiers and The Geological Society of London partner to launch Open Access journal Earth Science, Systems and Society - August 13, 2020
Frontiers and the Geological Society of London have announced that they have formed a publishing partnership to facilitate the launch of a new Gold Open Access journal Earth Science, Systems and Society (ES3). ES3 will publish timely and topical research of… Read More
Portico now hosts content from 11 open access e-journals from Medknow - August 12, 2020
Digital preservation service Portico now hosts content from 11 peer-reviewed medical journals from Medknow Publications. The titles are no longer available through any online platform; therefore, they have ‘triggered’ and are freely available to the community via the Portico archive. The titles were originally published as… Read More
Cambridge University Press and Hindawi Limited announce open access partnership - August 6, 2020
As part of Cambridge University Press’s continuing focus on open access, five of its journals will publish with Hindawi Limited under a new collaborative publishing agreement. Beginning in January 2021 (with submissions open from this September), the new partnership will see… Read More
SAGE and the Association for Computing Machinery collaborate with Nesta to launch a new OA journal – Collective Intelligence - August 5, 2020
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and SAGE Publishing with support from and in collaboration with the innovation foundation Nesta have announced a new journal, Collective Intelligence, to connect academia and practice and build a cross-disciplinary body of theories and results. The… Read More
