All participating Jisc member articles published with De Gruyter to be open access - November 9, 2020
Jisc Collections and De Gruyter have signed an agreement to provide default open access publishing in De Gruyter journals for all authors at participating institutions, and subscription access to the complete De Gruyter e-Journal collection. The agreement runs for three years… Read More
Qatar National Library supports global reach of Qatar’s research - November 9, 2020
Open access aims to return academic publishing to its original intention of spreading knowledge and sharing research without the barriers of high publishing, distribution and licensing costs. Open access journals provide increased visibility for researchers and their work, and give students or other researchers easy access to the information they… Read More
AIP Publishing and Tianjin University partner to publish Nanotechnology and Precision Engineering - November 3, 2020
AIP Publishing, a not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has partnered with Tianjin University to publish Nanotechnology and Precision Engineering (NPE), their peer-reviewed Open Access journal. NPE will launch on AIP Publishing's Scitation platform on January 1,… Read More
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
