New open access journal Biophysical Reports invites submissions - February 23, 2021
Biophysical Reports, the new fully Gold OA journal offered by the Biophysical Society (BPS), is now accepting submissions. The latest addition to the BPS’s family of journals will feature short contributions (Letters and Reports) with rapid turnarounds as well as Research Articles and Reviews.… Read More
Penn State University Libraries’ Open Publishing unit publishes first issue of the Penn State Journal of Medicine - February 22, 2021
Penn State University Libraries’ Open Publishing unit recently published the first issue of the Penn State Journal of Medicine. All of the content in the peer-reviewed journal is edited by medical students in the Penn State College of Medicine and published open access, meaning… Read More
The Big Ten Academic Alliance and DOAJ announce collective action agreement - February 19, 2021
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) have announced a three-year collective action agreement that provides multi-year support for DOAJ from all fifteen member libraries. DOAJ indexes and promotes quality, peer-reviewed open access journals from across the… Read More
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
