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
IET launches new Open Access Journal – IET Blockchain - September 21, 2020
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has launched a new gold open access multi-disciplinary journal - IET Blockchain. The first issue of the journal will publish in January 2021 and aims to attract original research and survey articles dedicated to theories,… Read More
The International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and Wiley Announce OA publishing deal - September 18, 2020
John Wiley and Sons Inc. and the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) have announced an open access publishing partnership for the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles. The journal will transition to the Wiley Online Library platform in the fall of 2020. Founded by ISEV in 2012… Read More
Copyright Clearance Center launches Open Access Workflow Services to support publishers - September 17, 2020
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has announced Open Access Workflow Services, a comprehensive consulting practice providing strategic Open Access (OA) and Transformative Agreement workflow support to publishers, funders, institutions and other key… Read More
Videos play a critical role in presenting results and procedures in EDP Sciences’ new OA journal Visualised Cancer Medicine - September 17, 2020
EDP Sciences has announced the launch of a new open access journal, Visualised Cancer Medicine (VCM). VCM is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, which publishes advances in basic, translational, and clinical studies on cancer biology, cancer prevention, cancer screening and diagnosis, cancer treatments,… Read More
