De Gruyter transforms journal ‘Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis’ to OA via Subscribe to Open model - September 16, 2020
Together with the editors and the National Contact Point Open Access OA2020-DE, academic publisher De Gruyter is transforming the leading library journal Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis (BFP) into open access through the Subscribe to Open model. After a successful transformation, all journal content will be available… Read More
60 open access university-press monographs published through the TOME Initiative - September 15, 2020
Sixty scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences have been made freely available to researchers, students, and the general public under the TOME initiative. The Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, and Association of University Presses launched TOME (Toward… Read More
Frontiers and the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences announce OA publishing agreement - September 14, 2020
The Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences (Krems, Austria) has established an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. The Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, the Karl… Read More
New peer-reviewed OA journal Telemedicine Reports now accepting manuscripts - September 4, 2020
Telemedicine Reports, a new peer-reviewed open access companion to the highly regarded Telemedicine and e-Health, is officially open to receive manuscript submissions. All articles in Telemedicine Reports will be published open access under the CC-BY and CC-BY-NC licenses to ensure broad and… Read More
RegMedNet and Dimensions partner to provide free access to latest funding and grants data - September 2, 2020
RegMedNet, part of Future Science Group, and Dimensions, part of Digital Science, have partnered to expand access to data on the latest public and private grants and funding for regenerative medicine research. The partnership will provide members of RegMedNet, the trusted site… Read More
Hindawi and SAGE Publishing announce open access partnership - September 1, 2020
Academic publisher SAGE and open access publisher Hindawi recently entered into a publishing partnership agreement whereby the latter will publish and develop three SAGE gold open access journals for a period of at least three years. Beginning in January 2021 (with submissions… Read More
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
