More open access for CERN authors with a new agreement with IOPP - May 7, 2020
CERN has signed a ‘publish and read’ agreement with IOP Publishing (IOPP) to make open-access (OA) share in scientific information gain more ground in 2020. All research articles by corresponding authors with a primary or secondary affiliation to CERN, including articles… Read More
Qatar National Library Consortium and Elsevier sign combined reading and publishing pilot agreement - May 6, 2020
Qatar National Library Consortium and Elsevier, a global leader in information analytics, specialising in science and health, have announced a new pilot agreement for fully open access publishing in Qatar, which represents the company's first combined reading and… Read More
University of Arizona and Frontiers extend open access publishing agreement - May 5, 2020
University of Arizona (UA) Libraries held an institutional membership trial agreement with Frontiers, enabling UA-affiliated corresponding authors to benefit from a 7.5 percent membership discount on article processing charges (APCs) until the end of 2019. The collaboration has now been further formalised and extended. Starting… Read More
IAVS and Pensoft launch open-access journal on vegetation classification on ARPHA platform - May 5, 2020
The International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS) decided to launch a gold open-access academic journal, titled Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), last summer. IAVS, at that time, signed a contract with scientific publisher and technology provider Pensoft and its self-developed innovative, fast-track… Read More
The International Journal of Public Health transitions to Open Access - May 4, 2020
The International Journal of Public Health has announced its transition from a subscription model to Gold Open Access, effective January 2021. The journal, which celebrates its 100th anniversary soon, is owned by the Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+). The journal will also be transferring from its current publisher… Read More
Oxford University Press unveils new OA journal series - May 1, 2020
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced the first two titles in the new flagship open access journal series. The Oxford Open series launches with Oxford Open Immunology and Oxford Open Materials Science. This is seen as an important step forward in OUP’s open access… Read More
Biochemical Society and Portland Press suspend paywalls on all published content - May 1, 2020
Portland Press is suspending paywalls on all content published across the Biochemical Society’s seven journals until further notice to support the global research community during the current Covid-19 pandemic. This means access to articles will be freely available to all, whether working remotely or in a… Read More
PLOS and Iowa State University Library announce APC-free Open Access publishing deal - April 30, 2020
Iowa State University Library and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) have announced a three-year Open Access agreement that allows researchers to publish in PLOS’ suite of journals without incurring Article Processing Charges (APCs). This partnership brings together two organisations that believe researchers should be able… Read More
Jisc, AoC, UUK, and ucisa seek parity of online access for learners during the coronavirus crisis - April 27, 2020
Leaders at Jisc, the UK’s education and technology not-for-profit, the Association of Colleges (AoC), Universities UK (UUK), and ucisa, the professional body for digital practitioners in education, have sought parity of online access for UK further education (FE) and higher education (HE) students during the coronavirus crisis.… Read More
SPIE set to launch new gold OA journal – Journal of Optical Microsystems, JM3 to be renamed - April 24, 2020
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced the launch of a new Gold Open Access journal, the Journal of Optical Microsystems (JOM), which will publish cutting-edge research of optical and photonic microsystems. Hans Zappe, co-editor-in-chief of SPIE's Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS… Read More
