Elsevier offers free special issue for Earth Day 2020 - April 23, 2020
Elsevier, a global leader in information analytics specialising in science and health, is releasing an Earth Day special issue collection in honour of Earth Day’s 50th anniversary. Thirty journal articles and 20 book chapters on various related topics will be freely available on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect, starting… Read More
IOP Publishing and CERN sign open access publishing agreement - April 16, 2020
Researchers from CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, can now publish open access with IOP Publishing at no cost, after the two organisations struck a new ‘publish and read’ agreement. The agreement enables authors from CERN to publish open access… Read More
IET releases access to COVID-19 related research to support researchers in fight against virus - April 16, 2020
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has released free access to research on areas relating to COVID-19, respiratory viruses, ventilators and ventilator components to help guide research efforts in the fight against the global pandemic. By collating relevant content from across the IET’s journals… Read More
MIT Press publishes its first open access monographs on the MIT Press Direct platform - April 15, 2020
The MIT Press has announced the publication of its first open access (OA) monographs on the MIT Press Direct platform. Supported by a grant from the Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, the project is part of a larger initiative to… Read More
The MIT Press expands access to a variety of free content during the Covid-19 pandemic - April 13, 2020
To address the increased need for digital content and distance learning during the Covid-19 pandemic, the MIT Press is rapidly expanding access to a variety of free content. From making select books freely available on their open-source platform to granting libraries complimentary access to its institutional… Read More
OUP and American Physiological Society launch new OA journal – Function - April 13, 2020
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) and the American Physiological Society (APS) have announced that the new journal, Function, is now accepting submissions. Function will provide an open access multidisciplinary home for cutting edge research describing major advances… Read More
IEEE provides free access to COVID-19 relevant research articles and Standards in IEEE Xplore® Digital Library - April 8, 2020
Technical professional organisation IEEE is committed to supporting the global response to COVID-19. The organisation is providing free, direct access to a collection of various COVID-19 related research articles and standards to help researchers understand, manage and combat the different aspects of the pandemic. IEEE… Read More
2020 volume of the Annual Review of Public Health switches from gated to open access - April 8, 2020
Nonprofit publisher Annual Reviews has announced that the 2020 volume of the Annual Review of Public Health has been converted from gated to open access, with all articles published under a CC BY license. The back volumes, dating from 1980, are also freely available. The Annual… Read More
University of Pennsylvania Press offers free digital access during the COVID-19 pandemic - April 7, 2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, academic research is more important than ever, and the large-scale shift to distance learning at colleges and universities around the world means students need new forms of access to content. In response to these new and extensive demands, the University of… Read More
Journal of Neuroeducation – A new space for neuroscience and education - April 6, 2020
Building bridges between the science and education communities to contribute and improve the current didactic experiences is the goal of the Journal of Neuroeducation (JONED), a new online free-access journal open to the scientific community at a national and international level. JONED is promoted by the Chair of Neuroeducation of… Read More
