ARL endorses Berlin Declaration on OA to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
On November 1, 2011, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) joined over 300 organizations and institutions to endorse the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to...
BQF Journals signs Open Access agreement with Max Planck Society
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ) and the German Max Planck Society (MPS) announced today that they have signed an agreement whereby open access publication...
Sage Launches Clinical Pharmacology In Drug Development
SAGE and the American College of Clinical Pharmacology (ACCP) announce the launch of Clinical Pharmacology in Drug Development (CPDD), a new peer-reviewed journal focused...
Royal Society journal archive made permanently free to access
The Royal Society has today announced that its world-famous historical journal archive – which includes the first ever peer-reviewed scientific journal – has been...
Springer and Japanese library consortium sign licensing agreement
Springer and the Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE) recently signed a comprehensive agreement for current electronic journal subscriptions and online...
TMS and Springer Launch New and Innovative Open Access Journal
The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) and Springer officially announced the launch of a new Open Access journal, "Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation"...
Springer extends its services for authors
Partnership with international scientific editing team
In future, Springer will be working closely with the Edanz Group, an editing service for scientific manuscripts, thus stepping...
AIP announces winners of the 2011 AIP Science Communication Awards
Theories that predict the end of time and one astronomer's pioneering quest to find distant cousins of Earth are the stories honored with this...
22 Emerald Health and Social Care journals in free access for World Mental Health...
In support of World Mental Health Day, held annually on 10 October to raise public awareness about mental health issues worldwide, Emerald Group Publishing...
ACRL Signs Berlin OA Declaration, Encourages Others
ACRL is proud to join the growing ranks of signatories to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and the...
Authors groups join lawsuit against HathiTrust over orphan works
The U.K. Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society, the Norwegian Nonfiction Writers and Translators Association, the Swedish Writers Union, The Writers’ Union of Canada, and...
British Library welcomes CENL announcement to support Open Data Licensing
The British Library welcomes the announcement made by the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) to support the open licensing of their data (28...