Nature Communications data shows open access articles have more views and downloads
An independent statistical analysis of the articles published in Nature Communications, carried out by the Research Information Network (RIN) has found that open access...
Portland Press – Open access publishing fees waived for low income countries
Authors from low income countries will no longer have to pay open access author processing charges, the Biochemical Society and Portland Press Limited today...
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and Wiley partner to launch new Open Access journal
John Wiley and Sons Inc. and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) announced today the launch of the Society’s first fully open access journal:...
Springer celebrates open access milestone
Springer is celebrating the milestone of 200,000 open access articles published to date. The articles, published acrossBioMed Central andSpringerOpen are freely available and published...
First articles published in new fully Open Access Journals from EDP Open
EDP Open the new Open Access imprint from EDP Sciences has announced the publication of the first articles in their newly launched fully Gold...
Royal Society of Chemistry’s flagship journal goes Gold open access
The Royal Society of Chemistry’s flagship journal, Chemical Science, is going Gold open access from 2015 – making it the world’s first high-quality open...
SAGE launches OA journal on Big Data & Society
Leading independent and academic publisher SAGE, has today launched Big Data & Society, an open access (OA), peer reviewed scholarly journal dedicated to exploring...
Frontiers and University College London continue open-access agreement
Swiss open-access publisher and research network, Frontiers, part of the Nature Publishing Group family, is pleased to announce the continuation of its open access...
Award winning Open Access academic publisher PeerJ raises Series A investment from SAGE and...
Academic publisher SAGE and PeerJ Inc., publisher of the Open Access journal PeerJ and pre-print server PeerJ PrePrints, are pleased to announce that SAGE has led a new investment as...
WHO joins PubMed Central
There are many drivers behind the open access movement: to accelerate the pace of scientific research, discovery and innovation; increase the visibility, readership and...
SPARC and the World Bank to co-host kickoff event for 2014 International Open Access
On Monday, October 20th, from 3:00 to 4:00pm EDT, SPARC and the World Bank will co-host the official kickoff event for International Open Access...
Springer to collaborate with Japan Geoscience Union on new open access journal
Springer and the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU), the organization that represents most of the earth and planetary science societies in Japan, have launched the...