Government mistaken in focusing on Gold as route to full open access, says Committee
The Government’s commitment to increasing access to published research findings, and its desire to achieve full open access, are welcome, says the Business, Innovation...
Copyright Clearance Center Joins Gold Open Access Infrastructure Program
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization creating global licensing, content and Open Access (OA) solutions that make copyright work for everyone, has joined...
Asia’s Leading Oncology Journal Cancer Science Adopts Open Access
John Wiley and Sons, Inc., announced today that Cancer Science has become the first Japanese journal of its size to transition to open access,...
Elsevier Announces the Launch of a New Open Access Journal: Water Resources and Industry
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the launch of a new open access journal Water Resources...
Creative Commons CC0 waiver to become part of BioMed Central’s Copyright and License Agreement
The Creative Commons CC0 waiver will become part of theBioMed Central Copyright and License Agreement on Tuesday 3rd September. For articles submitted from this date, CC0 will...
Brill expands Brill Open to include monographs and edited volumes
Brill extends Brill Open, its Open Access model, to include books.
As a major publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Biology and International Law, Brill is committed...
Study explores effects of review setting on scientific peer review
Research findings published today in PLOS ONE report that the setting in which a scientific peer review panel evaluates grant applications does not necessarily impact the...
Wiley and American Neurological Association partner to launch new OA journal
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and the American Neurological Association (ANA) announced today a partnership to launchAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, a new online-only, open...
SpringerPlus journal passes 1,000 article submissions
Springer announced today that its SpringerPlus journal has passed an important milestone – more than 1,000 submissions by authors wishing to be published in...
Swets introduces Open Access APC management service
As the open access publishing model expands at an increasing rate, new challenges naturally arise for libraries, publishers, funders and researchers. Libraries in particular...
PLOS Journals now optimized for tablets
In December 2012 we redesigned all our journals, and although they’ve always worked on tablets, we’ve now tailored them to suit these devices as...
BioMed Central launches new OA journal, Movement Ecology
BioMed Central, is today launching a new open access journal Movement Ecology, marking a significant milestone in this field of research as the first...