PLOS welcomes Brookings Institution report supporting passage of FRPAA
PLOS applauds the call for passage of the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) in the recently released report by the Brookings Institution. ...
Open Access: ‘we no longer need expensive publishing networks’
Higher education institutions need to recognise the changing world of publishing, says Rupert Gatti – it's time for academics to take matters into their...
SISSA Media Lab and IOP Publishing to offer open access options on joint journals
SISSA Medialab are pleased to announce that they will be offering a full hybrid open access option on the journals jointly owned with IOP...
Springer to publish new open access journal with the Korean Society for Micro and...
Beginning in March 2013, Springer and the Korean Society for Micro and Nano Systems will partner to publish a new interdisciplinary journal Micro and...
Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine: New Open Access Journal launched by Wiley
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced the launch of Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine (MGGM), a new Wiley Open Access journal. Under the...
‘BMC Medicine’ study describes increasing prevalence of open access publishing
Last month saw the sixth annual Open Access Week take place, and our colleagues at BioMed Central organised a number of events around the world to spread the...
BMJ Group launches six specialty editions of its open access title BMJ Open
The international medical publisher BMJ Group has launched six specialty editions of its innovative online journal BMJ Open (bmjopen.com/editions) to coincide with Open Access...
COAR report “The Current State of Open Access Repository Interoperability (2012)” released
COAR is pleased to announce publication of the report, The Current State of Open Access Repository Interoperability (2012). The report provides an overview of the...
ISSCR to Launch Open-Access Journal, Stem Cell Reports
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) announces the launch of Stem Cell Reports, its new online, open-access journal. With a focus on...
What Authors Want From Open Access Publishing
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced the results of an author survey on open access, with over ten thousand respondents from across Wiley’s...
British Ecological Society Partners With Wiley Open Access Journal Ecology and Evolution
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has announced a new partnership between the British Ecological Society (BES) and the Wiley Open Access journal Ecology and...
BMJ Group launches six specialty editions of its open access title BMJ Open
The international medical publisher BMJ Group has launched six specialty editions of its innovative online journal BMJ Open (bmjopen.com/editions) to coincide with Open Access...