SPARC’s First Open Access Meeting a Success
SPARC just wrapped up a very successful first-ever Open Access (OA) Meeting in Kansas City, MO. This meeting built on the foundation established by...
Harvard Library to Deposit Additional Volumes in HathiTrust
The Harvard Library will deposit approximately 200,000 public domain volumes in HathiTrust, a shared digital repository for published materials. This follows Harvard's first deposit of approximately 53,000...
High impact EMBO Molecular Medicine to Publish Under Open Access Model
High impact EMBO Molecular Medicine to Publish Under Open Access Model
Hoboken, NJ – March 07, 2012; Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing...
American Heart Association launches free-access online journal
The American Heart Association has launched the online-only open-access Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease (JAHA) — packed with free peer-reviewed research on...
Open access to electronic theses soon to be commonplace
Doctoral theses can attract significant attention when made openly accessible in electronic form according to the respondents of a sector-wide survey of information professionals.
The...
New open access journal: Clinical and Translational Immunology
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the Australasian Society for Immunology (ASI) today announce a partnership to publish a new open access journal from December...
California Digital Library Joins PKP as Major Development Partner in Open Access Publishing
As the scholarly publishing landscape heats up with more talk of boycotts and Open Access mandates, research libraries increasingly find themselves at a crossroads...
NPG offers further open access options
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is pleased to announce an expansion in open access among its society-owned titles. A new open access journal, Molecular Therapy -...
Oxfam GB adopts BioMed’s Open Repository service
Today, Oxfam GB adopts ‘Open Repository’ – the service from open access specialist BioMed Central, which allows organizations to build, launch, host and maintain their own repositories.
While...
Springer in book partnership with American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy
Springer has signed a co-development partnership with the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) for the publication of books to be included...
Wolters Kluwer Health Acquires Leading Open Access STM Journal Publisher in India
Acquisition Gives Wolters Kluwer Health Strong Foothold in Open Access Publishing Business
Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that it has acquired Medknow PVT Ltd., a...
Call for proposals: SPARC Open Access Meeting Innovation Fair
Proposals are now being invited for the SPARC 2012 Open Access Meeting Innovation Fair, where new technologies and strategies will be showcased in engaging,...