Steven Inchcoombe, Chief Publishing Officer, Springer Nature comment on Plan S revised guidance
“We are and continue to be committed to the fastest and most effective route to immediate OA for all primary research and we welcome the inclusion by cOAlition S of some of our most recent feedback in their revised guidance.
Springer Nature announces transformational agreement with Qatar National Library
Springer Nature and Qatar National Library have announced a three-year agreement that combines reading access and open access (OA) publishing in a single arrangement.
PLOS Announces Published Peer Review Option
PLOS today announced that all its journals will offer authors the option to publish their peer review history alongside their accepted manuscript.
ScienceOpen and Tsinghua University Press partner to increase impact of Chinese research
The discovery platform ScienceOpen is partnering with Tsinghua University Press (TUP) to contextualize and promote Chinese research within an interactive research environment.
Knowledge Unlatched and partners launch Open Research Library
Free access to scientific content is often limited due to the fragile technical infrastructure around it: content is stored in a variety of versions at various locations and without any uniform search functionalities.
Springer Nature seeks views on new approach aimed at accelerating the transition to open...
In a blog published today, Springer Nature sets out a new approach to research publishing with the goal of increasing the demand from authors to immediately publish their research open access (OA) and growing the supply of journals able to publish OA, potentially enabling even highly selective journals such as Nature to transition to OA.
270 treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive made open access
To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive (DGBA). Over the space of 10 months, 27 titles per month will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested.
Jisc and Springer Nature renew transformational deal securing Open Access for UK higher education
Jisc and academic publisher Springer Nature have agreed a further ‘read and publish’ agreement that meets the aims of Plan S and offers researchers a funder compliant route to publishing in hybrid journals. Plan S requires that, from next year, scientific publications funded by public grants must be published in Open Access journals or platforms.
PLOS One’s Joerg Heber to address OA publishing
Join Joerg Heber, editor-in-chief at the journal PLOS One for his talk, “Advancing Open Science at PLOS One” followed by a panel discussion in the Leo and Dottie Kolligian Library, Room 360, on Monday, April 29, from 11 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.
De Gruyter and CzechELib sign “read and publish” agreement for access and open access
De Gruyter extends its reach in the Czech Republic and further develops its open access program
New report by Institute for Scientific Information on Plan S poses key questions for...
A new report on Plan S[1] from the Institute for Scientific Information, using Web of Science data poses a number of questions for the research community, including funders, publishers and institutions. This is the second report in the Global Research series from the recently relaunched Institute for Scientific Information.
De Gruyter flips top mathematics journal to open access
De Gruyter’s Advances in Nonlinear Analysis (ANA) is one of ten journals recently transformed from the subscription model to open access. ANA is one of the top journals in mathematics (2017 ISI Impact Factor 4.674, ranking second in applied mathematics and third in the entire discipline), which publishes high-quality research articles in the areas of nonlinear analysis and partial differential equations, and on their numerous applications in science and technology.