Open Access

Oxford University Press and the Max Planck Society are delighted to announce a new two-year deal, which includes a significant open access element, to provide access to OUP’s prestigious journal collection for all Max Planck Society members.

eLife, together with the non-profit Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko), open-access publisher Hindawi Limited and digital consultancy Digirati, has today announced a new formal partnership to develop the latest version of Libero.

At the wrap-up of the international open access week the VSNU, The Association of Universities in The Netherlands, has published the latest number of open access articles (covering 2017). Almost 28.000 peer-reviewed articles from Dutch authors are openly available for everybody.

The Thieme Group continuously expands their open access offering, with 13 journals dedicated to various medical fields added this year alone. The open access portfolio meanwhile comprises more than 40 international journals.

The Peter Lang publishing group further expands its Open Access program by launching a new peer reviewed Open Access book series.

Open Access Week is the perfect time to announce that Wiley and Hindawi have expanded their Open Access publishing collaboration. Today’s announcement adds four new journals to the nine currently in the program.

Open data has become more embedded in the research community – 64% of survey respondents reveal they made their data openly available in 2018. However, a surprising number of respondents (60%) had never heard of the FAIR principles, a guideline to enhance the reusability of academic data.

ScienceOpen and Carl Hanser Verlag are pleased to announce a partnership that integrates all of Hanser’s journal content and highlights the International Journal of Materials Research (IJMR) in the ScienceOpen discovery environment in the form of a featured collection.

OpenAthens, which provides federated identity and access management services to a global client base, will be exploring the online user journey and experience during two sessions at Internet Librarian 2018 in California, both presented by Jon Bentley, commercial director, OpenAthens.

DeGruyter, Peter Lang, Vervuert and Knowledge Unlatched cooperate for Open Access in Romance Studies

The discovery platform ScienceOpen is partnering with Compuscript/International Science Editing in China to develop new products tailored specifically for the Chinese market.

The Peter Lang publishing group and the Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Open Access marketplace have reached an agreement on the promotion of Open Access publications in the field of law