Open Access

The Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) Open Programme has added three more fully Gold Open Access journals to its collection spanning the subjects of Energy, Manufacturing and Cognitive Systems.

Largest Ever Study of Peer Review Shines Light on Under-Representation in the Peer Review Process and the Growing Demand for Non-Western Researchers to Participate.

Springer Nature welcomes open letter on peer review reports. We are delighted to be partnering with other publishers in promoting transparency in the peer review process by signing ASAPbio’s open letter.

More than 250% increase in use compared to 2017! Knowledge Unlatched (KU) announces a new record for usage of its Open Access (OA) books. Over 950 titles from the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) have been accessed more than 1 million times by users worldwide in the past 8 months of this year alone.

With 39% open access publications, Switzerland occupies the top spot for OA publishing. Globally, the share of research results published 'open access' is 30%

IntechOpen has become the first fully Open Access book publisher to implement Altmetric Badges for Books, allowing authors to easily see where their work is getting attention online.

The National Contact Point Open Access OA2020-DE, the publisher transcript, the Political Science Information Service (FID) at the Bremen State and University Library and Knowledge Unlatched are launching a project today that will enable political scientists to publish their books directly in Open Access.

The Public Library of Science (PLOS) and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) announce an agreement that enables the automatic posting of research articles submitted to PLOS journals on bioRxiv, CSHL’s preprint server for the life sciences.

Federated access management specialist OpenAthens is to host a conference focused on ‘championing the user’ in March.

IntechOpen, the largest scientific research publisher of open access books, achieved another milestone with additional 509 chapters of its books accepted for indexing in the Book Citation Index in the Web of Science™ Core Collection (BKCI).

Content mining, machine learning, text and data mining (TDM) and data analytics all refer to the process of obtaining information through machine-read material.

The proportion of UK research which is available via open access is increasing at a considerable rate, with 37% of research outputs freely available to the world immediately at publication.