Karger Publishers Finalizes First Transformative Agreement in Latin America
Karger Publishers has closed another Open Access deal. The agreement with the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo, Brazil, marks the publisher’s first in the Latin American region.
Cambridge University Press announces new Open Access pilot scheme – Flip it Open
A new Open Access pilot scheme from Cambridge University Press will turn conventional publishing models on their head by making academic monographs that sell the most copies available online for free.
IEEE and IReL Expand Access To Irish Technology Research with New Transformative Open Access...
IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, announced today that it has reached an open access read and publish agreement with IReL, the Irish licensing consortium.
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Microbiology Society: Increasing transparency and openness
The Microbiology Society is pleased to announce three new initiatives that provide article-level metrics of all Open Access (OA) articles published by the Society’s six journals.
ACS transformative ‘read and publish’ agreement expands open access in Spain
Researchers affiliated with institutions of the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (Crue) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) will now be able to publish their research articles open access with no additional costs, following a landmark transformative “read and publish” agreement with the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
Open Access agreements with smaller publishers require active cross-stakeholder alignment, report says
Open Access agreements between consortia/libraries and smaller independent publishers are used worldwide increasingly since 2020, signalling a potential for further growth, highlights an independent report released today (June 9, 2021) by Information Power.
Luxembourg and Frontiers strike national Open Access publishing agreement
Luxembourg’s research community has strengthened its commitment to Open Access through a new national publishing agreement, announced this week. The Bibliothèque Nationale du Luxembourg, the country’s national library, and the open access publisher Frontiers have reached a three-year publishing deal that will run until February 2024.
Springer Nature, publisher of Nature and Scientific American, to build stronger understanding of US...
As part of its ongoing strategic intent to provide the best possible service to the US research ecosystem, Springer Nature is launching a US Research Advisory Council (USRAC).
EDP Sciences and Knowledge Unlatched announce a Subscribe-to-Open collaboration
In May 2021, EDP Sciences has announced that its complete mathematics journal portfolio of six subscription titles—including the flagship journal "ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical analysis"— transitioned to Open Access (OA) under the innovative Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) model.
IOP Publishing signs four-year read and publish agreement with IReL
IOP Publishing has signed a transformative agreement with the IReL consortium in Ireland. Through the ‘read and publish’ agreement, which lasts until the end of 2024, authors affiliated with eight member institutions of the consortium can publish open access papers in IOPP’s hybrid journals, with no article publication charges for qualifying articles at the point of publication.
Springer Nature and LYRASIS announce open access sponsorship agreement for books that support research...
Springer Nature has signed its first sponsorship agreement for open access books with LYRASIS, a US non-profit membership association of libraries, archives, and museums, starting in 2021.