Open Access

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

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%