PLOS and CRediT Document Comprehensive and Standardized Author Contributions
Our January update on author credit focused on how PLOS was moving forward with the use of ORCID identifiers (iDs) for researcher identification. Starting...
CABI launches open access book programme
CABI, has launched Open Books. This new programme supports authors and collaborating organisations wishing to publish open access books across a wide range of...
PeerJ launches a free ‘jobs board’ for academic positions
PeerJ (an open access publisher of scholarly journals in biology, medicine, health and computer sciences) today launched a free-to-use “Jobs Board” (available at https://peerj.com/jobs/).
The...
Nine journals to become open access under partnership between Wiley and Hindawi
ohn Wiley and Sons, Inc. and Hindawi today announced a new partnership that will strengthen both publishers’ commitment to open access publishing. This new...
ScienceOpen partners with SciELO to put research in a global context
The research network ScienceOpen is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), the leading open access publisher in...
New Player in an Open Access Publishing Market
Exeley Inc., a New York based, newly incorporated publishing company for scientific journals, announces its official launch as of the 1st of June 2016....
InTechOpen’s Journals heading to SAGE Publishing
InTechOpen announced today the sale of its open access peer reviewed journals to SAGE Publishing, a strategic decision to further support and accelerate InTechOpen’s...
Karger Publishers and Dutch Universities Sign Novel Open Access and License Agreement
Nine members of the Dutch UKB consortium finalized an agreement with Karger Publishers which incorporates the publication of a fixed number of Open Access...
Easing Discovery: A New Website for PLOS
PLOS has a history of moving forward on initiatives designed to benefit diverse stakeholders, from authors, reviewers, editors and librarians to policy makers, educators...
SAGE Publishing’s premier broad-spectrum HSS OA journal celebrates strong growth on its five-year anniversary
SAGE Publishing is delighted to report that its pioneering broad-spectrum open access journal SAGE Open is marking its fifth anniversary with more than 1,350...
OASPA Board announces recent changes to OASPA team
The OASPA Board have appointed Claire Redhead as Executive Director of OASPA to reflect her role as leading operations and expansion of the association.
OASPA...
The IET, CEPRI and Tsinghua University launch new open access journal, High Voltage
The IET and CEPRI (the China Electric Power Research Institute)have launched the first issue of a new fully open access journal, High Voltage.
The first...