BioMed Central becomes first publisher to implement Author Contributorship Badges
The open access publisher BioMed Central is the first publisher to pilot a new system which clearly shows exactly how each researcher contributed to...
Dove Medical Press reinstated as OASPA Members
It has been almost two years since Dove’s membership was terminated owing to concerns about the rigour of the editorial and peer review processes...
RCUK seeks feedback on good practice guidelines for open research data
Research Councils UK (RCUK), on behalf of the UK Open Research Data Forum, has today (17 August 2015) published a draft Concordat on Open...
Perceptions of open access publishing are changing for the better, a survey by Nature...
A survey of 22,000 academic researchers by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Palgrave Macmillan has found that a decreasing number of authors are concerned...
BioMed Central launches checklist for reproducibility
BioMed Central has launched a pilot checklist to improve the reproducibility of studies published in its journals.
In recent decades, the reproducibility of a large...
Springer partners with the Fields Institute to publish two open access journals
SpringerOpen is now co-publishing two journals from the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences: Mathematics-in-Industry Case Studies and Fields Mathematics Education Journal. Both...
Cambridge University Press prevents double-dipping in new Open Access subscription policy
Cambridge University Press is launching a new policy to prevent charging both authors and subscribers for Open Access journal content (so-called double-dipping).
Matthew Day, Head...
BioMed Central partners with Japanese Environmental Mutagen Society to publish Genes and Environment
BioMed Central is pleased to partner with the Japanese Environmental Mutagen Society in publishing the open access journal Genes and Environment.
Editor-in-Chief of the journal,...
New research shows the impact of open data on agriculture and nutrition
Today, the Global Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative, of which CABI is a partner, released new research in collaboration with the...
Open Access Books Slowly on the Rise
Publishers and libraries are increasingly experimenting with Open Access (OA) books, according to a new survey by industry advisors, Publishers Communication Group (PCG). Books...
Open-access publisher sacks 31 editors amid fierce row over independence
A booming open-access (OA) publishing company has dismissed virtually the entire leadership of two medical journals amid a heated conflict over editorial independence. Frontiers,...
Cambridge launch new open access journal – Global Health, Epidemiology and Genomics
Cambridge University Press is delighted to announce a major new open access journal, Global Health, Epidemiology and Genomics (GHEG), dedicated to publishing and disseminating...