Announcing the PLOS Global Participation Initiative
PLOS is pleased to announce a program to increase the global participation of authors in open-access publishing. On September 4th, 2012, we launched the...
Wiley Joins the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., announced today its new membership of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). OASPA represents the interests of open...
IEEE, other standards organisations endorse OpenStand’ principles
IEEE, IAB, IETF, Internet Society and W3C Invite Other Standards Organizations, Governments and Companies to Support Modern Paradigm for Global, Open Standards
Shuang Yu, for...
Wolters Kuwers Ovid released OvidOpenAccess
Immediate and Unrestricted Access, via OvidSP, to Thousands of Full-Text Resources from Peer-Reviewed and Scholarly International Journals
Today's medical and scientific professionals—whether they're involved in...
Wiley Moves Towards Broader Open Access Licence
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced revised licensing arrangements for proprietary journals published under the Wiley Open Access program. The journals will adopt...
SAGE Partners with UC Berkeley on SAGE Open
SAGE and the University of California, Berkeley, have announced a partnership designed to encourage social science and humanities faculty and students at the university...
Elsevier Launches New Open Access Journal: Applied and Translational Genomics
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announces the launch of Applied and Translational Genomics, an open access journal....
JISC and Wellcome Trust to support universities with new open access demands
The recent Finch report said that universities will have to be increasingly efficient in the way they pay for open access publishing in the form of...
BioMed Central launches new online reprint ordering service
BioMed Central is pleased to announce the launch of a new online reprint ordering service, provided by EzReprint, a part of Yurchak Printing, Inc,...
RSC launches £1 million Gold for Gold as Open Access transition begins
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced a groundbreaking £1 million initiative to support British researchers as they begin the transition to Gold Open...
Huge transition costs will mean a bumpy ride to reach Open Access, says RSC...
The Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry has welcomed the government's Open Access proposals announced yesterday, but said the estimated £50 million...
IEEE Announces Next Steps in its Open Access Strategy
Dr. Michael Pecht, Director of the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering, Named Editor-in-Chief of IEEE’s First Interdisciplinary, Rapid-Publication Journal
17 July 2012 – IEEE,...