Wiley Creates New Role to Lead Open Access
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., announced today the creation of a new role to lead open access. Rachel Burley has been appointed to the...
Call for submissions to ‘eLife’ journal for life and biomedical sciences
eLife, the funder-researcher collaboration for the very best in science and science communication, is now accepting submissions for its new journal. The open-access ‘eLife’...
eLife selects HighWire to build and host anticipated new open-access journal
eLife, the new funder–researcher collaboration in science communication, has selected HighWire Press as the platform for its new open-access journal for life and biomedical...
STM welcomes support for gold open access from PEER conference
‘Gold’ open access (OA) publication is the practical route to achieving sustainable OA, the project partners have agreed at the PEER End of Project...
White House Petition on Open Access to Research Speeding Along
A community-driven petition calling for the Obama Administration to open up the results of taxpayer-funded scientific research by making journal articles freely available online has opened...
Wiley-Blackwell Launches New Open Access Journal: Food Science & Nutrition
Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced the launch of Food Science & Nutrition as part...
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. launches new OA journal – BioResearch Open Access
The inaugural issue of BioResearch Open Access, a new bimonthly peer-reviewed open access journal, was released today by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The Journal provides...
Versita launches largest ever Open Access journal program
Academic publisher Versita announced today the launch of a new program of Open Access journals. 100 Emerging Science Journals are being launched in 2012....
STM welcomes UK minister’s support for sustainable open access
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has welcomed the support of David Willetts, the UK Minister of State for Universities and Science,...
OAPEN unveils beta version of Directory of Open Access Books
OAPEN is pleased to announce the launch of the Directory of Open Access Books (www.doabooks.org), a discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an Open...
American Institute of Physics announces two new open-access journals
Two new open-access journals will join the distinguished ranks of publications produced by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) later this year. The journals...
Wellcome Trust backs campaign for open access academic journals
Wellcome Trust joins 'academic spring' to open up science.
Wellcome backs campaign to break stranglehold of academic journals and allow all research papers to be...