Open Access

OpenAthens has delivered the first phase of OpenAthens Access, its new software as a service (SaaS) product for service providers (SP). The new dashboard unifies two previously separate systems for easier resource set up and quicker membership to federations.

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) today announced the launch of a new open access program, IET Open. The creation of the program underpins the IET’s commitment to supporting open science across engineering disciplines to progress research across all areas.

For the first time, a study has developed scenarios for restructuring transitioning Switzerland's scientific publication system towards Open Access (OA). The study was initiated by the SNSF in collaboration with the Scientific Information programme (SUC P-2) run by swissuniversities. It recommends a model that proposes a pragmatic and flexible way of making publicly funded research freely available at no charge and with no delay.

Concordia celebrated this next-generation library initiative and the donors who made it possible — the Birks Family Foundation and Brian and Carolyn Neysmith — on October 27. View photos from the event on Flickr, or listen to a podcast of the event.

PLOS is pleased to announce that Jenny Machida has joined the PLOS Board of Directors, effective October 21, 2016. “Jenny’s deep business knowledge with a focus on strategy, growth and organization performance will greatly contribute to PLOS as we strive to build a better publishing experience for authors in 2017 and beyond,” said Board Chairman Gary Ward.

The research network ScienceOpen is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). ScienceOpen is a next-generation research discovery platform, and the OLH is a charitable organization dedicated to supporting and extending open access to scholarship in the humanities.

The research network ScienceOpen is pleased to announce a new partnership with PeerJ. ScienceOpen is a next-generation research discovery platform, and PeerJ is an award-winning open access publisher.

The University of California, Riverside Library will host International Open Access Week 2016, an event that is part of a global effort called Open Access Week. Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn about the potential benefits of sharing what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make “open access” a new norm in scholarship and research.

OpenAthens has today announced that ASTM International, the Pennsylvania, USA-based publisher of international standards, manuals, scholarly publications and e-learning courses has joined the OpenAthens access management federation. This move provides straightforward and secure access to ASTM International’s wide library of over 12,000 standards and related products

The number of open access (OA) research articles published annually is growing at double the rate of the complete spectrum of research articles — this according to the most recent report from media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information.

Britton, who has decades of experience working in the marketing and research information industries, will be responsible for the open research portfolio across Springer Nature, including BioMed Central, SpringerOpen, the open access journals from Nature Research and open access monographs from Springer and Palgrave Macmillan.

The PLOS Genetics Editors-in-Chief and Senior Editors congratulate Santiago Naranjo, Justin D. Smith, Carlo G. Artieri, Mian Zhang, Yiqi Zhou, Michael E. Palmer and Hunter B. Fraser, authors of the article chosen as the recipient of the PLOS Genetics Research Prize 2016, Dissecting the Genetic Basis of a Complex cis-Regulatory Adaptation.