The future of scholarly books is open (access)
A global Springer Nature survey of more than 2,500 academic book authors provides in-depth insights into perceptions of open access (OA) | Conclusions and recommendations to further increase take-up of OA books
OhioLINK Breaks New Ground Creating Central Fund for Open Access Publications with Wiley
John Wiley and Sons, Inc. and OhioLINK, a library consortium serving 118 libraries and 89 Ohio colleges and universities, announced today the signing of a Wiley Open Access Account agreement.
Despite one-year delay Plan S may still be too rushed, warn researchers
The funders behind Plan S – an ambitious set of policies that aims to speed up the transition to open access publishing – have released updated guidelines that delay implementing the plan for a year and provide more clarity on transformative publishing agreements.
PLOS welcomes the revised Plan S guidelines.
As a fully Open Access publisher entirely ready to support cOAlition S-funded authors, PLOS has always been in a position to give our support to this bold initiative, and entirely agree that the driving principles and overall objective of Plan S have not been lessened or changed.
cOAlition S Releases Revised Implementation Guidance on Plan S Following Public Feedback Exercise
Today cOAlition S releases revised guidance on Plan S implementation which has been approved by all coalition members. “Plan S is a bold step forward which the European Commission, along with a growing number of national funders, is committed to implement” explained Carlos Moedas, the European Commissioner for Science, Research and Innovation.
Hindawi opens up journal reporting through partnership with DataSalon
Hindawi Limited and DataSalon, experts in customer insight solutions for publishers, are partnering to provide useful information about the entire Hindawi journal portfolio. The insights are at individual journal level and cover the years 2017, 2018 and 2019 to date – updated monthly.
Steven Inchcoombe, Chief Publishing Officer, Springer Nature comment on Plan S revised guidance
“We are and continue to be committed to the fastest and most effective route to immediate OA for all primary research and we welcome the inclusion by cOAlition S of some of our most recent feedback in their revised guidance.
Springer Nature announces transformational agreement with Qatar National Library
Springer Nature and Qatar National Library have announced a three-year agreement that combines reading access and open access (OA) publishing in a single arrangement.
PLOS Announces Published Peer Review Option
PLOS today announced that all its journals will offer authors the option to publish their peer review history alongside their accepted manuscript.
ScienceOpen and Tsinghua University Press partner to increase impact of Chinese research
The discovery platform ScienceOpen is partnering with Tsinghua University Press (TUP) to contextualize and promote Chinese research within an interactive research environment.
Knowledge Unlatched and partners launch Open Research Library
Free access to scientific content is often limited due to the fragile technical infrastructure around it: content is stored in a variety of versions at various locations and without any uniform search functionalities.
Springer Nature seeks views on new approach aimed at accelerating the transition to open...
In a blog published today, Springer Nature sets out a new approach to research publishing with the goal of increasing the demand from authors to immediately publish their research open access (OA) and growing the supply of journals able to publish OA, potentially enabling even highly selective journals such as Nature to transition to OA.