DOAJ announces new selection criteria
The Directory of Open Access Journals is delighted to announce new selection criteria and hereby announces that these new criteria are open for public comment until July...
SPARC Open Access Meeting 2014 to Focus on Convergence
The next SPARC Open Access Meeting, themed “Convergence,” will convene March 3–4, 2014, in Kansas City. The past year has seen growing momentum in...
PeerJ passes one year anniversary
Today (June 12th, 2013) PeerJ celebrated the one year anniversary of their original announcement. PeerJ was announced on June 12th 2012 and opened for...
F1000Research joins OASPA and COPE, and is listed in DOAJ and SHERPA/RoMEO
F1000Research is delighted to announce the journal’s membership of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and...
IEEE Now Provides Open-Access Option for All Peer-Reviewed Journals
IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization, today announced that all IEEE-owned peer-reviewed journals now offer open-access (OA) publishing options, the latest sign of...
SAGE and AERA to Launch Open Access Journal
SAGE and the American Educational Research Association (AERA) announced today that they will launch AERA Open, an online, peer-reviewed journal that will be freely available to...
Copyright Clearance Center Joins Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization and leading provider of licensing and Open Access (OA) solutions, has joined the Open Access Scholarly...
IOP Publishing and the National Institute for Materials Science announce new three year agreement...
IOP Publishing has today announced a new three year agreement with the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) for the continued publication of the...
PLOS Appoints Elizabeth Marincola as Chief Executive Officer
PLOS is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Chief Executive Officer. Attracting one of publishing’s most inspiring leaders, PLOS has named Elizabeth...
ARL Sponsors Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP)
ARL today joined major sponsors Public Library of Science (PLOS), Wellcome Trust, and Google to launch the Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP), which recognizes...
SPIE ‘gold’ open access program meets new needs of UK authors — and others
An open access publishing program recently adopted by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, supports the needs of authors seeking open access...
F1000Research drives evolution of open science publishing
F1000Research, an Open Access lifesciences journal launched in January 2013, has pioneered a uniquely fast and transparent Open Science Publishing model enabling research papers...