1science Launches Products To Increase Uptake Of Open Access
Montreal startup to disrupt the scholarly, scientific and technical publishing industry.
1science, whose mission is to facilitate the flow of knowledge, launched an integrated solution...
The Triological Society and Wiley launch a new open access journal
The Triological Society and John Wiley and Sons, Inc. announced today the launch of a new open access publication, Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology. Laryngoscope Investigative...
Brill and DANS Launch a New Open Access Journal on Research Data
During International Open Access Week, Brill and Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) launched the Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences,...
Open access: A global movement
The open access (OA) movement is gaining worldwide consensus as more and more countries are joining the effort to make research freely available.
China has...
Emerald Group Publishing launches new contribution to the Open Access debate
Emerald Group Publishing is marking International Open Access Week (19-25 October) with the launch of a Special Issue on Open Access (OA) from Online...
BioMed Central becomes first publisher to implement Author Contributorship Badges
The open access publisher BioMed Central is the first publisher to pilot a new system which clearly shows exactly how each researcher contributed to...
Dove Medical Press reinstated as OASPA Members
It has been almost two years since Dove’s membership was terminated owing to concerns about the rigour of the editorial and peer review processes...
RCUK seeks feedback on good practice guidelines for open research data
Research Councils UK (RCUK), on behalf of the UK Open Research Data Forum, has today (17 August 2015) published a draft Concordat on Open...
Perceptions of open access publishing are changing for the better, a survey by Nature...
A survey of 22,000 academic researchers by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Palgrave Macmillan has found that a decreasing number of authors are concerned...
BioMed Central launches checklist for reproducibility
BioMed Central has launched a pilot checklist to improve the reproducibility of studies published in its journals.
In recent decades, the reproducibility of a large...
Springer partners with the Fields Institute to publish two open access journals
SpringerOpen is now co-publishing two journals from the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences: Mathematics-in-Industry Case Studies and Fields Mathematics Education Journal. Both...
Cambridge University Press prevents double-dipping in new Open Access subscription policy
Cambridge University Press is launching a new policy to prevent charging both authors and subscribers for Open Access journal content (so-called double-dipping).
Matthew Day, Head...