Gates Foundation to require immediate free access for journal articles
Breaking new ground for the open-access movement, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a major funder of global health research, plans to require that...
Elsevier Announces the Launch of Open Access Journal: EBioMedicine
Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. Two of its leading brands, Cell Press and The Lancet,...
Corporate interest is a problem for research into open-access publishing, says NPG/ Palgrave Macmillan...
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and its sister company, Palgrave Macmillan, recently conducted a survey, which notes that the open-access movement, which aims...
Thieme expands open access publishing program, unveils Ultrasound International Open journal
Medical and scientific publisher Thieme has announced the latest addition to their open access publishing program, Ultrasound International Open (UIO). Edited by an international...
Palgrave Pivot publishes first open access title
Palgrave Macmillan has published its first open access Palgrave Pivot title, Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to...
BSHS and Cambridge launch new open access history of science journal
Cambridge University Press and the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) are pleased to announce their partnership to launch a new, peer-reviewed,...
Brill launches Brill Open Social Sciences
Following an earlier announcement Brill is now proud to open Brill Open Social Sciences – An International Journal for submissions. Brill Open Social Sciences...
Access to finance biggest obstacle for innovation, says TISP, Frankfurt Book Fair survey
Access to finance is biggest obstacle for innovation / Growing interest in international cooperation
Germany, 8/10/2014 – Innovation is of great importance to book publishers:...
International Open Access Week shines spotlight on increasing the impact of scientific research
Hundreds of events will take place across the globe to highlight the power that Open Access has to increase the impact of scientific and...
Open access to survey of 30,000 authors by Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Palgrave Macmillan are making data from their Author Insights survey publicly available for the first time as part of...
Royal Society Open Science launches on HighWire
The Royal Society is proud to announce the launch of Royal Society Open Science, a new open access journal publishing high quality original research...
LIBER calls on European Commission to take measures towards enabling Open Science
On the eve of the closing of the European Consultation on Science 2.0, LIBER has issued a statement both welcoming the Consultation as a...