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...
Wellcome Trust launches charity fund to support open access research publications
Earlier in September six medical research charities launched the Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) to cover open access, article-processing charges. Robert Kiley is Head of...
De Gruyter Open converts eight subscription journals to Open Access megajournals
Starting with volume 2015, De Gruyter Open (www.degruyteropen.com) will publish a group of eight Central European Journals now distributed in subscription model by Springer...
Nature Communications to become open access only
Nature Communications is to become the first Nature-branded open access only journal. The number one open access journal in multidisciplinary sciences*, Nature Communications is...
New open access journal npj Systems Biology and Applications
Nature Publishing Group is pleased to announce a new partnership with The Systems Biology Institute, Tokyo to launch npj Systems Biology and Applications, an...
SAGE launches new OA journal, Multiple Sclerosis Journal – Experimental, Translational and Clinical
SAGE a leading independent academic and professional publisher today launched Multiple Sclerosis Journal - Experimental, Translational and Clinical as an open access (OA) peer...
Simba Information releases Open Access Journal Publishing 2014-2017
A global campaign by scientists, librarians, research funders and universities to increase open access (OA) to scientific research has created a fast growing revenue...
SAGE launches new open access journal, Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal
Leading independent and academic publisher SAGE, today announces the launch of a new open access journal, Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal (APN).
The only scholarly publication...
Springer membership of OASPA is reinstated
As was explained in a statement on the OASPA blog in April 2014 (http://oaspa.org/statement-regarding-the-suspension-of-springers-membership-in-oaspa/), OASPA’s Membership Committee made the decision to place Springer’s membership...