cOAlition S: New project to review progress on transformative Open Access agreements between library consortia and smaller independent publishers The follow up to the “Society Publishers Accelerating Open access and Plan S” project cOAlition S aims to work with learned societies, libraries,…
IOP Publishing expands open access journal portfolio with the launch of Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering IOP Publishing (IOPP) has launched a new, multidisciplinary, open access (OA) journal devoted to the design, development and application of artificial neural networks and brain-inspired…
Introducing Silverchair Composer Host even more of your content on the Silverchair Platform Silverchair has announced the launch of Silverchair Composer, a market-leading new authoring product that allows publishers to bring even more of their content into a single user experience. With its…
New deal makes RIA Journals free to read and publish for IReL institutions Opening up over 200 years of scholarship and creating more The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) is pleased to announce a 2021-2023 Read and Publish agreement with IReL, the Irish e-resources licensing consortium for leading…
Institutions from five more countries join The Company of Biologists’ Read & Publish initiative We are delighted to welcome the first institutions from Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and the USA to our Read & Publish Open Access initiative. Researchers at the following…
New Editor-in-Chief for BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care Dr Mandeep Bajaj is a clinical and translational researcher in obesity and type 2 diabetes. Dr Mandeep Bajaj, a renowned expert on diabetes and endocrinology, has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Open Diabetes Research…
Physics societies unite in support of open access Major physics societies, which support physical science researchers with the publication of more than 75,000 peer-reviewed journal articles each year, have joined forces to show their commitment to open access (OA) for physics research. The group…
Publishers and funders at odds over ‘green’ open-access model Funders and others push back against complaints about article repositories from nine publishers Representatives of the funders behind the Plan S open-access initiative, and various commentators, have rejected a claim from nine academic…
BMJ partners with CoMo Consortium to help countries contain spread of COVID-19 BMJ will disseminate findings to help inform public health responses in over 40 countries Leading healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has partnered with the COVID-19 International Modelling Consortium (CoMo Consortium)…
Italy concludes first National Open Access deal for Biomedical Institutions The first National Open Access Framework in Italy for Biomedical Institutions has today been signed by the Italian consortium of Biomedical Research Libraries – Bibliosan – and the leading open access publisher,…
