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Information Today May 20, 2013 |
UNESCO Publications to Be Free Under Open License Following a decision by the Executive Board in April, UNESCO became the first member of the U.N. to adopt such an open access policy for its publications. |
Information Today March 5, 2007 |
Nature Publishing Group Introduces Networking Site for Scientists Nature Publishing Group just released Nature Network, a new free online networking site for scientists worldwide. |
Information Today July 3, 2014 |
Taylor & Francis Group Releases OA Survey Results The survey showed that positive attitudes toward open access increased since last year. |
Information Today April 7, 2015 |
Springer and Jisc Work Toward Sustainable OA Publishing Springer Science+Business Media and Jisc reached an agreement that helps U.K. scientists comply with multiple funders' open access policies. |
Information Today December 2, 2014 |
Macmillan Science and Education Grants Access to NPG Journals Macmillan Science and Education will allow subscribers to 49 Nature Publishing Group journals to share the full text of articles with other (non-subscribing) researchers around the world. |
Information Today October 30, 2014 |
PCG Survey Reveals That Libraries Provide OA Funds Almost 25% of respondents noted that libraries offer funding for article processing charges), some of which comes from existing materials budgets. |
Information Today February 24, 2015 |
NPG Introduces Double-Blind Peer-Review Option Nature Publishing Group announced that in March 2015, authors will be able to opt for double-blind peer review -- wherein both the authors and the reviewers are anonymous. |
Information Today January 27, 2015 Marydee Ojala |
Springer and Macmillan Poised to Merge On Jan. 15, 2015, there was a disruption in the field of academic scientific publishing. |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2013 Houghton & Swan |
Planting the Green Seeds for a Golden Harvest: Comments and Clarifications on "Going for Gold" This short paper sets out the main conclusions of our work, which was designed to explore the overall costs and benefits of Open Access for research results, as well as identify the most cost-effective policy basis for transitioning to OA at national and institutional levels. |
Information Today December 12, 2013 |
Palgrave Macmillan Takes New Step Toward OA Palgrave Macmillan joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, a trade organization that represents the interests of global open access journal publishers in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines. |
Information Today September 17, 2013 |
CCC Steps Up Its OA Efforts Copyright Clearance Center joined the U.K.'s Gold Open Access Infrastructure program as the next step in its ongoing efforts to improve open access standards. |
Information Today September 12, 2013 Barbara Quint |
OA: Teetering Toward the Tipping Point Librarians were probably among the first groups to completely and ardently advocate OA. we all know that open access will achieve its tipping point and replace print publications and, more importantly, traditional print publishers. |
Information Today September 21, 2009 |
New EBSCO Database for the Food Industry Food Science Source includes hundreds of publications, food industry and market reports, and benchmarks and best practices. |
Information Today December 19, 2013 |
UNESCO Broadens OA Policy UNESCO introduced an open access repository that makes more than 300 online books, reports, and articles in about 12 languages freely available on UNESCO's website. |
Information Today January 19, 2012 |
Springer Open Choice Adopts Creative Commons Attribution License In 2004, the hybrid OA option Open Choice was launched at Springer with the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. Springer's Open Choice option allows authors to publish their articles with OA for the majority of its subscription-based journals. |
Information Today November 2004 Tom Hogan |
The Fall 2004 ASIDIC Meeting The fall 2004 meeting of the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC) examined the issues surrounding open access (OA) publishing. Many questions were raised and many views expressed, but few conclusions were drawn. |
Chemistry World October 2, 2006 Gill & Sanderson |
RSC to Launch Open Access Hybrid Model In a move to keep RSC publishing competitive, authors of RSC journal papers can now choose to have their research freely available the moment it is published -- for a fee. |
Information Today November 25, 2014 Nancy K. Herther |
Paperity Hopes to Create a Comprehensive Index of Open Literature Paperity, "The first multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers," launched on Oct. 8. |
Information Today April 19, 2012 |
OAPEN Launches Beta Version of Directory of Open Access Books OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) announced the launch of the beta version of Directory of Open Access Books, a discovery service for peer-reviewed books published under an open access license. |
Information Today January 2, 2014 |
Nature Publishing Group Announces OA Journal Nature Publishing Group agreed to co-publish Human Genome Variation, a peer-reviewed, open access journal, with the Japan Society of Human Genetics. |
Information Today July 16, 2013 |
Springer Renews Its Commitment to Open Access Springer Science+Business Media announced that the influence of its open access journals has increased over the past year. |
Information Today October 23, 2014 |
SAGE Publications Takes Over Business and Economy Journal SAGE Publications acquired Competition & Change: The Journal of Global Business and Political Economy from Maney Publishing. |
Information Today January 15, 2015 |
CCC Hosts Discussion About OA Practices Copyright Clearance Center published a report announcing its findings from a roundtable discussion with U.K.-based institutions and U.K. and U.S. publishers about managing open access fees on a large scale. |
Information Today November 13, 2008 |
Palgrave Macmillan to Launch New Ebook Platform Palgrave Macmillan will launch its own ebook platform, Palgrave Connect in January 2009. The platform will offer libraries a flexible approach to building an ebook collection in the humanities, business, and social sciences. |
Information Today April 22, 2014 |
Thomson Reuters and Cornell Institute Create Research Portal Thomson Reuters partnered with Cornell University's Emerging Markets Institute at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management to power an academic research portal using the Web of Science platform. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2009 Mueller et al. |
OA Network: An Integrative Open Access Infrastructure for Germany This article describes concepts, development, and implementation of an overall Open Access infrastructure for Germany. |
Information Today September 19, 2013 |
ICAR Transitions to OA The Indian Council of Agricultural Research recently joined the open access movement. It announced its intentions to implement an academic and research OA policy during the next 3 years. |
Information Today August 2006 Robin Peek |
The Impact of Open Choice The findings of a study released last month reveal that articles that are published by the author-pays open access approach are cited more often than those that are published in the same journal and that are publicly released 6 months after publication. |
Information Today September 17, 2015 |
Springer Provides Austrian Researchers With OA Options Springer and the Austrian Academic Consortium finalized a 2-year Springer Compact agreement to combine reading and open access publishing in one annual fee. |
Information Today October 14, 2014 |
Spaceflight Journal Blasts Off Nature Publishing Group and Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute announced a new open access journal, npj Microgravity, which will accept submissions in late October. |
Information Today November 10, 2015 |
Google Scholar Indexes OAPEN-Hosted Monographs The OAPEN Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes the publication of academic OA books and provides a platform for the full-text dissemination of OA titles. |
Information Today October 31, 2013 |
LPC Debuts Library Publishing Directory The Library Publishing Coalition published the first edition of its Library Publishing Directory, which provides an overview of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2012 Stevan Harnad |
United Kingdom's Open Access Policy Urgently Needs a Tweak The UK government, under the joint influence of the publisher lobby and short-sighted advice from Open Access (OA) advocates, has decided to make all UK research output OA within two years by diverting funds from UK research. |
Information Today July 28, 2015 |
SAGE Brings Together Neuroscience and Education Scholarship SAGE Publications rolled out a new open access journal, Educational Neuroscience, which covers developing brain-behavior relationships and how they impact the science of learning, academic skill acquisition, and educational practices |
Information Today November 21, 2011 |
Palgrave Macmillan Launches New Search Platform Integration This allows easier discovery of similar scholarly content across its publishing program. |
Information Today March 12, 2015 |
University of California Organizations Partner for Publishing Workflow Management System The University of California Press and the California Digital Library received a $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a content and workflow management system for publishing open access monographs. |
Information Today September 3, 2013 |
OA Collection Welcomes Frontiers in Energy Research Frontiers, now part of Nature Publishing Group, introduced Frontiers in Energy Research as the newest addition to its open access journal collection. |
Information Today June 16, 2015 |
SAGE Announces Two New Journals SAGE Publications introduced Cardiovascular and Thoracic Open, an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal for surgeons and other medical professionals. |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2011 Vera Munch |
Open Access: Shaking the Basics of Academic Publishing Although open access is not a new concept, the all-embracing structural upheaval caused by digital technology is still turning academic publishing upside down. |
Information Today April 7, 2015 |
SAGE Adopts CCC's RightsLink for Open Access SAGE Publications will use Copyright Clearance Center's RightsLink for Open Access platform to manage its open access publications' article processing charges |
Information Today November 18, 2010 |
U.S. GPO Content Available Through EBSCO Discovery Service EDS Customers will be able to search for federal records from the Government Printing Office's Catalog of U.S. Government Publications. |
Information Today August 22, 2013 |
Brill Adopts OA Model for Books Brill, a Netherlands-based publisher in the humanities, social sciences, international law, and biology fields, is now publishing open access books. |
Information Today October 2004 Richard Poynder |
Poynder On Point: Ten Years After A decade after professor Stevan Harnad posted what he called a "subversive proposal" to the Electronic Journals mailing list at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, open access (OA) is now threatening to overturn the $6 billion scholarly publishing industry and is forcing even the largest publishers against the ropes. |
Information Today October 27, 2015 Abby Clobridge |
Open Access Week 2015: 'Open for Collaboration' Libraries, universities, research institutes, publishers, research funding agencies, and individual OA advocates used the opportunity to talk, tweet, and share thoughts, success stories, and lessons learned about OA, open data, and open education. |
Information Today March 13, 2014 |
Thieme Introduces OA Platform It aggregates Thieme's OA articles on a single platform that is permanently available online for free. |
Information Today July 12, 2010 |
EBSCO Publishing Introduces Energy & Power Source The database is designed to support the informational needs of energy and power industry professionals at all levels as well as academic researchers. |
Information Today September 30, 2014 |
ingentaconnect Updates Go Live Publishing Technology, PLC launched a new interface for and enhanced the features of its ingentaconnect scholarly publications resource. |
Information Today September 17, 2012 |
EBSCO Releases 2013 Serials Price Projections Report This report, based on surveys of a wide range of publishers and reviews of historical serials pricing data, provides serials price projections that will assist information professionals as they make budgeting decisions for the upcoming renewal season. |
Information Today September 17, 2012 |
Diverse OA Coalition Issues New Guidelines to Make Research Freely Available The recommendations were developed by leaders of the open access movement, which has worked for the past decade to provide the public with unrestricted, free access to scholarly research -- much of which is publicly funded. |
Information Today May 29, 2014 |
NPG and IECAS Plan New OA Journal Nature Publishing Group teamed up with the Institute of Electronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to launch an online open access journal beginning publication in March 2015. |