New updates on Plan S
Learned society publishers will accelerate their transition to Open Access (OA). Two members of cOAlition S, Wellcome Trust and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) are working with the Association of…
Frontiers and Yale University have formed an OA agreement
Yale University has shown immense support to the community of research scholars by making their research work available as open access. In order strengthen this support further; Yale University Library…
WHO joins Plan S
The World Health Organization (WHO) has a joined a group of science research backers who are supporting open access publishing called Plan S. WHO’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said ‘As…
Elsevier introduces Open Access for Physics
Elsevier is initiating an innovative open access journal spanning all the fundamental and applied fields of physics. The Editorial Board will be a collection of the existing editors of Elsevier’s…
Open access: A healthy practice for the scientific community
Paywalls, which limit access to content without a paid subscription, block access to scientific research. The Business of Scholarship exposed that even the largest academic publisher, Elsevier, regularly has a…
UC fights for open access to research
The core idea of open access is the basis of its key advantage; the articles are freely available for anyone who wishes to read them. For authors, publishing open access…
UC’s conflict with the Reed Elsevier: the future of information is at threat
The clash between the University of California and Reed Elsevier, the world’s leading publisher of academic journals, can seem almost trivial. UC is paying almost $11 million this year for…
Elsevier and Jisc hook up on open access acquiescence
Jisc and Elsevier have signed a commitment to help institutions implement the open access eligibility criteria for the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF). Using Elsevier’s ScienceDirect article and journal-level metadata,…
Scholars seek open access journal deal
200 German institutions and libraries are boycotting the most renowned journal publisher Elsevier to secure fair pricing and open access to academic journals. The coalition started the process under the…
Cancers an open access journal reaches the 1000 articles mark
MDPI's open access oncology journal, Cancers published more than 1000 articles and reviews from its establishment in 2009 till date. It is very soon expected to receive Journal Citation Reports…