"Pledge to Open" Aims to Publish 70 Open Access Books on Global Issues Through Innovative Collective Funding Pilot
Posted 01 August 2023
Open Advances will encompass a range of disciplines, focus on global challenges, and unlock Open Access by never charging authors a fee to publish
Posted 04 July 2023
Using the same infrastructure that powers ITHAKA's nonprofit services JSTOR and Portico, institutions can now increase the reach and usefulness of their local digital collections, secure access for generations to come and further the mission they share with one another and ITHAKA to improve access to knowledge worldwide.
Posted 04 July 2023
The Global Access Program (GAP) is designed to increase access to and adoption of PID services and infrastructure for communities beyond the Global North.
Posted 07 March 2023
The Sustainable Development Knowledge Cooperative is being launched in partnership with Impact Science, a brand of Cactus Communications (CACTUS).
Posted 07 March 2023
The King Salman Center for Disability Research (KSCDR) joined ScienceOpen in January 2023, increasing the content available in disability studies by adding hundreds of articles, books, and book chapters on its new collection.
Posted 07 February 2023
JSTOR, part of the non-profit ITHAKA, and a cohort of leading university presses announced Path to Open, a program to support the open access publication of new groundbreaking scholarly books that bring diverse perspectives and research to millions of people.
Posted 07 February 2023
At the 2019 Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) conference, Judy Verses, then Executive Vice President, Research, Wiley Inc., announced that Wiley had signed a partnership agreement with Projekt DEAL. At this year's APE conference, Irina Sens, Deputy Director, Head of Library Operations, German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), reported on "After the DEAL," an assessment of progress and a suggestion of possible ways forward.
Posted 07 February 2023
Health Open Research expands the former AMRC publishing platform to open up medical research globally
Posted 06 December 2022
CHORUS announced on 21 November 2022 that it will create a Preprint Dashboard and Reporting Service to identify related funders, datasets, reuse licenses, ORCID identifiers, and links to published articles on publisher sites and government public access repositories.
Posted 06 December 2022
The capability for scite users to ask research questions in plain language and get answers directly from the full text of research articles is the premise of scite's new "Ask a Question" feature.
Posted 06 December 2022
Publishing houses plan to cooperate to help accelerate the transformation towards open access and research
Posted 01 November 2022
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine lets you see what websites used to look like but it can only do that if volunteers actively save those sites and pages. Gary Price explains how to do that.
Posted 04 October 2022
In an 8 page memo titled "Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research", issued on 25 August 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy directed federal agencies to begin adopting policies that would make taxpayer-funded research free and accessible to the general public.
Posted 06 September 2022
On 13 June 2022, OCLC filed suit against Clarivate PLC and its subsidiaries, Clarivate Analytics (US) LLP, Ex Libris, and ProQuest in the United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio.
Posted 05 July 2022
A new partnership between IOP Publishing and Get Full Text Research aims to make access to information easier for researchers.
Posted 05 April 2022
The integration of Scopus data will support the monitoring and evaluation of Germany's transition towards open access.
Posted 05 April 2022
Article Galaxy Scholar (AGS) offers a one-stop solution to connect end users to Open Access articles.
Posted 01 February 2022
The pilot, a collaboration with the publishers in an attempt to help researchers find and access content more easily, is intended to last between four and six months, with articles appearing in search and browse lists. The GetFTR button will allow authorized users to access the full text of articles.
Posted 01 February 2022
CABI launched searchRxiv (pronounced ‘search archive'), its new open access platform. The website is designed to let researchers report, store and share their searches, thus helping with the review and re-use of existing searches to make research quicker and easier.
Posted 05 January 2022
ResearchGate and Rockefeller University Press (RUP) completed the first phase of their content syndication pilot partnership, in line with other agreements between publishers and ResearchGate.
Posted 07 December 2021
COPIM funding pilot for OA monographs gathers steam
Posted 02 November 2021
The latest MUSE in Focus: Humanity's "Code Red" on Climate Change is now available
Posted 05 October 2021
The United Nations' Dag Hammarskjöld Library hosted a world-class, virtual Open Science Conference over 3 half-days, 21-23 July 2021. Designed to include speakers from around the globe, its tag line was "From Tackling the Pandemic to Addressing Climate Change". The host for the event, Thanos Giannakopolous, Chief Librarian at the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, kept the conference on an even keel, despite a few technical hiccups.
Posted 03 August 2021
Two Google initiatives over the past few months resonate particularly well with information professionals. Google Scholar added a "Public access" section to track and manage public access mandates and Google Search can now detect when a topic is rapidly evolving and warn people to check back late.
Posted 06 July 2021