ACS signs first North American ‘read and publish’ agreement with Louisiana State University – February 25, 2020
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Louisiana State University (LSU) have announced a transformative open access agreement. The agreement provides researchers at LSU with full access to ACS journals and allows for financial support for corresponding authors at the university to… Read More
SAGE launches new portal to streamline open access publishing process – February 25, 2020
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced the launch of a new portal that enables authors, consortia, libraries, and funders to manage the open access publishing workflow. Named the SAGE Open Access Portal, the platform currently supports SAGE Choice, the publisher’s hybrid Open Access (OA) publishing option,… Read More
Three learned society publishers to work with EIFL to explore OA agreements with publishers and library consortia in developing and transition economies – February 25, 2020
Three learned society publishers — the European Respiratory Society, IWA Publishing, and The Company of Biologists – will work with EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) to explore whether and how OA agreements might be piloted to support a… Read More
The MIT Libraries and three universities negotiate innovative agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery – February 25, 2020
The MIT Libraries has negotiated an innovative open-access agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) that allows MIT authors to make ACM articles freely available at no cost to them. It is the libraries’ first publisher contract completed under the principles… Read More
Kudos launches Research Briefings to help researchers target non-academic audiences – February 25, 2020
Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact through strategic communications management, has announced the launch of targeted Research Briefings, to assist researchers in engaging with audiences including the media, practitioners, educators, industry and policy makers. This new functionality is part of the latest release… Read More