SAGE and the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries agree to support Swiss Researchers
Through a new transformative agreement, SAGE Publishing and the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries expand publishing opportunities for Swiss researchers. The deal, which began on January 1, 2021 and will last through 2022, provides researchers with unlimited open access publishing rights in SAGE's over 900 hybrid journals and a discount on article publishing charges for SAGE's over 150 pure Gold Open Access journals.
Oxford University Press (OUP) and FinELib, a consortium of Finnish universities, research institutions, and public libraries, have reached an agreement for Read & Publish access to OUP's journals collection. The agreement came into effect on January 1, 2021 and lasts for 3 years.
BMJ signals its commitment to an open access future
Bibsam Consortium in Sweden, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek for German Academic Institutions, and Jisc have entered into a transitional agreement to provide researchers at member institutions the opportunity to publish all of their research articles open access in BMJ's hybrid Standard Collection journals, while providing full access to read the BMJ's journal collection.
Wellcome Open Research now becomes most used publishing venue for Wellcome funded researchers
Wellcome Open Research is now the single most used venue for Wellcome-funded researchers to publish their research findings. This has been achieved after only four years since the Platform's conception. In 2020, 292 articles were published on Wellcome Open Research, a 40% increase compared to 2019. Much of this increase was driven by researchers publishing articles related to the COVID-19 pandemic with a diverse range of content from clinical and biological through to sociological research.
COAR has announced the launch of a new project, Notify: The Repositories and Services Interoperability Project. The project builds on previous work of COAR to advance the vision first outlined in the COAR Next Generation Repositories Initiative – to position repositories as the foundation for a distributed, globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication, on top of which layers of value added services will be deployed – and further articulated in the Pubfair White Paper, which describes a distributed framework for open publishing services.
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SAGE and the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries agree to support Swiss Researchers
OUP reaches Read & Publish agreement with FinELib
BMJ signals its commitment to an open access future
COAR launches Notify Project
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online
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