Dutch universities are fighting to make the work published by their academics open access at no extra charge. They are also unwilling to continue to pay above-inflation cost increases for journal subscriptions. The universities have been negotiating with publishers to come up with plans to meet this goal. Click here… read more
New music and religion journal from Yale
The Yale Journal of Music and Religion will begin publishing on January 1, 2015. This will be an open access journal publishing original research on music, theory, musicology, ethnomusicology, ritual studies, religious studies, theology, and liturgical studies. For more information, please see the journal homepage: http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/yjmr/
Nature makes articles free to read
Nature Publishing Group has announced that it will make Nature and 48 other journals freely available in a read-only format. Subscribers will be able to share an article through a read-only link. Users of that link will be able to view the articles in a web browser but will not be… read more
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation OA policy
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently announced a new open access policy that will apply to all articles based on research funded in part or entirely by the Foundation. The policy will require all articles to be freely available online with a CC-BY (or equivalent) license. A 12-month embargo… read more
Brown bag lunch with UT Press
Our November event was a discussion session with John McLeod, Assistant Director, and Robert Devens, Editor-in-Chief, of the University of Texas Press. UT Press publishes about 100 books a year and about 12 journals. They are part of the second largest group of university presses – some of their peers are… read more
Interesting new journal selection tool
The Cofactor Journal Selector Tool has been developed to allow researchers to find an appropriate journal for their paper. It allows researchers to select options for subject, peer review process, open access availability, speed of publication, and a few additional miscellaneous categories. After answering the questions (a process that takes… read more
New OA publication for modern languages
Liverpool University Press has announced a new OA publishing platform for scholars in the modern languages. The platform is called Modern Languages Open and currently has sections for Chinese/Asian languages, French and Francophone, German Studies, Hispanic Studies, Italian, Portuguese and Lusophone, and Russian and Eastern European Languages. Access Modern Languages… read more
A big OA Week thank you
Thanks to everyone who showed up for OA Week 2014 events! We had great discussions about OA issues and hope we sparked some long term interest in OA. We want to thank the UT Libraries administration for providing financial support for this week. And a big thanks to everyone who… read more
OA Week 2014 Planning Group
Here is the list of the wonderful people who volunteered to plan this year’s Open Access Week events. Roxanne Bogucka Carolyn Cunningham Jee Davis Allyssa Guzman Georgia Harper Colleen Lyon Aizul Ortega Kristi Park Robyn Rosenberg Kathryn Strickland If you have questions about any of the OA Week events, please… read more
Pay-it-forward
The University of California Press will be launching a new open access journal that has a very interesting publication funding model. The journal will have a reasonable article processing charge (APC) of about $875. Of that, $250 will go into a pool that will pay editors and reviewers who work… read more
