Is Open Access Right for your Research Article?
The most crucial step in research involves the selection of an appropriate journal for an article. The research must be published in the most suitable journal for reaching the target…
BMJ launches new open access journal
BMJ launches BMJ Surgery Interventions & Health Technologies open access journal to its expanding portfolio that houses more than 70 specialist journals. BMJ SIT is dedicated to the latest advancements…
‘Plan S’ launch date delayed a year
Plan S- a debated initiative to make all government-funded research to open access publishing- has been delayed from January 2020, by a year. COAlition S – the group of funders…
Elsevier Spindle to Open-Access
Elsevier has approved its first “read-and-publish” contract with a national consortium of universities and research institutions in Norway. The Norwegian consortium has employed an agreement that rolls the two costs…
Open Access Publishing hasn’t fulfilled its promises
The New England Journal of Medicine or NEJM thinks open-access is not a good idea. An editorial published by Charlotte Haug, one of the correspondents of NEJM reports that the…
Future Science Group opens a new journal – Future Drug Discovery
Future Drug Discovery is a peer-reviewed, open access journal covering the latest breakthrough science in drug discovery, research & development. Future Drug Discovery aims to harness high failure rates, presenting…
Big pharma cuddles open-access publishers
According to a study, scientists from pharmaceutical trade publish a higher fraction of their papers open access than academics who aren’t in industry. The open-access papers published by 23 large…
UC terminates negotiation with publishing giant Elsevier
As a leader in the universal movement toward open access to publicly funded research, the University of California terminated its further subscriptions with Elsevier, the world’s largest scientific publisher. Despite…