Journals

The Company of Biologists has signed a new three-year read-and-publish agreement with Jisc .

Open science is important, but it is also hard. Unfortunately, 'hard' has often meant that scientific quality checks are both slow and inadequate, falling in an unsatisfactory middle ground between two opposing goals

Cambridge University Press has launched a new publishing model to provide an outlet for world-class research and writing that sits outside the traditional formats of book or journal article

Libraries are getting access to thousands of BBC academic titles following an expanded agreement between ProQuest and BBC Learning

IntechOpen has become the first fully open access book publisher to implement Altmetric Badges for Books

A partnership between the Next Einstein Forum and Elsevier will see the creation of a pan-African, peer-reviewed, open access publishing journal

The re-launched Emerald Publishing Journal – Information and Learning Science – will be co-edited by two leading scholars, Dr Samuel Kai Wah Chu and Dr Rebecca B. Reynolds

IOP Publishing has launched three high-impact open access journals

SAGE Publishing has launched a new journal focused on Chinese writing systems in partnership with the Center for the Study and Application of Chinese Characters

Learned society owned publisher EDP Sciences has announced the launch of a new multi- and inter-disciplinary open access journal: 4open