FinELib and Elsevier reach agreement for subscription access and open access publishing

Amsterdam and Helsinki, January 17, 2018—The FinELib consortium and information analytics business Elsevier today signed an agreement making Elsevier’s globally published research articles available to Finnish academic institutions, while providing Finnish researches with incentives to publish open access if they so choose.

SAGE Publishing expands data offering with the purchase of Data-Planet 

Los Angeles, CA, January 17, 2018—SAGE Publishing has today announced the purchase of Data-Planet, a statistical multidisciplinary data repository that has application in academic libraries, public libraries, government and commercial markets.

Digital Science Launches Dimensions: a Next-generation Research and Discovery Platform Linking 124 Million Documents, Providing Free Search and Citation Data Across 86 Million Articles

Boston, MA, USA and London, UK, January 15, 2018—Ground-breaking research information database links publications, grants, policy, data and metrics for the first time.

Scripps Translational Science Institute, Nature Research Launch Open-Access Digital Medicine Journal

La Jolla, CA, January 15, 2018—The emerging field of digital medicine has the potential to transform healthcare on a global scale. Pioneering studies are being conducted to generate the clinical evidence necessary to drive widespread adoption of digital health solutions, both within a clinical setting and by consumers.

Wiley, the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Announce Combined Open Access and Subscription Agreement 

"The agreement has shown that constructive cooperation between publishers, libraries and funding organisations can lead to a result that benefits everyone, but especially researchers. The FWF hopes that this example will be followed by more publishers soon in order to increase openness of results of publicly funded research."

HOBOKEN, N.J, Monday, February 12, 2018 10:30 am EST—John Wiley and Sons Inc. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb), the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) today announced a three-year combined open access publication and subscription agreement. This transformative agreement will provide researchers and students at 22 institutions affiliated with KEMÖ access to all subscription journals published by Wiley. Corresponding authors from KEMÖ-affiliated institutions will also be able to publish unlimited open access articles in Wiley’s hybrid journals at no charge to the author.