On the heels of its recent arrangement with PLOS, the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) has entered into a second contract to bundle the cost of journal subscriptions and Open Access (OA) publishing, this time with publisher, Cambridge University Press. Under this agreement, UI corresponding authors can publish their journal articles OA and free of cost to them, in any of Cambridge’s journals.* These articles can then be read by anyone, anywhere,Continue reading “UI authors can now make Cambridge articles Open Access for free”
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Big Ten Academic Alliance Signs new PLOS Deal
If you’ve ever considered publishing Open Access (OA) in PLOS Biology or PLOS Medicine, it just got a lot more affordable. The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), of which University of Iowa is a member, just signed a three-year deal with the OA mega-journal publisher, PLOS, allowing corresponding authors at any Big 10 university to publish in these two journals without any cost to the author. This agreementContinue reading “Big Ten Academic Alliance Signs new PLOS Deal”