Der US-amerikanische Wissenschaftsverlag Wiley kauft den Open-Access-Vermittlungsdienst Knowledge Unlatched. Die Übernahme steht für einen größeren Trend: Großverlage versuchen zunehmend, Open Access zu kommerzialisieren und neue Geschäftsfelder zu entwickeln.
[Update 2015-09-19: since writing this, I notice my open access article has now been unpaywalled at Wiley’s site. No-one from Wiley has reached out to me to explain how, why, or when this happened. No compensation has been offered, nor any apology. I note that all the other articles in the special section, which should also be open access (CC BY) are still on sale, behind a paywall.
More than 300 Cochrane Systematic Reviews, funded under the 2007 and 2010 UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Programme Grant programmes, are available on Europe PMC. This has been a collaborative project between Cochrane, Wiley, and the Europe PMC team, and has enabled us to make this subset of full-text reviews available to access for free via Europe PMC with the functionality that papers in Europe PMC enjoy.
Wiley have announced the launch of Wiley Open Access, a new publishing programme of open access journals. The first three titles – Microbiology Open, Brain and Behavior and Ecology and Evolution – will all launch later in 2011.
The good news is that the merger of Blackwell's digital content with that of Wiley's has not affected the DOIs, which is exactly as you'd expect, and is a nice demonstration of the power of identifiers that use indirection (although there was a time when Wiley was offline).For example, the article identified by doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2003.00274.x had the URLhttp://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2003.00274.x and now has