PLOS ONE publishes its first Coronavirus-related paper - March 23, 2020
Open Access and Open Science are critical, especially in times of crisis. The COVID-19 outbreak shows how important it is for medical professionals, scientific experts, and every member of the public to have immediate access to the latest science. Equal access to the latest research can assuage public fears or… Read More
COVID-19: AIP Publishing enables free access to content on Scitation - March 23, 2020
AIP Publishing, a not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, is making their content freely available to scientists who are impacted, to support global research during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientists and students in affected regions can now register on Scitation.org to activate free full-text access to… Read More
Kortext and Jisc partner with textbook publishers to launch free student e-textbook programme to give university students and staff access to learning resources - March 23, 2020
With the unprecedented impact on higher education (HE) from the coronavirus outbreak, Kortext, the UK’s digital textbook platform, in conjunction with Jisc, is launching a nationwide programme to ensure all 2.4 million university students and 217,000 academic staff have access to their key learning resources during… Read More
ACS launches virtual platform for sharing research from Philadelphia national meeting - March 23, 2020
Attendees whose abstracts were accepted for the now-cancelled spring ACS national meeting in Philadelphia will be able to share their posters and presentations through SciMeetings, a virtual science-sharing platform developed by ACS Publications in collaboration with other ACS divisions. The platform will be fully open access… Read More
Taylor & Francis’ new microsite to provide full access to breaking COVID-19 research - March 23, 2020
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has published a new microsite that aggregates and organises all recently published COVID-19 research in one easy to navigate portal, including all relevant research articles and book chapters. All breaking research relating to COVID-19 continues to be freely accessible in support… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - March 23, 2020
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Alison Muddit (Building Your Remote Workforce: Including Tips & Tricks for Social Distancing); Kanishka Gupta (Could the coronavirus pandemic lock down Indian publishing for some time?); Rachel John (JSTOR’s paywall is still alive, but it’s trying to score brownie points… Read More
