Knowledge Unlatched and EBSCO Information Services partner to support libraries worldwide in their move to OA - May 27, 2020
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the international initiative for Open Access (OA), and EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) have joined forces to support libraries worldwide in their move to OA. Through cooperation they will help publishers shift paywalled subscription journals to OA publications owing to… Read More
The Company of Biologists and IReL announce Read & Publish agreement, expands global reach of Irish research - May 26, 2020
Researchers at nine institutions in Ireland can now publish an unlimited number of open access articles in leading biological science journals, immediately and at no cost to them, following a three-year Read & Publish agreement between The Company of Biologists and IReL. The new cost-neutral agreement… Read More
Kudos extends sign-up period for complimentary access to Kudos Pro - May 26, 2020
Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact, has extended the sign-up period for complimentary access to Kudos Pro, after more than 5,000 researchers signed up in the first wave. The company is providing the global academic community with complimentary access to its premium service to… Read More
Pensoft partners with ReviewerCredit to certify and reward peer review - May 26, 2020
Following recent API integration with ReviewerCredits, scholarly publisher and technology provider Pensoft has launched a pilot phase with one of its peer-reviewed, open-access journal: Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ). Reviewers, who create an account on ReviewerCredits, will automatically record their peer review contributions, which will be certified… Read More
ACS appoints Shane Snyder as editor-in-chief of ACS ES&T Water - May 26, 2020
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has named Dr. Shane Snyder of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) as the editor-in-chief of the new journal ACS ES&T Water. Water quality and sustainable water management are areas of growing concern for communities around the world.… Read More
Jisc Collections and Brill reach Transformative Agreement for UK Libraries - May 26, 2020
Jisc Collections and the international scholarly publisher Brill have reached a Transformative Agreement for 2020, which covers the SHEDL consortium as well as all other eligible UK university libraries. Under the Agreement, academics at participating institutions benefit from reading access to the… Read More
