NIH launches preprint pilot to test NIH-funded research searchable preprints - June 10, 2020
The National Institutes of Health is launching the first phase of a pilot project designed to test the viability of making preprints resulting from NIH-funded research searchable in PubMed Central (PMC), a widely-used digital archive of full-text articles and, by extension, discoverable… Read More
Copyright Clearance Center to host virtual Town Hall on Transformative Agreements - June 10, 2020
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, is presenting a virtual Town Hall on June 18, 2020, to review the latest developments in Transformative Agreements and foster a discussion on how innovation is answering… Read More
PLOS and Carnegie Mellon University announce APC-free OA publishing agreement - June 9, 2020
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) have announced a two-year open access agreement that allows researchers to publish in PLOS' suite of journals without incurring article processing charges (APC). This partnership brings together two organisations that believe… Read More
Jisc and AoC launch project on shaping digital future of further education and skills - June 9, 2020
Jisc, the UK’s education and technology not-for-profit, has partnered with the Association of Colleges (AoC) to launch the project on shaping the digital future of further education (FE) and skills. Jisc will bring together college leaders, teachers, students, sector bodies and edtech… Read More
Europe PMC to take in full text of COVID-19 preprints - June 9, 2020
In this pandemic, researchers have responded by publishing results rapidly, often through preprints. In fact, up to half of the publications in Europe PMC on COVID-19 are preprints rather than peer-reviewed journal articles. Currently, the full text of these preprints are scattered as PDFs on preprint… Read More
Aries Systems partners with AAMC to enhance publishers’ disclosure collection process - June 9, 2020
Aries Systems Corporation, a scholarly publishing technology workflow solutions provider, has announced a collaboration with Convey®, the global disclosure system provided by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), to help publishers enhance their current disclosure collection process. Journals often see many discrepancies from one… Read More
