Interview: AIP Publishing CEO John Haynes offers thoughts on industry, organisation as he retires from post - June 1, 2020
For the past 11 years, John Haynes had a guiding hand in the publishing evolution of the American Institute of Physics and AIP Publishing. As the CEO of AIP Publishing for the last seven years, Haynes took on the challenge of transforming… Read More
Oxford University Press and National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences announce first Read & Publish deal in China - June 1, 2020
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) and the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSLC) have announced a landmark new Read & Publish agreement, the first of its kind in Mainland China. Covering 26 of the institutions of CAS, the three-year deal is the… Read More
Pensoft to publish the paleontology and geobiology journal Zitteliana on behalf of SNSB - June 1, 2020
Scholarly publisher and technology provider Pensoft has announced that the scholarly peer-reviewed, open-access journal on paleontology and geobiology, Zitteliana, will be published on the technologically advanced scholarly publishing platform ARPHA. The move follows a recent contract between the State Natural History Collection… Read More
OA Switchboard initiative – progress report May 2020 - June 1, 2020
Open Access (OA) output is growing year-on-year and increasingly, funders and institutions are paying for OA centrally. OA business models are becoming ever more diverse, some with or without individual publication fees, some through agreements with publishers. Meanwhile, funders and institutions are expanding their requirements about… Read More
Open Preservation Foundation endorses TRUST principles for digital repositories - June 1, 2020
The Open Preservation Foundation has endorsed the TRUST principles for digital repositories. Following on from several months of RDA consultation and discussion within the digital repository community, a set of guiding principles have been developed to facilitate best practice in trustworthy data… Read More
AGU appoints Randy Fiser as next CEO and executive director - June 1, 2020
AGU, an international nonprofit association that advances Earth and space sciences, has announced Randy Fiser as next CEO and executive director, effective August 17, 2020. Fiser is passionate about AGU’s mission and vision, has a demonstrated ability to creatively lead organisations and shares AGU’s commitment… Read More
