The Big Ten Academic Alliance and DOAJ announce collective action agreement - February 19, 2021
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) have announced a three-year collective action agreement that provides multi-year support for DOAJ from all fifteen member libraries. DOAJ indexes and promotes quality, peer-reviewed open access journals from across the… Read More
The Royal Society of Chemistry announces Read & Publish agreement with CSIRO - February 19, 2021
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced a new Read & Publish deal with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the first such agreement with a partner in Australia. The agreement will initially run as a one-year pilot, with the opportunity… Read More
New report details impact of proposed Open Access policy on the UK’s research ecosystem - February 18, 2021
The economic impact of the potential new Open Access (OA) policy from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is detailed in a new report. The report, produced by FTI Consulting for the Publishers Association, assesses the impact of the policy on the UK’s research ecosystem… Read More
Wolters Kluwer pediatric nursing textbook recognised as subject category winner in 2021 PROSE Awards - February 18, 2021
Clinical technology and evidence-based solutions provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that Pediatric Nursing: A Case-Based Approach, 1st Edition, is a Subject Category Winner in the 2021 PROSE Awards. Authored by Catherine Gannon Tagher and Lisa Marie Knapp, the book won for the subject Nursing and Allied… Read More
NISO calls on volunteers to join ‘Content Profile/ Linked Document’ Working Group - February 18, 2021
Voting Members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved a new project, Interchange of Academic, Research, and Professional Content, Data, and Semantics, which is intended to follow an ANSI/NISO standardization track. NISO is inviting volunteers to join the soon-to-be-formed Working Group. This Working Group… Read More
Oxford University Press and Jisc announce transformative ‘Read and Publish’ agreement - February 18, 2021
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) and education and research not-for-profit, Jisc, have reached a comprehensive ‘Read and Publish’ agreement. The new agreement will provide UK universities with access to OUP’s journal collection and will allow authors at participating institutions to publish 100%… Read More
