Hindawi and Maverick announce open access publishing services collaboration - February 15, 2021
Maverick Publishing Specialists and Hindawi Limited have recently entered into an open access publishing collaboration whereby a dedicated team of Maverick specialists and Hindawi's Publishing Partnerships business division will work collaboratively to broaden awareness of Hindawi's range of publishing services amongst journal publishers. … Read More
South African Government places DOAJ on list of accredited journals - February 15, 2021
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) has announced its inclusion in the recognised list of journals, lists and indexes accepted by the South African Department of Higher Education and Training. The move represents the first time that an open access listing has been recommended to South African… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - February 15, 2021
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Mark Carden (Guest post — What should a conference cost?); Serge Horbach (How the pandemic changed editorial peer review – and why we should wonder whether that’s desirable); Alison Mudditt (Emerging from the pandemic: The future of work is now);… Read More
Springer Nature signs its first transformative agreement with CRUI-CARE - February 12, 2021
Springer Nature has signed its first transformative agreement (TA) with Conferenza dei Rettori delle Universita Italiane (CRUI-CARE), the association of Italian state and non-state universities which acts on behalf of over 90 Italian academic and research institutions. The agreement is the… Read More
Milner Library signs read and publish agreement with Cambridge University Press - February 12, 2021
Milner Library has announced a three-year open access agreement with Cambridge University Press. The deal, known as a Read and Publish agreement, allows research published by Illinois State University corresponding authors to be made open access in Cambridge’s open access and hybrid journals, without… Read More
Findings of the most comprehensive survey of publishing workforce released - February 12, 2021
The latest findings of the Publishers Association’s UK publishing workforce survey show that while publishing continues to meet its target to employ at least 50% women in senior roles within five years, there has been little progress in its other target of increasing the ethnic diversity of… Read More
