Library community supports Subscribe to Open Mathematics journals – open access to continue in 2023 - March 8, 2023
EDP Sciences and the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI) have announced that their Subscribe to Open (S2O) model for open access publication of six mathematics journals has been successfully supported by the library community for another year, allowing the… Read More
PLOS Global Public Health celebrates 1000th paper published - March 8, 2023
PLOS Global Public Health, a journal committed to promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion in global health research, is celebrating a significant milestone. The journal has published its 1000th paper, marking a major achievement since it launched in April 2021. With a mission to address deeply entrenched… Read More
AACR names Dr. Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue as new editor-in-chief of the Journal Cancer Research - March 8, 2023
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has announced the appointment of Dr. Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue, as the editor-in-chief of Cancer Research, one of the 10 highly esteemed peer-reviewed journals published by the AACR. Established in 1941, Cancer Research is the foundational journal… Read More
Europe PMC releases annotated full-text corpus for biomedical entities and associations - March 8, 2023
Europe PMC, an open access repository of life science research, has developed a new approach to extract relevant information from research papers using machine learning algorithms. Text-mining algorithms can be used to automatically extract key concepts, relationships, and findings from scientific papers, allowing researchers to quickly identify… Read More
UK universities renew national open access deal with Frontiers - March 7, 2023
Researchers from over 160 UK universities will continue to benefit from a simplified and streamlined route to open access publishing, owing to the renewal of JISC collections’ partnership with gold open access publisher Frontiers. The initial partnership with JISC, which undertakes negotiations and… Read More
Open Science advocacy and capacity building for leadership in African Higher Education Institutions - March 7, 2023
The Association for African Universities (AAU), the Public Library of Science (PLOS), and the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) have shared the results of the first two of four regional policy workshops that they are hosting with Presidents, Vice Chancellors,… Read More
