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
Royal Society Publishing set to launch seminar series across their journals portfolio - March 7, 2023
Royal Society Publishing is launching their first flagship seminar series in Evolution and Ecology. The series will cover compelling new research in the field with speakers and topics sourced from recent articles published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B as well as other… Read More
More institutions join F1000’s Japan Institutional Gateway, open research is expanding significantly across Japan - March 3, 2023
The Tokai University, Tsukuba University of Technology and Utsunomiya University have signed up as affiliates of F1000’s Japan Institutional Gateway (JIG), following the lead of the University of Tsukuba. These agreements enable researchers from these affiliated institutions to… Read More
FASEB journals provide researchers with SciScore tool to improve rigor and reproducibility - March 3, 2023
FASEB has a new tool available for researchers to improve the rigor and reproducibility of science submitted to FASEB journals. An automated tool, SciScore, is now integrated into the journals’ submission system, and provides key recommendations and practical steps researchers can take to improve the rigor and… Read More
Dr. Joseph K. Lim appointed Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Liver Disease - March 3, 2023
Dr. Joseph K. Lim, professor of medicine; vice chief of hepatology, Section of Digestive Diseases; and director of clinical hepatology, has been selected as the next editor-in-chief of Clinical Liver Disease (CLD), an open-access multimedia journal of the American Association for the Study of… Read More