PLOS collaborates with ORCID to include credit for reviewers - June 28, 2019
PLOS has announced that its collaboration with ORCID now includes credit for reviewers. For more than five years, PLOS authors have used ORCID to make their professional lives easier. Now reviewers at PLOS can take advantage of the same benefits to track… Read More
Two new ‘read and publish’ deals drives Springer Nature’s transformative deals into double figures - June 27, 2019
Springer Nature has announced new agreements with the Bibsam consortium in Sweden and Norway’s Unit consortium, taking the number of Springer Nature’s ‘read and publish’ deals to ten, putting the publisher firmly on the path to becoming a transformative publisher. In a first for Springer Nature,… Read More
AWIS launches STEM Equity Community Platform with Elsevier’s support - June 26, 2019
The Association for Women in Science (AWIS) has announced the launch of the ADVANCE Resource and Coordination (ARC) Network Community which connects scholars and practitioners committed to equity in STEM. In support of this initiative, a href="https://www.elsevier.com/" target="_blank">Elsevier’s leading reference manager and academic social network, Mendeley,… Read More
Hindawi joins Transpose initiative - June 21, 2019
Open access publisher Hindawi has announced that all Hindawi journals are now included in the Transpose database, which brings together multiple journals’ policies on peer review, co-reviewing, and preprinting, acting as a single source of easy to access policy information for authors and publishers alike, improving… Read More
EMBO Press relaunches redesigned publications website on Atypon’s Literatum - June 21, 2019
EMBO Press has relaunched a completely redesigned publications website on Atypon’s Literatum, the scholarly publishing industry’s most widely used online publishing platform. The move to Literatum brings EMBO Press journals together on a single platform for the first time. The journals will… Read More
Elsevier makes latest climate change research freely available via Mendeley - June 20, 2019
Elsevier, the global information analytics business specialising in science and health, is making over 5,000 subscription articles on climate change freely available from across its world-leading scientific, technical and medical journals. The articles will be available to download and read for a test period on Mendeley,… Read More