Agreement between Springer Nature and the CAUL to be Australia’s largest Transformative Agreement to date - October 21, 2021
Following Springer Nature’s successful transformative agreements (TAs) in Europe and North America, the company has announced its first TA in the Asia-Pacific region. The agreement with the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) will give members of the CAUL consortium the ability to publish their research open… Read More
IOP Publishing joins I4OA to make abstracts openly available - October 21, 2021
IOP Publishing (IOPP) has joined the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA), a collaboration between publishers, infrastructure organisations, librarians, and researchers to promote the open availability of abstracts. IOPP will deposit abstracts of their scholarly communications with Crossref, the not-for-profit Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registration agency bringing… Read More
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Budapest University of Technology and Economics contributes to the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global database - October 21, 2021
The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) has included its graduate works in the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalTM database, the leading source of emerging research from universities around the world. The ProQuest database will include existing and future PhD… Read More
Michigan Publishing and ScienceOpen announce new partnership - October 21, 2021
ScienceOpen has announced a new partnership with Michigan Publishing, starting with the University of Michigan Press’ open access books. The University of Michigan Press (UMP) is a leading publisher and distributor of books and digital projects in the humanities and social sciences that are aligned with the… Read More
AACR issues call for papers for new OA journal, Cancer Research Communications - October 21, 2021
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has announced the opening of the submission site for its new open access journal, Cancer Research Communications, signalling the official call for papers. This new journal is the 10th in the AACR’s portfolio of scientific publications, adding an open access… Read More
2021 STM Report reveals significant publisher-driven growth in OA and continued dynamism in the scholarly communication ecosystem - October 20, 2021
The Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has today published the latest edition of ‘The STM Report’, the organization’s comprehensive overview of the scientific and scholarly publishing market. The revised report, which adopts a new supplement format to be issued in regular thematic updates, reveals… Read More
