Knowledge Unlatched presents its Open Access Heroes 2020 - March 6, 2020
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the international initiative for Open Access (OA), has announced that it has grown the impact of OA titles through its collections. In 2019, the number of total interactions (downloads and views) has grown by 50 percent to more than three million and on… Read More
IWA Publishing partners with Knowledge Unlatched to make 19 book titles Open Access - March 6, 2020
IWA Publishing has announced that the partnership with Knowledge Unlatched (KU), a library crowd-funding initiative, they have made 19 Open Access books. Titles are available to download for free on the IWA Publishing website, the KU platform and the Directory of Open Access Books. Among the… Read More
Springer Nature Group commits to be net carbon neutral in 2020 - March 5, 2020
In the lead up to publishing its third annual Responsible Business report, Springer Nature is committing to becoming carbon neutral for its business operations and employee flights, by the end of 2020. As publisher of some of the world’s most important research on climate science, the… Read More
IEEE SA appoints Silona Bonewald as Executive Director to lead IEEE SA Open - March 5, 2020
IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organisation, and IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) has announced Silona Bonewald as Executive Director to lead IEEE SA Open, a comprehensive platform offering the open source community cost-effective options for developing and validating their projects. IEEE SA will present IEEE… Read More
ACM and Publons partner to reward article reviewers - March 5, 2020
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced an effort to better serve and incentivise those who review ACM publications. Using the Publons Reviewer Recognition Service, reviewers of ACM publications will now be able to create a profile and to track, verify and promote their efforts.… Read More
ScienceOpen and the IET launch two new collections in the fields of AI and Transport - March 5, 2020
ScienceOpen and the IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology) have launched two featured collections: ‘AI & Robotics’ and ‘Transport Engineering and Technology’ which integrate selected Open Access articles from IET’s peer-reviewed international journals in the ScienceOpen research discovery environment. With… Read More
