Springer Nature unifies data policy across all journals and books to encourage open research practices - March 23, 2023
Springer Nature has taken a further step towards its commitment to open science by requiring mandatory data availability statements (DAS) across its journals portfolio and introducing its first unified data policy across the books portfolio. This means that authors submitting manuscripts to Springer Nature journals must provide… Read More
Oxford University Press announces first transformative agreement in South Africa - March 23, 2023
Oxford University Press (OUP) and non-profit organization the South African National Library and Information Consortium (SANLIC) have reached a three-year nationwide read and publish agreement. Coming into immediate effect, the agreement will support researchers at SANLIC’s member institutions with publishing their work open access… Read More
New whitepaper to explore the current and future landscape of scholarly communications infrastructure - March 23, 2023
STM Solutions has provided sponsorship to enable Ithaka S+R, a not-for-profit higher education research and consulting organization, to research and produce a white paper that examines the shared and essential scholarly communications infrastructure. Work on the paper is to begin immediately. A draft will… Read More
Amigos Library Services and NISO partner to provide library standards alliance to over 500 member libraries - March 23, 2023
Amigos Library Services and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have announced a consortium agreement to provide NISO Library Standards Alliance (LSA) membership to all Amigos members. The agreement will provide over 500 Amigos member libraries with full LSA membership benefits, including free… Read More
CCC to host virtual town hall to discuss the impact of generative AI tools on publishing and research - March 23, 2023
CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, will present a Town Hall discussion via LinkedIn live on March 30 at 11:00 a.m. EDT/16:00 BST/17:00 CEST that will address the questions, “What is the evolving nature of originality and authenticity?” And… Read More
ACS names new editor-in-chief and editor to CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians - March 23, 2023
The American Cancer Society (ACS) has announced a new editor-in-chief and editor to lead its flagship journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, which publishes the latest information about the prevention, early detection, and treatment of cancer, as well as nutrition, palliative care, survivorship,… Read More
