The European Commission’s new OA publishing platform, Open Research Europe, to make scientific papers accessible to all - March 30, 2021
The European Commission recently launched Open Research Europe, a publishing platform for scientific papers that will be accessible to everyone. The platform will present the results of research funded by Horizon Europe, the EU research and innovation programme for 2021-2027, and its predecessor, Horizon 2020. Open… Read More
Bioscientifica acquires European Thyroid Journal; journal transitions to OA model - March 30, 2021
Bioscientifica, the society publisher, and commercial subsidiary of the Society for Endocrinology, has acquired the European Thyroid Journal, the flagship publication of the European Thyroid Association. The publisher will also be moving the journal from a subscription to an open access model. This will remove all barriers… Read More
Ireland’s Maynooth University joins ProQuest® Dissertations & Theses collection - March 30, 2021
Maynooth University, also known as The National University of Ireland Maynooth, is one of the first Irish institutions to include its graduate research in the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global® (PQDT) database. The PQDT database claims to be the largest curated collection of theses and dissertations in… Read More
IOS Press upgrades to HighWire’s next-generation, multi-format content platform, Scolaris - March 30, 2021
Digital publishing tools and platform solutions provider, HighWire, has announced that IOS Press has chosen to upgrade to HighWire’s next-generation content hosting platform, Scolaris. IOS Press has hosted its journals with HighWire since 2015, and is now seeking to consolidate its books and… Read More
Crue Spanish Universities-CSIC Alliance and Elsevier announce four-year pilot for reading and OA publishing - March 29, 2021
Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (Crue Universidades Españolas) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) have agreed on a new four-year pilot to support continued reading and open access (OA) publishing for universities and CSIC’s… Read More
Karger Publishers and Jisc sign publish and read agreement - March 29, 2021
Scientific and medical publisher Karger Publishers has signed a publish and read agreement with Jisc, the not-for-profit technology provider of research and education, which negotiates with publishers on behalf of universities in the UK. The three-year deal for 2021-2023 includes access to all Karger… Read More
