PLOS and Carnegie Mellon University announce APC-free OA publishing agreement - June 9, 2020
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) have announced a two-year open access agreement that allows researchers to publish in PLOS' suite of journals without incurring article processing charges (APC). This partnership brings together two organisations that believe… Read More
Jisc and AoC launch project on shaping digital future of further education and skills - June 9, 2020
Jisc, the UK’s education and technology not-for-profit, has partnered with the Association of Colleges (AoC) to launch the project on shaping the digital future of further education (FE) and skills. Jisc will bring together college leaders, teachers, students, sector bodies and edtech… Read More
Europe PMC to take in full text of COVID-19 preprints - June 9, 2020
In this pandemic, researchers have responded by publishing results rapidly, often through preprints. In fact, up to half of the publications in Europe PMC on COVID-19 are preprints rather than peer-reviewed journal articles. Currently, the full text of these preprints are scattered as PDFs on preprint… Read More
Aries Systems partners with AAMC to enhance publishers’ disclosure collection process - June 9, 2020
Aries Systems Corporation, a scholarly publishing technology workflow solutions provider, has announced a collaboration with Convey®, the global disclosure system provided by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), to help publishers enhance their current disclosure collection process. Journals often see many discrepancies from one… Read More
Brill and CNPIEC in deal to make Brill journals available on CNPIEC’s CNPeReading Platform - June 9, 2020
International scholarly publisher Brill and China National Publications Import and Export (Group) Corporation (CNPIEC) have announced an agreement to make Brill journals available on CNPIEC’s CNPeReading Platform. With previously established collaborations for Brill’s eBooks, Brill will be able to offer its customers both eBooks and journals… Read More
ShanghaiTech University and American Chemical Society announce publishing partnership - June 8, 2020
ShanghaiTech University and the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) have announced their first publishing collaboration, creating a new journal for the worldwide research community, Accounts of Materials Research. Both organisations held a virtual ceremony to mark their collaboration on June 1, during which… Read More
