Springer Nature and swissuniversities reach understanding on a new transformative agreement - April 17, 2020
Springer Nature has reached an understanding on a new transformative read and publish deal with swissuniversities. Both parties have signed a Memorandum of Understanding; the final agreement will be concluded between Springer Nature and the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries this summer. Once signed, the… Read More
SSP’s virtual event recap: Seeking Sustainability: Publishing Models for an Open Access Age - April 17, 2020
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) presented its virtual large-scale virtual event, ‘Seeking Sustainability: Publishing Models for an Open Access Age,’ on April 2, 2020. This event was originally scheduled as an in-person event in conjunction with the UKSG Annual Meeting (planned for Brighton, UK), but… Read More
ACM releases report on best practices for virtual conferences - April 17, 2020
Science and technology conferences are engines of innovation—essential to the incubation of new ideas, the dissemination of research, and the spawning of new technologies. But this year, with no warning, conferences around the globe are finding themselves in uncharted waters as the global COVID-19 pandemic makes physical meetings impossible. To… Read More
AIP Publishing signs multi-year Read and Publish agreement with KAUST - April 17, 2020
AIP Publishing, a not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has signed a multi-year ‘Read and Publish’ agreement with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. KAUST is the first university from the Middle… Read More
Frontiers develops artificial intelligence tool to enable fast-track peer-review proposals for emergency COVID-19 research - April 17, 2020
Open-access publisher Frontiers has developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool to help funders identify specialists to peer-review proposals for emergency COVID-19 research. The tool helps fast-track the allocation of funding during the crisis by helping them identify new reviewers, and accelerates the scientific response to the… Read More
HighWire-hosted articles are now indexed by Semantic Scholar as default - April 17, 2020
Scholarly publishing technology provider HighWire has announced that all journals hosted by HighWire are now auto-depositing new articles to Semantic Scholar as default. Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered academic search engine designed to enhance article discovery for researchers, funded by the Allen Institute of… Read More
