HighWire expands its journal site hosting provision for the American College of Cardiology - August 23, 2019
Scholarly publishing technology provider HighWire has announced that it is expanding its journal site hosting provision for the American College of Cardiology (ACC). The Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) family of journals is one of the most widely read and impactful cardiovascular… Read More
ProQuest appoints Pep Carrera as President, ProQuest Books - August 23, 2019
Educational technology provider ProQuest has named Pep Carrera as President of its Books business unit. Carrera leads the team focused on providing innovative, flexible models and integrated technologies that make the acquisition and management of books cost-effective and efficient. Before his leadership role at ProQuest,… Read More
medRxiv now have the option to transfer manuscripts for publication consideration at relevant PLOS journals - August 23, 2019
Authors with preprints on the new health sciences preprint server medRxiv now have the option to transfer their manuscripts for publication consideration at relevant PLOS journals in the topic area, PLOS Medicine, PLOS NTDs, or PLOS ONE. PLOS is among the first… Read More
Projekt DEAL and Springer Nature reach understanding on world’s largest transformative OA agreement - August 22, 2019
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between MPDL Services, on behalf of Projekt DEAL, and Springer Nature, sets the scene for the world’s most comprehensive open access (OA) agreement to be finalised later this year. Reaching such an understanding has been possible through acknowledgement of the… Read More
British Ecological Society’s extensive study to test if ‘blinding’ can reduce bias in science publishing - August 22, 2019
A two-year randomised controlled trial in the British Ecological Society journal Functional Ecology will be the largest of its kind to date to assess whether hiding author details during peer review reduces bias against under-represented groups in the science publishing process. Scientific papers go through… Read More
SSP webinar offerings discuss Plan S, AI Use Cases, and Content Distribution - August 22, 2019
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) webinar series covers timely topics and delivers highly informative and thought-provoking sessions designed to challenge and stimulate discussion. Building on earlier topics in the 2019 series, SSP is offering the following webinars through the end of the year: Plan… Read More
