Boston Library Consortium members to benefit from new NISO membership agreement - January 24, 2024
The Boston Library Consortium (BLC) and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have announced an agreement to provide NISO Library Standards Alliance (LSA) membership to all BLC members through December 31, 2026. The agreement will extend full LSA membership benefits to BLC’s 25 member… Read More
ResearchGate and BMJ join forces to increase accessibility of critical healthcare knowledge for world’s medical researchers - January 24, 2024
ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and BMJ, a global leader in healthcare knowledge provision and a pioneer in open access (OA), have announced an agreement to make six BMJ OA journals available on the ResearchGate platform. This collaboration will provide wider reach and… Read More
Morressier closes $16.5m Series B and doubles down on its research integrity focus - January 24, 2024
Morressier, the Berlin-based startup transforming scholarly communications, has announced it has attracted $16.5m in investment in a Series B round led by Molten Ventures and with the participation of existing investors including Redalpine, Owl Ventures, and Cherry Ventures. This growth investment follows the company’s Series A round… Read More
The Microbiology Society and Fudan University announce open access agreement - January 24, 2024
The Microbiology Society has announced an agreement with Fudan University in China, starting in 2024. The Publish and Read model will allow affiliated researchers to publish an unlimited number of Open Access (OA) articles in the Society’s six peer-reviewed titles, as well as having… Read More
MUSE S2O Program aims to promote equitable participation and interdisciplinary content - January 24, 2024
Project MUSE, a leading platform of humanities and social sciences scholarship from non-profit publishers, has announced the MUSE Subscribe to Open (S2O) Program, launching in 2025. This collaborative effort marks an important step towards reshaping the landscape of equitable participation and access to a wide range of… Read More
Springer Nature extends transformative agreements with Japanese universities advancing the shift towards open access - January 22, 2024
Springer Nature has expanded its innovative pilot 2023 transformative agreement (TA) in Japan from 10 to 21 universities, all of which are part of the Research Universities Consortium (RUC). Researchers affiliated with any of the participating institutions in Japan can receive funding support to… Read More
