Big Ten Academic Alliance partners with OA Switchboard to support open access - March 15, 2023
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) libraries have announced a new partnership with OA Switchboard to aid in the transition to open access and promote the growth of open scholarship. This partnership will allow BTAA members to benefit from OA Switchboard's standardized metadata protocol… Read More
IOP Publishing secures first OA agreements in Asia - March 15, 2023
Society publisher IOP Publishing (IOPP) has announced its first transformative agreements (TAs) in Asia to deliver open access (OA) at scale globally. The three-year read and publish agreements were signed with the University of Hong Kong (HKU), the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and The Hong… Read More
Republic of Ireland continues to benefit from BMJ Best Practice for third year running - March 15, 2023
Health Library Ireland (HLI) has extended its national subscription to BMJ Best Practice for the third year running, providing clinical and patient education information to everyone in the Republic of Ireland, including Health Service Executive (HSE) healthcare professionals. BMJ Best Practice is a tool that offers… Read More
EMBO Press transitions to fully open access - March 15, 2023
Scientific publisher EMBO Press has announced that effective from January 1, 2024, all its journals, including The EMBO Journal and EMBO Reports, will switch from encouraging Open Access publication to applying Open Access to all published papers. The move aims to promote Open Science for individual researchers,… Read More
Prof. Tingyue Gu appointed new editor-in-chief of Bioresources and Bioprocessing journal - March 15, 2023
Russ College professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Tingyue Gu, has been named the new editor-in-chief of Bioresources and Bioprocessing, a peer-reviewed journal published by Springer with an impact factor of 4.983. Gu's appointment is aimed at promoting research to support… Read More
Cambridge University Press launches AI ethics policy for research publishing - March 14, 2023
Cambridge University Press has launched its AI ethics policy to help researchers use generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, while upholding academic standards around transparency, plagiarism, accuracy, and originality. The guidelines include a ban on AI being treated as an author of academic papers… Read More
