PLACE: A collaborative initiative connecting publishers with experts and resources to improve scholarly publishing practices - March 16, 2023
A new online forum has been created for organizations seeking to adopt best practices in scholarly publishing. The Publishers Learning and Community Exchange (PLACE) provides a space where publishers can access information from multiple agencies in one place, ask questions of experts, and engage in conversations with other publishers. PLACE… Read More
Transforming open access: publishers and funders join forces in pilot project - March 16, 2023
Thirteen publishers and twelve research funders are collaborating in a new project aimed at advancing open access (OA) publishing. The project, which began earlier this year, builds on the collaborative work done in the OA Switchboard community and previous pilots in 2022. Participants in… Read More
Susan Patton joins the Society for Scholarly Publishing as Program Director - March 16, 2023
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has announced the appointment of Susan Patton to their team as Program Director. Patton will work collaboratively with SSP’s programming-focused committees, Executive Director, and Board in setting a strategic direction for developing all educational programming of the Society. As Program… Read More
SciBite unveils Workbench, makes data curation simple and intuitive - March 15, 2023
SciBite, an Elsevier company that offers semantic technology solutions, has launched a new tool called Workbench that simplifies the process of curating data to terminology and ontology standards. This new tool can help organizations implement a FAIR approach to data management,… Read More
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
