BMJ joins industry initiative to protect research integrity - June 1, 2022
BMJ is pleased to announce that it is an official participating member of the STM Integrity Hub, a potentially powerful platform being built to detect integrity issues in manuscripts submitted for publication to scholarly journals. BMJ joins the initiative as a participating publisher alongside… Read More
American Chemical Society CEO, Thomas Connelly, Jr., announces retirement - June 1, 2022
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that Thomas Connelly, Jr., Ph.D., will retire from his position as ACS chief executive officer at the end of the year after more than seven years of serving in this role. In addition to effectively navigating the organization through the… Read More
De Gruyter and Jisc Collections announce scholarly monographs Purchase-to-Open agreement - June 1, 2022
Jisc Collections and De Gruyter have signed an agreement to publish up to 30 eBooks in immediate Gold Open Access, crowdfunded by participating libraries. The Purchase-to-Open agreement is a pilot project between JISC and De Gruyter to support sustainable academic book publishing through a… Read More
The Microbiology Society re-launches Access Microbiology as an innovative open research platform - June 1, 2022
The Microbiology Society has re-launched its sound science journal, Access Microbiology, as an innovative open research platform and is now open for submissions. It is free for authors to submit and publish on the platform during the first year of launch. Access Microbiology was originally launched in… Read More
Oxford University Press and Bibliosan sign Read & Publish agreement - May 31, 2022
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) and the Italian consortium of Biomedical Research Libraries (BIBLIOSAN) have announced a new Read & Publish agreement. As OUP’s first Read & Publish deal with an Italian consortium, the deal is significant in that it will provide online access for Bibliosan’s… Read More
The 2022 OASPA Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing issues call for contributions - May 31, 2022
The OASPA annual conference brings the open access community together to discuss new developments and innovations in scholarly publishing, and unite in their shared goal to enable research around the world to be openly accessible. The 2022 online conference will encourage participants to think Beyond Open… Read More
