The Association for Computing Machinery unveils new ACM journal: Transactions on Recommender Systems - March 9, 2022
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has announced the launch of a new ACM journal: Transactions on Recommender Systems (TORS). Submissions are now being accepted through the publication’s submissions site. The inaugural issue will be published in Spring 2023 and issued… Read More
SPIE and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem announce Read and Publish agreement - March 9, 2022
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced a Read and Publish agreement with Israel's Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The agreement, which began on January 1, adds unlimited, open-access publishing in SPIE journals to the SPIE Digital Library subscription. Qualifying authors may publish in… Read More
Library community support for Subscribe-to-Open ensures open access for Mathematics titles in 2022 - March 9, 2022
EDP Sciences and the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI) have announced that six mathematics journals will continue to publish in open access under the Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) model in 2022. This demonstrates the support from the library community for this equitable open access model which enables… Read More
Kantonsbibliothek Graubünden becomes first Swiss library to adopt Ex Libris Library Mobile app - March 9, 2022
Ex Libris, part of Clarivate plc, has announced that Switzerland’s Kantonsbibliothek Graubünden (Grisons Cantonal Library) and its educational network of more than 20 Grison libraries have chosen the Ex Libris Library Mobile™ app, powered by the campusM™ solution as its library smartphone solution. … Read More
Trends in Academic Publishing Survey 2021 - March 7, 2022
In 2021, Deanta surveyed academic publishers across the globe to discover how the industry was reacting after a Covid-hit 2020. The results of that 2021 survey revealed how the skills that publishers need were diversifying and, although confidence across the industry was high, evidence of immediate meaningful change was low,… Read More
PLOS offers new alternatives for publishing a medRxiv preprint - March 7, 2022
PLOS Global Public Health and PLOS Digital Health will join the other PLOS journals publishing medical research in giving submitting authors the option to have their manuscript forwarded to medRxiv to be considered for posting as a preprint. In offering this free service, we aim to make… Read More
