eLife names Fiona Hutton as new Head of Publishing - April 27, 2022
eLife has announced the appointment of Fiona Hutton as its new Head of Publishing. A long-time advocate for open science, Hutton will lead eLife’s transformation to a ‘publish, then review’ model that puts preprints first. Originally a life scientist specializing in cancer virology, Hutton brings 20 years… Read More
Aries Systems partners with Figshare to facilitate the sharing of open data - April 27, 2022
Aries Systems Corporation, a technology workflow solutions provider to the scholarly publishing community, and Figshare, a highly configurable platform for sharing research data, have partnered to promote and facilitate the sharing of open data from academic papers. Figshare, part of Digital Science, has integrated… Read More
SAGE Publishing and Environmental Peacebuilding Association set to launch new journal – Environment and Security - April 22, 2022
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing and the Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) are partnering to launch a new peer-reviewed journal, Environment and Security – the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the understanding environment, climate, security, conflict, and peace linkages. Environment and Security is an interdisciplinary, international,… Read More
Jisc and the Royal Society of Chemistry announce new transitional OA agreement - April 22, 2022
Jisc and the Royal Society of Chemistry have extended and revised their transformative agreement until the end of 2024. Now utilizing all previous expenditures to support open access (OA) publications, the deal covers all expected publishing output in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s hybrid… Read More
GOBI® now offers the open research library e-book platform from Knowledge Unlatched - April 22, 2022
GOBI® Library Solutions from EBSCO (GOBI Library Solutions) now supports the Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Open Access (OA) e-books funding model, providing the opportunity for academic libraries to support OA funding initiatives within their GOBI workflow. The addition of the Knowledge Unlatched Open Research Library E-Book… Read More
University of Geneva and Frontiers announce publishing agreement - April 22, 2022
University of Geneva has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible University of Geneva researchers may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to them and with a simplified process. Articles may… Read More
