Scholarly publishers agree on standards for inclusion and diversity - November 22, 2021
As a signatory of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Joint Commitment for Action on Inclusion and Diversity in Publishing, PLOS has announced that the group has agreed to a set of standards to reduce bias within scholarly publishing. Last year, PLOS joined together with… Read More
AIP Publishing and Jisc announce three-year read & publish agreement - November 22, 2021
AIP Publishing, a leading not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has reached a three-year Read and Publish agreement with Jisc, an academic not-for-profit that advances digital technologies in support of education and research in the United Kingdom. The agreement, which covers the period of 2021-2023,… Read More
Collaboration between IBM Research Europe and Thieme Chemistry brings together ML and expert human-curated data with unprecedented results in synthesis reaction planning - November 22, 2021
The collaboration between IBM Research Europe and Thieme Chemistry, announced this summer, leverages the synergies between high-quality data (Science of Synthesis and Synfacts by Thieme) and cutting-edge machine learning models for organic chemistry synthesis prediction (RXN for Chemistry by IBM) to create an unprecedented… Read More
NISO publishes new recommended practice for content platform migrations - November 22, 2021
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the publication of its Recommended Practice, NISO RP-38-2021, Content Platform Migrations, which provides guidance to improve processes and communication between all parties, with suggested steps involved before, during, and after the migration of content from one platform to another.… Read More
Altmetric partners with Austria’s National Open Access transformation initiative - November 22, 2021
In an industry first, Altmetric is partnering with Austria’s National Open Access transformation initiative AT2OA2, supplying altmetrics data on over 250,000 research outputs from Austria’s academic institutions. AT2OA2 is the successor project to AT2OA, which ran from 2017-2020 and subsequently secured funding for… Read More
INORMS Research Evaluation Group releases guide to SCOPE Framework for responsible research evaluation - November 22, 2021
The International Network of Research Management Societies (INORMS) Research Evaluation Group (REG) has released an 18-page guide to their framework for responsible research evaluation called SCOPE, which has been designed by Emerald Publishing. Established in 2018, the INORMS REG has been working to… Read More
