Dr. David Peden named inaugural Editor-in-Chief of new AAAAI journal - July 19, 2021
Dr. David Peden, past president of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, will serve as the academy’s first editor-in-chief of a new open-access publication - The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Global (JACI: Global). Peden, who also serves as Senior Associate Dean for… Read More
University of Buckingham Press unveils UBP Open Books - July 19, 2021
University of Buckingham Press (UBP) has announced the launch of UBP Open Books, a new open access books imprint. New titles will be published on a gold open access basis under a CC-BY-NC licence to ensure all digital editions are available equally and openly to a global… Read More
Oxford University Press reports strong shift to digital in a year of disruption - July 15, 2021
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has released its annual report 2020-21 showing that, despite the challenges of the pandemic, it delivered a solid financial performance and responded to meet the rapidly shifting needs of learners and researchers globally. OUP recorded a Group turnover of £754.5… Read More
NISO and STM form new NISO Working Group to formalize Peer Review Taxonomy as an ANSI/NISO standard - July 15, 2021
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and STM, the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers, have announced the formation of a new NISO Working Group to formalize the Peer Review Taxonomy as an ANSI/NISO standard, following approval of the project by NISO… Read More
ISSN International Centre concludes pilot project to establish centralized workflow for assigning ISSN to Springer Nature’s serial publications - July 15, 2021
The ISSN International Centre, with academic publisher Springer Nature, has just completed constructing a new, centralized process for the assignment of International Standard Serial Numbers (ISSN) to periodicals and books series published by Springer Nature and its brands which include Springer, Nature Portfolio, BMC,… Read More
Digital Science partners with OntoChem GmbH to better support Life Sciences industry - July 15, 2021
Digital Science, a technology company serving stakeholders across the research ecosystem, have announced a new partnership with OntoChem GmbH. The partnership allows OntoChem and Digital Science to join forces for mutual clients, particularly in the Life Sciences industry, through OntoChem’s powerful semantic indexing capabilities. OntoChem has… Read More