SPARC Africa partners with AfLIA to advance open sharing of knowledge and research - January 18, 2021
SPARC Africa has partnered with African Library & Information Associations & Institutions (AfLIA) in a new effort to advance the open sharing of knowledge and research on the continent. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed in December 2020 to formalise the partnership.… Read More
IEEE adopts Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink® for Scientific Communications - January 15, 2021
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, is announcing that IEEE, the technical professional organisation advancing technology for humanity, has adopted RightsLink® for Scientific Communications (RLSC) to manage institutional agreements and publication fee… Read More
Four additional publishers adopt NISO’s KBART - January 13, 2021
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced that four more publishers have recently started supplying metadata that conforms to the NISO recommended practice, KBART: Knowledge Bases And Related Tools. Totally 62 publishers have now achieved KBART compliance since the recommended practice was originally published in 2010.… Read More
Springer Nature CEO calls for partnership across research community - January 12, 2021
Springer Nature’s Chief Executive Officer Frank Vrancken Peeters will call for partnership within publishing and the wider research community, pointing to the benefits such engagement has delivered over the past year during the corona-virus pandemic. In a keynote address at the thirteenth annual Academic Publishing in… Read More
CNUDST and SPIE partner with Accucoms to finalise national Read & Publish agreement in Tunisia - January 12, 2021
CNUDST and SPIE have partnered with Accucoms to finalise a national Read & Publish agreement in Tunisia. Academic and research establishments in Tunisia will have access to entire SPIE Digital Library content which includes scientific journals as well as conference proceedings. In addition… Read More
McGraw Hill extends its partnership with Clever to provide access to digital learning tools - January 11, 2021
McGraw Hill is expanding its partnership with Clever, the most widely-used single sign-on (SSO) and rostering service in the K-12 market, to make it easier for students to access digital learning tools. Through a new agreement between the two industry leaders that extends to 2030, the 13,000… Read More
Bentham Science partners with Universidade Lusófona to help researchers - January 11, 2021
Bentham Science, a science, technology, and medical (STM) publisher, has announced an Institutional Member partnership with the Portuguese university, Universidade Lusófona. The partnership gives researchers from the university an opportunity to publish their research under an Open Access license under economical terms. This agreement is a continuation… Read More
HighWire hosts journal for China Anti-cancer Association - January 8, 2021
Scholarly publishing technology provider HighWire, currently celebrating its 25th year of business, has expanded its global footprint with its first customer in China, the China Anti-Cancer Association (CACA). CACA, founded in 1984, is the leading professional society of oncology in China, with a mission… Read More
Higher education leaders turn to Cengage Unlimited to help faculty teach online - January 7, 2021
As the pandemic closed campuses, higher education leaders turned to Cengage Unlimited for Institutions for affordable access to quality, digital learning materials at scale, as well as academic services to move courses online and professional development resources to help faculty teach online. Partnering with Read More
Wiley announces acquisition of Hindawi - January 6, 2021
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the acquisition of Hindawi Limited, an innovator in open access (OA) publishing and one of the world's fastest growing scientific research publishers, for a total purchase price of $298 million. The acquisition of Hindawi significantly increases Wiley’s… Read More
