Anaqua and Clarivate announce strategic partnership - May 21, 2020
Anaqua, the leading provider of innovation and intellectual property management solutions, and Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation, have announced a strategic partnership that brings together two of the leading service… Read More
EarthArXiv partners with California Digital Library to host earth sciences preprint service - May 21, 2020
The Advisory Council of the EarthArXiv preprint service for earth sciences has announced a partnership with the California Digital Library (CDL) that will support EarthArXiv’s mission, future growth, and long-term sustainability. Core to this partnership will be the transition of EarthArXiv’s preprints server – including public… Read More
OurDigitalWorld joins CRKN as Associate Member - May 21, 2020
The CRKN Board of Directors has announced that OurDigitalWorld has been approved as an Associate Member of CRKN. OurDigitalWorld is a Canadian not-for-profit organisation dedicated to providing the GLAM (gallery, library, archives, and museums) sector in North America with innovative tools for… Read More
Springer Nature becomes largest research publisher to sign DORA - May 20, 2020
Springer Nature has extended its commitment to ensuring that the impact and quality of research is assessed in a balanced and fair way by formally signing up as to the principles outlined in the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, commonly known as DORA. In doing… Read More
EDUCATE Ventures partners with Cambridge University Press to gather information on home learning during pandemic - May 20, 2020
EDUCATE Ventures has joined forces with academic publisher Cambridge University Press to gather information on home learning during school closures resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. The education technology accelerator originated by University College London is teaming up with the world-renowned publishing arm of Cambridge University to… Read More
Dutch Research Institutions and Elsevier announce world’s first national open science partnership - May 19, 2020
The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), The Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU), The Dutch Research Council (NWO) and Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, have formed a novel partnership that includes publishing and reading… Read More
HighWire completes site migration for the Soil and Water Conservation Society to host its flagship journal on the latest version of HighWire Hosting - May 19, 2020
Scholarly publishing technology provider, HighWire, has completed a site migration for the Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS) to host its flagship journal on the latest version of HighWire Hosting, delivering a number of upgrades and enhancements. The Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (JSWC)… Read More
The Association for Computing Machinery partners with The Charlesworth Group to expand open access publishing in China - May 19, 2020
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has partnered with The Charlesworth Group to expand the benefits of the ACM OPEN ‘read and publish’ Open Access (OA) licensing model in China. China has notably supported OA initiatives in the past several years… Read More
American Chemical Society and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in deal to increase advance open access publishing - May 18, 2020
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) to increase open access publishing by the university’s scientists, its first agreement advancing open science in the region. The partnership will last… Read More
American Chemical Society and Lithuanian Research Library Consortium in deal to advance OA publishing - May 15, 2020
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has signed a year-long ‘read and publish’ agreement with the Lithuanian Research Library Consortium (LMBA). This arrangement will help expand the publication of open access research by its scientists. Under the terms of the agreement, researchers at… Read More