GeoScienceWorld’s Lithosphere to run on Phenom, an open system built by Hindawi - February 10, 2020
Hindawi's open source scholarly infrastructure platform, Phenom, will now power the newly relaunched Lithosphere - the society-run, open access community journal for geosciences. The contract between GeoScienceWorld (GSW) and Hindawi was signed in late 2019 with Lithosphere opening for submissions on January 13, 2020. Lithosphere has… Read More
McGraw-Hill selects Proctorio to deliver remote proctoring and browser locking capabilities within its digital course materials - February 6, 2020
Through a new agreement with Proctorio, McGraw-Hill, a leader in learning science and digital learning tools, will offer remote proctoring and browser locking capabilities for assessments in its McGraw-Hill Connect® digital learning platform for college courses. These services will be available for… Read More
Kudos partners with the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Liverpool to broaden reach and engagement with Kudos Pro - February 6, 2020
Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact through strategic communications management, has announced a new partnership with the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Liverpool. The Faculty will use Kudos Pro to broaden multi-audience reach and engagement with key projects and impact… Read More
ACS Publications and ORCID in deal to recognise ACS reviewers - February 5, 2020
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that reviewers of ACS journal articles can now claim credit for their efforts through ORCID. This new collaboration will provide acknowledgement for reviewers’ crucial contributions to the scholarly publication process. Reviewers give their time and… Read More
Rutgers partners with Google to provide online access to 190,000 books - February 4, 2020
Students, faculty and the global public will soon be able to discover nearly 190,000 titles from Rutgers University Libraries’ collections online, as a result of a new partnership with Google. The Google Books Library Project aims to ‘build a searchable catalogue of the world’s books online.’… Read More
Textbook publishers Cengage, McGraw-Hill extend merger agreement - February 4, 2020
Textbook publishers Cengage Learning Holdings and McGraw-Hill Education, who announced last year that they would merge, have extended their merger agreement to May 1 as some countries are still reviewing the deal. The proposed merger, which was announced in May 2019, had been set to expire… Read More
The American Diabetes Association and Kudos partners to accelerate the positive impact of diabetes research in the world - February 4, 2020
Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact through strategic communications management, has announced a new three-year partnership with the American Diabetes Association (ADA) – a global leader in the provision of emerging diabetes knowledge. Through this partnership, Kudos will provide ADA’s… Read More
De Gruyter and nine universities in the Netherlands sign read and publish agreement - January 31, 2020
Academic publisher De Gruyter and UKB, the consortium of university libraries in the Netherlands, have signed an agreement to provide default open access publishing in 305 hybrid journals to nine Dutch universities. Subscription access to the complete De Gruyter eJournal collection (347 journals) is also included.… Read More
Springer Nature and the Materials Research Society announce publishing partnership - January 30, 2020
Springer Nature and the Materials Research Society (MRS) have signed a strategic new publishing agreement that will come into effect starting on January 1, 2021. At that time, the two organisations will partner to publish all five journals in the MRS portfolio—MRS Bulletin, Journal of Materials… Read More
American Physiological Society announces its new Read, Publish and Join pilot with Iowa State University Library - January 29, 2020
The American Physiological Society (APS) has announced its new Read, Publish and Join pilot with Iowa State University Library. This innovative custom publishing model is the first of its kind—bundling reading and publishing under an annual fee along with the added bonus of membership for authors… Read More
