Springer Nature acquires TooWrite, continues its focus on tailored solutions for academics - February 15, 2023
Springer Nature has announced the acquisition of innovative digital writing aid, TooWrite. This is the latest addition to the publisher's growing portfolio of digital solutions for academics designed to help improve their working lives. Developed by researchers for researchers, the TooWrite platform streamlines and simplifies scientific… Read More
AMIA names InterSystems as a Platinum Corporate Partner for 2023 - February 13, 2023
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has announced InterSystems as an AMIA Platinum Corporate Partner for the 2023 calendar year. This level of partnership means InterSystems is supporting the association, its mission, and its members with a significant investment. InterSystems has been a… Read More
Taylor & Francis becomes the latest official supporter of Open Pharma - February 9, 2023
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has become the latest official Supporter of the Open Pharma initiative. Open Pharma aims to drive positive change in the communication of research funded by the pharmaceutical industry, with workstreams focused on improving the transparency, accountability, accessibility and discoverability… Read More
Frontiers and FIIBAP announce new partnership agreement - February 9, 2023
Spanish funding body Foundation for Biosanitary Research and Innovation in Primary Care (FIIBAP) has entered into a new partnership agreement with gold open access publisher Frontiers. The agreement, which was finalized in December 2022, supports FIIBAP’s mission to promote research and innovation in the… Read More
ResearchGate and De Gruyter announce content syndication partnership - February 2, 2023
Academic publisher De Gruyter and ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, have announced a content syndication partnership that will see content from 437 of De Gruyter’s journals added to ResearchGate. With approximately 114,000 articles being syndicated on launch, representing all open-access content from… Read More
Two-year pilot project to eliminate author/article processing charges in all PLOS journals - February 2, 2023
McMaster University Libraries are partnering with the Public Library of Science (PLOS) in a pilot project to remove financial barriers to publishing research. The two-year project will see the elimination of author/article processing charges (APCs) in all PLOS journals. Usually, authors incur APCs… Read More
The Fonds de recherche du Québec joins the ORCID-CA Consortium - February 2, 2023
The Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ) has joined ORCID-CA, the Canadian consortium established to support the integration of ORCID identifiers in research-related information systems. ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) produces unique, persistent identifiers that researchers can use with multiple organizations to compile… Read More
De Gruyter acquires Mercury Learning - February 1, 2023
Academic publisher De Gruyter has announced the acquisition of publishing house Mercury Learning and Information. Mercury provides print and digital content in the areas of science, technology and computing, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) designed for the professional/ reference, trade, library, higher education, career… Read More
Integration between PLOS and the EarthArXiv preprint server is now live - February 1, 2023
The planned integration between PLOS and the EarthArXiv preprint server is now live. Authors submitting to PLOS Climate, PLOS Sustainability and Transformation, and PLOS Water will now have the option to… Read More
JAMA Network partners with Data Licensing Alliance for AI/ML - January 30, 2023
Data Licensing Alliance, Inc. (DLA), the first marketplace for licensing STEM data for artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) purposes, has announced the addition of the JAMA Network Open and JAMA Health Forum datasets on the DLA marketplace. The addition… Read More
