Wiley Signs Declaration on Research Assessment, improves commitment to responsible research evaluation - May 5, 2022
Global research and education leader Wiley has signed the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which is a world-wide initiative designed to improve the ways in which the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated. As the publisher of nearly 2,000 academic journals, Wiley will deliver more ways to… Read More
CCC acquires Ringgold - May 5, 2022
CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has acquired Ringgold, a longstanding provider of persistent organization identifiers widely used by the scholarly communications community. With offices in the US and UK, Ringgold is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of CCC. Terms… Read More
Pearson acquires Mondly, a leading online language learning platform - May 4, 2022
Pearson, a leading learning company, has acquired Mondly, a global online language learning platform. The acquisition will allow Pearson to offer a full range of ways for people to learn and prove their English skills – adding online self-study to its existing diagnosis and learning tools and… Read More
Research Solutions and OhioNet partner to provide member libraries with rapid access to millions of scholarly articles - April 29, 2022
Research Solutions/Reprints Desk, a pioneer in providing cloud-based workflow solutions for R&D driven organizations, has announced a partnership agreement with OhioNet, a consortium of more than 4,000 libraries. The agreement provides OhioNet members discounted rates on millions of peer-reviewed articles and other scholarly content via the Article… Read More
Oxford University Press and the Royal Statistical Society announce publishing partnership - April 27, 2022
Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced a new agreement with the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) to publish its journals. Effective January 2023, OUP will publish the RSS Journals (Series A, Series B, and Series C) and Significance magazine. RSS Journals will join OUP’s portfolio… Read More
Aries Systems partners with Figshare to facilitate the sharing of open data - April 27, 2022
Aries Systems Corporation, a technology workflow solutions provider to the scholarly publishing community, and Figshare, a highly configurable platform for sharing research data, have partnered to promote and facilitate the sharing of open data from academic papers. Figshare, part of Digital Science, has integrated… Read More
Elsevier set to acquire Interfolio - April 21, 2022
Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, and part of RELX, has entered into an agreement to acquire Interfolio, a provider of advanced faculty information solutions for higher education, headquartered in Washington DC, US. Founded in 1999,… Read More
SCOAP3 formally extended by two years - April 21, 2022
The Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) program—the world’s largest disciplinary open access initiative—has been formally extended by two years, until December 31st, 2024. The extension of the existing Phase 3 of SCOAP3 was an outcome of a recommendation made in mid-2020… Read More
Western University joins PeerJ’s Three Year Publishing Memberships program - April 21, 2022
The Western University, Canada, has joined PeerJ’s Three-Year Fixed Term Memberships Program. Western is the latest institution to sign up for the program which offers an innovative alternative to Article Processing Charges (APC) for Open Access. Under the agreement, the cost of Three-Year Memberships… Read More
Brill acquires Wageningen Academic Publishers, strengthens its portfolio in Biology and Open Access - April 18, 2022
Academic publisher Brill has reached an agreement with the shareholders of Wageningen Academic Publishers B.V. (WAP) to acquire all shares in the business. WAP is a cutting-edge, international academic publisher in the fields of Animal Science, Food and Health Science, Agriculture, Environment, and Agribusiness.… Read More
