Hindawi to continue to share findings related to COVID-19 - March 20, 2020
Open access publisher Hindawi has reassured authors, editors, peer reviewers and readers that handling of academic research articles will continue without disruption. Hindawi teams around the world are working from home, but the community should not notice any differences in interactions with Hindawi, with peer review… Read More
SAGE Publishing issues statement on the COVID-19 Pandemic - March 18, 2020
The work of the research community will be critical to addressing the challenge of COVID-19. To support this, academic publisher SAGE Publishing has taken a number of actions. SAGE has removed the subscription gateway to articles that it believes will be of value to researchers and… Read More
COVID-19 – Publishers extend immediate access to resources - March 17, 2020
Publishers have announced an extended commitment to support the continued global response to the rapid worldwide spread of COVID-19. Sharing the worldwide concern about the spread and impact of COVID-19, publishers recognise the crucial role they can play in supporting the response to this crisis and advancing the research that… Read More
SPARC and COAR submit joint response to White House RFI on research data repositories - March 9, 2020
SPARC has collaborated with COAR on a comprehensive set of recommendations to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy RFI on desirable characteristics of repositories for sharing and managing federally funded research data. Good data management is critical for ensuring… Read More
Clarivate Analytics opens up wealth of insights and data to support research on Coronaviruses - February 7, 2020
To support medical researchers, policymakers, journalists and healthcare professionals in their efforts to better understand and combat coronavirus, now declared a global health emergency, an array of valuable Clarivate resources have been assembled. Clarivate has proprietary data and insights spanning scientific and academic research, life sciences… Read More
Atypon’s continued growth in 2019 featured new acquisitions, products, and international markets - January 31, 2020
Scholarly and professional publishing platform provider Atypon signed 7 new clients, launched 7 new client websites and 2 new applications for researchers, made 2 acquisitions, extended its contracts with 10 of its long-term clients, and grew its staff by more than 5% in 2019. Further broadening… Read More
International Alliance of Research Library Associations releases view of Plan S - October 29, 2019
The International Alliance of Research Library Associations (IARLA), a platform for collaboration of five members associations representing research libraries, has released a view of Plan S, an effort by major national research agencies and funders from twelve European countries to advance open access by requiring the… Read More
De Gruyter increases staff to better serve authors, partners and customers in the US - September 30, 2019
De Gruyter, an independent international academic publisher with roots in Germany, has significantly increased its presence in the United States by growing its office in Boston by 30 percent. The 16 colleagues in De Gruyter’s Boston office and 14 colleagues in the rest of the country… Read More
New American Journal of Medical Quality collection comments on 20 years of research - September 4, 2019
Over the past 20 years, has the US made significant progress to improve preventable medical errors? A new special collection of articles in the American Journal of Medical Quality (AJMQ), published by SAGE Publishing, begins to answer this question by analyzing the… Read More
New OCLC Research Project aims to better understand the operations, goals, and pain points of university stakeholders in research support services - August 28, 2019
OCLC Research is beginning an effort to better understand the operations, goals, and pain points of university stakeholders in research support services to inform communications and partnership. During the next several months it will collect and synthesise information about the experiences of campus units that play… Read More
