SLACK Journals launches SLACK Journals Select, a new token product - July 11, 2022
SLACK Journals has announced the launch of its new token product, SLACK Journals Select. With this product, token bundles are available for purchase in specific focus areas, including Nursing, Ophthalmology, and General Medicine. These token bundles allow customers affordable access to high-quality, peer-reviewed original articles without a… Read More
COUNTER Release 5.1 open for community consultation - July 8, 2022
First released in 2017, Release 5 of the COUNTER Code of Practice (CoP) incorporates the concept of continuous maintenance. Thus far, changes to Release 5 have been very small. In the last year, COUNTER’s volunteer teams, led by the Technical Advisory Group, have been… Read More
Tsinghua University Press launches SciOpen, an international digital publishing platform for STM journals - July 8, 2022
On June 24, 2022, the 5th Forum for World STM Journals, hosted by the Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST) and the People's Government of Hunan Province, opened in Changsha. SciOpen, an international digital publishing platform for STM journals independently developed by Tsinghua… Read More
JMIR Publications supports the new ASAPbio initiative – Publish Your Reviews - July 7, 2022
JMIR Publications has announced its support for Publish Your Reviews. A new ASAPbio initiative—Publish Your Review -- encourages reviewers to post their comments alongside the preprint versions of articles. Publishing peer reviews alongside preprints provides readers with additional context on preprints, pointing out… Read More
SSP’s new pilot programme connects scholarly publishing professionals with shared interests - July 1, 2022
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is piloting a new programme for connecting scholarly publishing professionals with others who share interests, concerns, and the goal of advancing their collective understanding or sharing best practices and ideas. The Communities of Interest Network (CoIN) will launch this new program… Read More
Emerald Publishing relaunches its Impact Manifesto - July 1, 2022
Emerald Publishing has relaunched its 'Impact Manifesto', pledging six commitments for change that will advance ongoing debates around academic culture, incentives, and research evaluation. In refreshing its Manifesto, the publisher calls for sector-wide action, bringing together multiple parties to break down the barriers to change. Since… Read More
ASTM International launches a new program for strengthening emerging technologies - July 1, 2022
Global standards organisation ASTM International has launched ASTM Xcellerate™ -- a program focused on strengthening the world’s emerging technology from research to standards. The ASTM Xcellerate program builds on ASTM’s globally recognised standards development process to provide the speed, and agility new technologies need… Read More
Elsevier expands MedReprints service to all major markets - June 30, 2022
Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, has announced the global expansion of its new MedReprints service. The expansion extends the growing digital and print-on-demand service to customers globally. Moreover, it is in direct response to an increasing need from Elsevier… Read More
NIHR launches new publishing platform-NIHR Open Research - June 30, 2022
NIHR has launched a new publishing platform – NIHR Open Research. The platform supports the entire research life cycle by allowing NIHR researchers to publish study findings, incremental findings, case reports, and even negative findings. Following a successful pilot, the NIHR Open Research… Read More
Patent knowledge for research: start of DFG project ‘Patents4Science’ - June 29, 2022
Together with its partners in research, FIZ Karlsruhe develops an innovative information infrastructure for patent information to be used by scientists. Entirely new: a patent-centered knowledge graph. A large part of the entire technical knowledge of mankind such as the description of technical processes and apparatus,… Read More
