EMS Press launches Subscribe To Open for 10 journals - June 29, 2020
EMS Press, the publishing house of the European Mathematical Society, has announced the launch of its Subscribe To Open (S2O) programme. 10 journals, including the European Mathematical Society’s flagship journal, the Journal of the European Mathematical Society, have been selected for the initial S2O round which,… Read More
EBSCO Information Services develops SUSHI Harvester for Multi-Site Libraries to improve usage reporting - June 26, 2020
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has developed a new resource to make harvesting COUNTER reports easier. The SUSHI Harvester for Multi-Site Libraries (the R5 Harvester) is a Microsoft® Access® tool designed to help small to medium size consortia more easily gather COUNTER reports for their affiliated libraries.… Read More
Google set to launch ‘new news experience’ later this year; to pay publishers to license content - June 26, 2020
Google has announced that it will begin paying news publishers for ‘high-quality content’ with the launch of a ‘new news experience’ later this year. The move marks a major departure for Google, which has until now steadfastly refused to compensate news publishers for content. As news organisations’ digital advertising revenues… Read More
2019 CiteScoreTM values released, improved methodology introduced to provide a faster, more stable indicator of research impact - June 23, 2020
Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, has released the 2019 CiteScoreTM values, its latest assessment of thousands of peer-reviewed research journals, book series, conference proceedings and trade publications covered in Scopus. In addition, an improved calculation methodology has been introduced to provide… Read More
Hindawi announces a range of new author service agreements to aid Authors make the most of their research - June 22, 2020
Hindawi has launched a new author services section of its website – providing authors with the ability to take advantage of a wide range of tools and services to help them make the most of their research throughout the publication process. Due to new agreements with… Read More
New peer-reviewed journal Telemedicine Reports set to launch in Summer 2020 - June 22, 2020
Telemedicine Reports, a new peer-reviewed open access companion to the highly regarded Telemedicine and e-Health, will launch as a part of the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers Open Access portfolio in Summer 2020. All articles in Telemedicine Reports will be published open access to ensure broad… Read More
NISO E-Book Metadata Recommended Practice now available for public comment - June 19, 2020
The NISO Working Group on E-Book Bibliographic Metadata Requirements in the Sale, Publication, Discovery, Delivery, and Preservation Supply Chain is inviting comments on its proposed Recommended Practice. Everyone involved in producing and using e-book metadata — publishers, retailers, libraries, service providers, and preservation agencies — is… Read More
JASA Express Letters to relaunch as OA title - June 19, 2020
The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) has announced that JASA Express Letters will transition in January 2021 to an online-only, gold open access journal. Since 2006, the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters has published as a section of JASA. JASA Express… Read More
ProQuest streamlines discoverability of subscription and OA content - June 17, 2020
ProQuest is improving the accessibility of subscription and open access content on its award-winning platform with a series of enhancements designed to boost research, teaching and learning outcomes. These enhancements include: a new starting point for research; new preview feature; and broader discovery of open… Read More
Nature Research authors the latest to benefit from In Review, a free integrated preprint sharing service - June 15, 2020
In Review, the innovative service which integrates early sharing and increased transparency in peer review with the journal submission and peer review process, is being made available for the first time to authors submitting primary research to Nature Research titles. Authors submitting to two Nature Research titles, Nature Communications and… Read More
