« EMBO and EMBO Press are making their journals’ finances public to provide transparency and clarity about what it costs to publish articles in high quality, selective journals.
By EMBO Director Maria Leptin
The current debate on the appropriate costs for article-processing charges (APCs) in Open Access (OA) publishing is…
« Open research data is one of the key areas in the expanding open scholarship movement. Scholarly journals and publishers find themselves at the heart of the shift towards openness, with recent years seeing an increase in the number of scholarly journals with data-sharing policies aiming to increase transparency and reproducibility…
« Emerald Publishing is the first publisher to adopt F1000’s Open Research Publishing model. With the launch of the new platform, Emerald Open Research, Tony Roche, Publishing and Strategic Relationships Director at Emerald Publishing, discusses open research and Emerald’s commitment as a global publisher to provide…
« Last week Wiley and Projekt DEAL announced a transformative Publish-and-Read agreement that will, by a conservative estimate, giving the world at least 30,000 additional open access articles over the next three years. Under this agreement, articles by authors from participating institutions…
« SAGE Publishing has acquired technology start-up Lean Library and its associated products to promote the value of the academic library to patrons and bring library services directly into the patron’s workflow via their web browser.
The Lean Library browser extension provides seamless, one-click access to all licensed library resources, both…
« On 4th September 2018 ‘Plan S: Accelerating the transition to full and immediate Open Access to scientific publications ‘ was launched. STM has issued a statement on the plan »
« (…) In Germany, the fight for open access and favorable pricing for journals is getting heated. At the end of last month (June 30), four major academic institutions in Berlin announced that they would not renew their subscriptions with the Dutch publishing giant Elsevier once they end…
« Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), which creates global licensing and content solutions that make copyright work, announces that the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Bone & Joint Publishing, and IWA Publishing have chosen to manage Article Publishing Charges (APCs) for…
« Publishers, vendors and librarians often discuss the needs of the researcher. However, it is not often that information professionals have the opportunity to sit down with a group of researchers, listen to their perspective and ask them questions. The UKSG One-Day Conference held in London in November 2016 offered such…
« Recommended, a new service which connects the research community with the most relevant content, is launched by Springer Nature today. The service has been developed in response to the extensive and rapid increase in published research which makes it difficult for researchers to keep up to date with…
