« The American Chemical Society (ACS) today announced its partnership with the Royal Society of Chemistry and the German Chemical Society (GDCh) to support the financial and strategic development of ChemRxiv, the premier preprint server for the global chemistry community. This strategic partnership among three of the largest…
« The Open Library of Humanities, Birkbeck’s Centre for Technology and Publishing, and the University of Huddersfield Press have entered into an agreement to migrate the Press’s journals to the Janeway platform.
Janeway is a modern, open-source academic publishing platform written in Python using the Django framework. It has a commitment…
« This document sets out the UK government’s reflections on the Ninth EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP9). (…) »
« We’re going to do the first full review of our open access policy. Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research, explains the motivation behind the review, and how and when it will happen. (…) »
« Creative Nation uses official, open and web data to map the creative industries in the UK, their evolution, contribution to local economic development, the strength of their support ecosystems – including research and informal networking – and their connections with each other. Ultimately, it seeks to contribute to our understanding of…
« The 2017 report, Changing publishing ecologies: A landscape study of new university presses & academic-led publishing, shows a discernible increase in new publishing initiatives over the last few years. These have a potentially disruptive effect on the scholarly communication environment, providing new avenues for the dissemination of research outputs. The…
« Over eighty university libraries have signed an open letter to Taylor & Francis rejecting their new policy of locking content more than 20 years old behind a « moving wall ».
This means that academic research which was previously available to universities as part of the Taylor & Francis « big deal » will…
« The UK Research Councils have today (Wednesday 7th February) published a statement on the responsible use of metrics and signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).
The Research Councils want to encourage active discussion by the research community on this policy area and, where appropriate, set out good…
« We are proud to announce that Kopernio has received funding and additional support from Innovate UK, the UK Government’s innovation agency, to accelerate the development of Kopernio’s one-click journal article access technology to simplify more than 2.4bn research article downloads per year. Innovate UK will provide financial support to extend…
« We would like to announce some changes to our Peer Review College.
From March 29th we will be removing our requirement for a Technical Plan and as such disbanding our Technical College. In its place we will be replacing it with a requirement to submit a Data Management Plan. This…
