« At the end of June 2017, the four editors-in-chief of the Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics informed Springer that they will not renew their contracts, which terminate on 31 December 2017. Nearly all of the editorial board members will also resign, to form the editorial board of a new journal that…
« Change is constant in scholarly publishing; nowhere more than in the world of metrics. Here, four industry leaders offer Tim Gillett some predictions for the future.
What are the most important recent developments within the world of metrics?
Dr. Martijn Roelandse, head of publishing innovation, Springer Nature: Metrics for books.…
« Dans le cadre du projet ISTEX, une nouvelle licence nationale vient d’être signée avec l’éditeur Springer. Cette licence prévoit l’utilisation, l’accès et le téléchargement illimités des eBooks issus de quatre collections complètes de livres électroniques, soit plus de 33 000 titres de livres électroniques en mathématiques, physique et astronomie, chimie…
« (…) Springer is partnering with Federica Weblearning, which is an academic platform devoted to innovation, experimentation and the dissemination of multimedia distance learning. The collaboration allows authors and lecturers several options of preparing both a textbook and a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on…
« Today’s news that Elsevier has acquired Plum Analytics from EBSCO provides the latest opportunity for insight into the remarkable evolution of the largest and most sophisticated academic content providers. From Elsevier and Springer to EBSCO and ProQuest, these publishers and content providers are reducing their reliance on their…
(…) The Springer Compact agreement is a deal that combines journal subscription costs with APC:s for 32 Swedish universities during the period. Sweden is not the first country to up, the Netherlands, UK, Austria and Max Planck Society in Germany have already signed this and similar deals.…
« In a recent blog post, Jisc Collections reported how the Springer Compact agreement was progressing in the UK. This blog post assesses the progress made in the first 9 months of the agreement between January and September 2016.
The Springer Compact agreement was launched…
« Researchers at Stockholm University can now publish articles open access without any fees in more than 1600 Springer journals.
Stockholm University has joined the pilot agreement between The National Library of Sweden and Springer until end of 2018. This agreement states that all publishing fees for…
« Springer and the Swedish library consortium for universities and research institutes (Bibsam) have finalized a broad agreement for Springer Compact running through December 2018. Springer Compact is a transitional deal combining reading access and open access publishing in one payment scheme. Specifically, participating consortium members’ researchers gain access…
« We want to enable our authors to publish the best research and maximize the benefit of research funding, which includes achieving good practice in the sharing and archiving of research data. We also aim to facilitate authors’ compliance with institution and research funder requirements to share data.
