The Royal Society of Chemistry and Portland Press, the wholly-owned publishing arm of the Biochemical Society, have agreed a partnership enabling the Royal Society of Chemistry to sell Portland Press journals content.

BMJ, a leading medical knowledge provider, has adopted ReView, River Valley’s submission and peer review system, for BMJ Open Science ( http://openscience.bmj.com ) The new journal applies open science principles to preclinical research, and incorporates several innovative features in peer review.

For every peer review completed for the journal Environmental Earth Sciences, a water filter is donated to developing countries – almost 600 since the start of 2017

Leading science publisher, AIP Publishing partnered with Molecular Connections to re-develop its physics-based ontology to classify and tag more than a million papers across its entire portfolio.

Nature Research is expanding its portfolio of open access titles to include a family of three new, high quality, selective, open access multidisciplinary journals, Communications Biology, Communications Chemistry and Communications Physics.

Emerald Publishing has acquired the list of three journals from US-based publisher PrAcademics Press for 2018 publication. The three journals are: o Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management (JPBAFM) o Journal of Public Procurement (JOPP) o International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior (IJOTB)

De Gruyter has taken the decision to digitize the entirety of its backlist all the way back to 1749. The decision to make this significant investment to complete the prestigious archive was taken earlier this year and the digitization process will begin shortly.

Enago, an internationally trusted name in author services for the global research community, has recently concluded an agreement with Thieme, the award-winning international medical and science publisher serving both health professionals and students for more than 125 years.

John Wiley and Sons Inc., is delighted to announce its selection by the Botanical Society of America (BSA) as publishing partner for its esteemed scholarly journals, the American Journal of Botany and Applications in Plant Sciences.

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and Overleaf announce a new partnership to expand the ASM author publishing tools to enhance the author experience.