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Purdue University to Continue Partnership with Overleaf After Successful Pilot

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Overleaf, an innovative provider of scientific writing and publishing tools, today announced that Purdue University will continue in a five year partnership after a successful year-long pilot.

Global Advances in Health and Medicine joins SAGE Publishing’s medical collection

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SAGE Publishing is pleased to announce it will partner with the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health to publish Global Advances in Health and Medicine (GAHM), a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to improving health and well-being through whole-person and whole-systems care and healing

American Geophysical Union Announces Extension of its Partnership with Wiley

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To help realize the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) strategic goal to transform the future of scientific publishing in an evolving marketplace and vision to collaboratively advance and communicate science, AGU is renewing its partnership with Wiley.

Springer partners with the Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Springer, one of the leading publishers in the fields of science, technology and medicine, will launch the new journal of the Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS) – Aerosol Science and Engineering (ASE) – as of January 2017.

Wiley Partners with ASBMR on New Open Access Journal for Bone and Musculoskeletal Research

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John Wiley and Sons, Inc. and The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) announced today plans to launch in 2017 a new international, open access peer-reviewed publication, JBMR Plus.

Top 100 most shared academic papers of 2016

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The Altmetric annual Top 100 reveals Barack Obama, Artificial Intelligence, Zika Virus, Black Holes, Effects of Sugar and Wearable Tech on our Health are Favourite Topics of the Intellectually Curious

Springer offers flexible purchasing option for Springer Book Archives

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Springer now offers its Springer Book Archives (SBA) in smaller year set packages. The new SBA packages are divided up into “eras,” and make it easier for libraries to purchase individual subject collections according to their own needs and current budget situation.

Partnership between Overleaf and Cambridge University Press provides a new academic authoring experience

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Overleaf, an innovative provider of scientific writing and publishing tools, today announced a partnership with Cambridge University Press (CUP) - the publishing business of...

Wiley Becomes First Major Publisher to Require ORCID IDs for Submitting Authors

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John Wiley & Sons Inc, announced today plans to require ORCID iDs as part of the manuscript submission process for a large number of journals. Beginning in winter 2016, more than 500 Wiley journals using ScholarOne Manuscripts will require the submitting author (only) to provide an ORCID identifier (iD) when submitting a manuscript.

Shaping the nanoscience landscape – IOP Publishing launches Nano Futures

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IOP Publishing is pleased to announce the launch of Nano Futures, a new high-impact, multidisciplinary journal that will be positioned through an editorial policy geared strictly to capturing groundbreaking, future-oriented research with long term influence for nanoscience.

Transparent peer review at Nature Communications is a clear success

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Nature Communications is incorporating transparent peer review into the journal on a permanent basis, following a successful ten-month trial. In this scheme, authors are given the option to publish the peer review history of the paper alongside their published research.

Crossref now accepts preprints

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Crossref, the not-for-profit member organization for publishers, announced today that it is now accepting the registration of Crossref DOIs for preprints. The key decision is to acknowledge that preprints are a valuable part of the research story, and ensure that authors' own or institutional repository versions can be linked up with any eventual version on a publisher's site.