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German Minister of State and Culture Commissioner Monika Grütters is supporting the Frankfurter Buchmesse with 4 million euros from the country’s NEUSTART KULTUR stimulus package. The aim of the funding is to enable as many exhibitors from Germany and abroad as possible to take part in Frankfurter Buchmesse (14–18 October 2020) during the ongoing corona pandemic.

De Gruyter is partnering with LibLynx to power identity, access and analytics for their new digital publishing platform. De Gruyter’s goal is a highly customized digital platform that allows the publishing house to become more user-centered and data-driven and react much more flexibly to customer needs.

Underline (www.underline.io) has secured partnerships with several leading scientific associations to produce and host important scientific and academic conferences in Summer and Fall 2020. All of these meetings were initially planned to be held in-person, but organizers have turned to Underline, and a virtual format, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

cOAlition S is pleased to announce that the tender process to develop the Plan S Journal Checker Tool has been successfully completed. The tender has been awarded to Cottage Labs, a UK data services and software company with solid experience in managing open access data for academia.

The Board of directors of MPS Ltd in its meeting held today (July 1, 2020) considered and approved the purchase of 100% shares of HighWire Press and its subsidiaries for USD 6,100,000.

Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact through strategic communications management, has today announced that the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) has adopted Kudos Pro to accelerate communication of its COVID-19 research.

Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today released the 2020 update to its annual Web of Science Journal Citation Reports™ (JCR).

Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announces a partnership with Editage, the flagship brand of Cactus Communications (CACTUS), a technology company accelerating scientific advancement, to offer its Research Promotion Solutions for authors through the growing community of RightsLink® for Scientific Communications publishers.

Springer Nature continues to drive the transition to open access (OA) with the launch of a new fully OA journal series. The Discover series introduces a new streamlined OA publishing experience, extending Springer Nature’s commitment to OA by supporting quick access to high quality research to aid the advancement of scientific discovery.

Today, Hindawi has launched a new author services section of its website – providing authors with the ability to take advantage of a wide range of tools and services to help them make the most of their research throughout the publication process.

n 2019, a group of funders known as cOAlition S adopted Plan S, a set of principles and requirements for full and immediate Open Access to peer-reviewed scholarly publications resulting from the research they fund, beginning in 2021.

Publishers responsible for tens of thousands of peer-reviewed journals and books have signed an agreement with us to take a proactive stance against bias, as we commit to working together to better reflect the diversity of our communities and to remove barriers for under-represented groups.