Researchers who post a preprint to Research Square can now access AJE author services and Research Square videos to improve their manuscript and better communicate their findings. After the launch of the multidisciplinary platform in Fall 2018, Research Square has seen record uptake and now hosts more than 3,200 preprints, making it the world’s fastest growing preprint platform.

Publons and ScholarOne, both part of the Web of Science Group (a Clarivate Analytics company), have entered into a new partnership with IOP Publishing to introduce the industry’s first cross-publisher, scalable transparent peer review workflows across some of their leading journals in the physical sciences and beyond.

This is the latest development in the ongoing negotiations between Elsevier and the University of California (UC) for a new licensing agreement. UC’s previous contract with the publisher had lapsed at the end of last year—and the university has since been pushing for a deal that combines payments for accessing journals and publishing open-access articles into one fee.

Single sign-on leader OpenAthens revealed a new user-centred identity at the CILIP conference last week. The new brand embodies the software providers’ mission to make access to knowledge easy for its more than 2,600 customers and millions of end users across the globe.

Springer Nature and ResearchGate today extend their content sharing pilot. The second iteration of the pilot will now see four times more SpringerNature content being rolled out across the ResearchGate platform, including content from specialized Springer journals.

Enago, a global leader in author services, announces the addition to its senior team of two experienced STM publishing professionals. Reinhard Schuelke joins as Vice President Strategic Alliances and Tony O’Rourke as Vice President, Partnerships. They will drive Enago’s relationships and business with publishers, research institutions and the professional and academic publishing sector as a whole.

Clarivate Analytics plc (NYSE: CCC; CCC.WS), a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation, and Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501,”Hitachi”) today announced the launch of a new solution in Japan, which is designed to streamline research and evaluation of worldwide patent documents.