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The Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) calls on all scholarly publishers to open the abstracts of their publications, and specifically to distribute them through Crossref, in order to facilitate large-scale access and promote discovery of critical research.

Emerald Publishing is delighted and humbled to have won Independent Publisher of the Year and Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year at the 2020 Independent Publishers Guild, Independent Publishing Awards.

Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, has released a regional landscape report highlighting the current trends in indigenous research across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Region.

In the Nature Index 2020 Science Cities supplement, released today, Beijing is named as the top ‘science hotspot’, a position held since 2016, with Boston and New York retaining their standing in the top five.

Clarivate Plc, today released a report, "Identifying Research Fronts in the Web of Science: From metrics to meaning". Latest analysis from the Institute for Scientific Information™ at Clarivate uses clusters of citations from recently published papers to show the hot and emerging scientific topics that are currently attracting exceptional attention.

“Preparation of Space Experiments” edited by international leading expert Dr. Vladimir Pletser, Director of Space Training Operations at Blue Abyss is the 5,000th Open Access book published by IntechOpen and its milestone publication!

Karger Publishers is accelerating the transition to Open Access (OA) with seven more OA journals, transformative OA agreements and additional "Open" actions.

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today released its StatShot report for July 2020 reflecting reported revenue for all tracked categories, including Trade (consumer publications), K-12 Instructional Materials, Higher Education Course Materials, Professional Publishing, and University Presses.

Springer Nature and ResearchGate have agreed to move forward with a long-term content syndication partnership starting in Q4 of 2020. This cooperation expands the scope of a two-phase pilot, which began in 2019 and has been evaluated in a white paper published today.

According to Bloomberg, Springer Nature is preparing to kick off a Frankfurt initial public offering, people familiar with the matter said. The company targets to announce its intention to float as soon as this month, according to the people. It plans to sell about 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) of new stock in the offering, said the people, asking not to be identified because the information is private.

As announced at the end of APE 2020 Conference in January, the years-long organiser Arnoud de Kemp had found a solution for the future of APE and that he would enter into a co-operation with the Walter de Gruyter Foundation, the family charity set up by the heirs of the publisher Walter de Gruyter in Berlin.

SAGE and Hindawi have recently entered into a publishing partnership agreement whereby the latter will publish and develop three SAGE gold open access journals for a period of at least three years.