American Chemical Society terminates its Philadelphia spring national meeting
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has decided, after careful analysis of a variety of inputs, that for the safety and protection of its members, staff and the citizens of Philadelphia, it will terminate its Spring 2020 National Meeting & Expo scheduled for March 22-26, 2020, in Philadelphia.
Digital Science welcomes Scismic to the family to help improve diversity in the STEM...
Digital Science, a technology company serving stakeholders across the research ecosystem, welcomes Boston-based Scismic to the Digital Science family of companies.
Springer Nature Group will be Carbon Neutral in 2020
Springer Nature Group commits to be net carbon neutral this year, as part of an ongoing reduction in emissions and broader responsible business programme.
London Book Fair cancelled as major publishers pull out over coronavirus fears
Reed Exhibitions has today announced that The London Book Fair 2020, scheduled to take place at Olympia, London, from 10 to 12 March will be cancelled following the escalation of COVID-19 Coronavirus in Europe.
Jisc, UK institutions and Wiley agree ground-breaking deal
The most extensive UK transitional agreement to date accelerates open access publishing and expands access to one of the most substantial collections of scholarly content.
SAGE launches portal to streamline open access publishing process
SAGE Publishing announces the launch of a new portal that enables authors, consortia, libraries, and funders to manage the open access publishing workflow. Named the SAGE Open Access Portal, the platform currently supports SAGE Choice, the publisher’s hybrid Open Access (OA) publishing option, for 900+ journals. Later in 2020, it will be extended to support SAGE’s 180+ pure Gold OA journals.
American Chemical Society signs its first North American ‘read and publish’ agreement with Louisiana...
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Louisiana State University (LSU) today announced a transformative open access agreement.
Forschungszentrum Jülich and Frontiers develop world’s largest pure open access framework agreement
A successful outcome has been reached in the negotiations between Forschungszentrum Jülich and leading open access publisher Frontiers. The two partners signed a Memorandum of Understanding at Forschungszentrum Jülich for a pilot project that will enable researchers to publish in Frontiers’ journals through a simplified publishing process with university libraries managing the publication costs centrally.
Wiley and FinELib sign transitional agreement continuing expansion in open access
John Wiley & Sons, a global leader in research and education, and FinELib, a Finnish consortium of higher education and research institutions, have announced a new three-year license that combines an open access and subscription agreement effective February 2020.
SAGE signing a transformative agreement with Sweden’s Bibsam Consortium
SAGE Publishing is signing a new open access publishing agreement with Bibsam Consortium, serving 42 of the member institutions including universities, university colleges, and government funded research institutions.
Upcoming 2020 conferences, events and training courses from ALPSP.
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has announced their upcoming 2020 conferences, events and training courses.
De Gruyter and nine universities in the Netherlands sign read and publish agreement
UKB, the consortium of university libraries in the Netherlands and De Gruyter have signed an agreement to provide default open access publishing in 305 hybrid journals to nine Dutch universities. Subscription access to the complete De Gruyter eJournal collection (347 journals) is also included.