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Future Science Group, publisher of BioTechniques, partners with PubGrade to offer advertisers an integrated contextual advertising platform across their journal portfolio.

Scholarly publishing technology provider, HighWire, has today announced a new journal hosting agreement with BMJ. Spanning the next five years, it coincides with the launch of a partnership innovation lab, bringing together some ofthe best minds from BMJ and HighWire to explore future initiatives in scholarly publishing.

MDPI is pleased to announce the release of a new functionality giving the possibility for researchers and scholars to endorse, and formally recommend articles to their colleagues.

The Web of Science Group, a Clarivate Analytics company, is proud to announce that Springer Publishing Company, the innovative nursing, behavioral and health sciences, and medical publisher is moving its manuscript submission and peer review system to ScholarOne. The new agreement covers all of Springer Publishing Company’s journals.

Jisc has announced a new appointment to its leadership team - Karen Foster. From 17 September, Karen will lead a new data analytics directorate as executive director.

Identity and access management specialist OpenAthens has announced the details of its annual Access Lab conference which will take place on Thursday 19 March 2020 at America Square Conference Centre, London.

Digital Science has today launched a report focusing on falsifiability and reproducibility in scientific research. The report addresses three areas including appropriate documentation and sharing of research data, clear analysis and processes, and the sharing of code.

Research Square, a mission-driven business focused on supporting researchers with publication, is pleased to announce the appointment of Rachel Burley as President, effective September 16, 2019.

Clarivate Analytics, a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation, today announced that it has acquired the business of SequenceBase, a leader in providing patent sequence information and search technology to the biotech, pharmaceutical and chemical industries.

Springer Nature Group announced today that Frank Vrancken Peeters, currently Chief Commercial Officer, is to become the group’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with immediate effect. Daniel Ropers is to leave the company, as per his agreement with the Board, having ensured a smooth transition with his Springer Nature colleague.

In late June, around 400 delegates – library directors and their staff – from throughout Europe convened at the 48th Liber Conference in Dublin. SPARC Europe was involved in the joint organisation of a pre-conference workshop titled How European policies and legislation affect academic library leaders and recent changes to copyright, public sector information and Horizon Europe.

A new whitepaper released by Publish Interactive, a research publishing tech provider, says that publishers of high-value B2B market analysis must ensure they understand how their customers use content to remain competitive.