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ConTech 2018 features the pioneering content owners who have embraced new intelligent technologies to change the way they create, manage and sell their content and those content users and information specialists who are using this new generation of tools to revolutionise the way they gain insight from content.

John Wiley and Sons Inc. has announced that the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) has chosen to extend their publishing partnership with Wiley with the transition of their international journal Near Surface Geophysics.

Open data has become more embedded in the research community – 64% of survey respondents reveal they made their data openly available in 2018. However, a surprising number of respondents (60%) had never heard of the FAIR principles, a guideline to enhance the reusability of academic data.

Cambridge University Press is moving four more of its journals from a traditional subscription model to Gold Open Access in a further demonstration of its commitment to the development of a sustainable, more open future for academic publishing.

International Academic Publishing Group Peter Lang is pleased to announce a major distribution and print on demand agreement with Hachette Livre Distribution and Lightning Source France, improving the speed to market and efficiencies in production, which will go live in autumn 2018. The agreement covers two main aspects:

Jisc Collections and De Gruyter have signed an agreement tailored to the needs of United Kingdom educational and research institutions

Today, Clarivate Analytics and UNSILO announce a partnership to pilot artificial intelligence capabilities in ScholarOne, Clarivate Analytics’ leading submission and review system.

ConTech 2018 chairs Sam Herbert, of 67Bricks, and Vincent Cassidy, of the IET, explore some of the key issues for publishers looking to become more data-driven in the run up to November’s event.

Overleaf has updated its popular collaborative writing and publishing tool to offer enhanced collaboration and editing features.

The discovery platform ScienceOpen is partnering with Compuscript/International Science Editing in China to develop new products tailored specifically for the Chinese market.

Taylor & Francis has extended its existing contract and will continue to host, deliver, and market all of its research journals on Literatum, Atypon’s online publishing and website development platform.

The Nature Index 2018 Rising Stars supplement (attached) shows that Chinese institutions are leading the world in rapidly increasing high-quality research outputs. 51 of the top 100 most improved institutions across the globe are from this scientific powerhouse, with 28 of those showing growth above 50% since 2015.