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We are excited to announce our seventh annual New Directions in Scholarly Publishing Seminar, happening October 4 and 5 at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Conference Center in Washington, DC, and online.

Thanks to the support of libraries participating in Direct to Open (D2O), the MIT Press will publish its full list (see below) of 2023 scholarly monographs and edited collections open access on the MIT Press Direct platform. 

eLife and PREreview are pleased to announce that the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) will provide them with technical and funding support to implement the COAR Notify technology. With this support, the organisations will work to connect separate services within the ‘publish, review, curate’ ecosystem.

The world’s largest linked research database, Dimensions, will grow its knowledge base even further, thanks to a new partnership with the world’s largest university press, Oxford University Press (OUP).

PubGrade, a leader in scientific digital display advertising, and Sage, a global academic publisher of books, journals, and library resources, have launched an advertising partnership that allows clients to leverage contextually targeted ad campaigns across all Sage journals.

Digital Science is pleased to announce a limited and exclusive beta launch of Dimensions AI Assistant, a new research tool designed to enhance how users engage with the wealth of knowledge available on Dimensions, among the world’s largest linked research databases.

IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization advancing technology for humanity, announced today that 12 of IEEE’s new fully open access journals launched in 2020 were accepted for indexing by Clarivate.

Voting members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved the formation of a Working Group to develop a Recommended Practice for operationalizing open access (OA) business processes.

In accordance with STM’s mission to advance credible and accessible research, STM has joined a coalition of US federal agencies, organizations, and universities in supporting the Year of Open Science and NASA’s Transform to Open Science initiative. 

Springer Nature, the world’s leading publisher of protocols, has acquired protocols.io - a secure platform for developing and sharing reproducible methods. 

Don’t miss your chance to register for SSP’s highly interactive workshop, “Open Access: Understanding Mission, Models, and Mandates,” back by popular demand for its third year, July 19 and 20. Led by Professor and Coordinator for Research and Teaching Professional Development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Scholarly Kitchen Chef Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

Oable, Wiley’s cross-publisher payment and reporting solution for institutions, and RightsLink for Scientific Communications, the industry-trusted platform for shared OA management by Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), are partnering to connect libraries and publishers globally.