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PREreview and eLife are pleased to announce today that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has awarded a grant to the non-profit organisations. The investment will boost their efforts to enable more diverse communities of researchers to participate in the open peer review of preprints.

Open access (OA) and the broad sharing of research outputs has been empirically shown to accelerate scientific progress and benefit society and individuals at scale through improved health outcomes, socioeconomic mobility, and environmental well-being, to name a few.

There’s a phenomenal speaker line up. The event is full of inspirational content about the very latest challenges, technologies and transformation stories. There’s also a world class audience including CEOs, CDOs, CTOs, heads of digital, user experience, data and analytics, senior publishers and product managers as well as publishing and content technologists, info and knowledge managers and researchers.

In a further move to support open research, more journals in the Nature Portfolio – including Nature itself – will now provide authors with the opportunity to openly share their data, thanks to an integration with Figshare.

Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today revealed its 2022 list of Highly Cited Researchers™ – individuals at universities, research institutes and commercial organizations who have demonstrated a disproportionate level of significant and broad influence in their field or fields of research.

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) releases Pathways to Research™, a new proprietary suite of products consisting of curated research summaries, to help students build college-level research skills. EBSCO will roll out subject-specific Pathways to Research products designed to bridge the gap from encyclopedic and general resources often used in high school, to the more authoritative, journal-based sources needed for college-level research.

Emerald Publishing’s 2022 Time for Change survey, now in its fourth year, reveals an increased emphasis on open research, with 46% of academics considering open access and sharing of open data sets, compared to 29% four years ago. Despite the interest in open research, funding remains a challenge, with 42% citing it as a problem in 2022 compared to 26% last year.

In scientific studies, key research resources such as antibodies are underspecified by authors, making it unclear which resource was used in a study (Vasilevsky et al, 2013). When key reagents are not well specified, the study is not reproducible.Irreproducibility is due to underspecified resources, and is a lingering problem with a significant economic impact (Freedman et al., 2015)

The Wikipedia Library and leading academic publisher Taylor & Francis today announced a renewed partnership, providing active Wikipedia editors automatic access to the journal articles they need.

The digitization of scientific content is a revolution that has yet to reach its full potential. In this opening keynote Rob Terry – TDR - World Health Organisation will make the case for open science and the need for systems thinking which may require a complete re-set for how science is undertaken in order to tackle the global challenges of climate change, food security and future pandemics.

The Berlin Institute for Scholarly Publishing in partnership with Digital Science are delighted to announce the inaugural APE Award for Innovation in Scholarly Communication. The prize will be awarded to an individual who has demonstrated innovation in scholarly communication. The innovation may be specific, for example through business models and technology, or through long-term contributions in theory and practice.

PLOS has recently joined our network, bringing with it a prestigious new collection on Climate Change and Human Health. Our users will be able to access research outputs that address all aspects of the intersection of climate and health, from the changing burden of communicable and noncommunicable disease to the effects of extreme events on health systems,