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We’re delighted to announce that registration is now open for the fourth annual NISO Plus conference (February 14-16, 2023), which will once again take place online, and across two blocks of time — Americas morning/Europe, Middle East & Africa afternoon and Americas evening/Asia Pacific morning — to allow maximum participation from all around the world.

Kudos and Impact Science have announced the launch of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Knowledge Cooperative. This cross-publisher initiative will help companies, educators, politicians, the media and the wider public understand the evidence around EDI issues, as well as increasing the visibility and reach of EDI-related publications within academia.

Building on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to generate books, Springer Nature has invested in, and developed, an AI-based Digital Editing language polishing tool which is designed to add value to scientific publishing. This was done via AJE, part of Research Square Company. 

A new series of open access journals from Cambridge University Press will address global challenges by bringing together researchers across national and subject boundaries.

Do you think that charges associated with Open Access publishing are currently being managed across stakeholder groups in a transparent and trustworthy way? What changes would you like to see taking place in the system? Do we need community governance, new standards, or something else?

OpenAthens, which makes access to knowledge easy through single sign-on solutions, opens applications for its Best publisher user experience (UX) award 2023. The award is a fantastic opportunity for online publishers to demonstrate how their innovative work improves user experience. Publishers must submit their application form by Friday 18 November 2022.

Aligning with the strategic importance of improving submission quality, the Charlesworth Group and Writefull have now partnered to offer authors Writefull for free within the Charlesworth AI Paper Checking Service. The aim is to reduce the likelihood of manuscript rejection and help quicken the publication process.

IOP Publishing (IOPP) has reached an unlimited transformative agreement with the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) allowing affiliated researchers to publish their work open access (OA) at no cost to them. The fees for publishing their work openly will be covered centrally by UNAM, a public research university ranked as one of the best and biggest universities in Latin America.  

Morressier is an exciting organisation that is revolutionising the way scientific research and discovery works. By introducing new and innovative technologies to research and STM content Morressier is truly a content pioneer that can stand firmly at the heart of the ConTech mission.

ResearchGate, the professional network for worldwide researchers, and Maximum Academic Press (MAP), an academic publisher which has launched 17 journals, have established a content partnership. The goal of the partnership is to boost the visibility and accessibility of gold open access publications, consistent with MAP's mission of publishing high quality open science contents and making them available to scholars worldwide.

PeerJ, the award-winning Open Access publisher, has announced the launch of the IABO Hub on behalf of the International Association for Biological Oceanography in an initial 5 year publishing partnership. The Hub is a community-led scholarly publishing channel for IABO’s members.

Two of the tertiary education sector’s expert bodies in digital technology have formally agreed to work more closely together on a range of strategically important themes.  Following the signing of a three-year memorandum of understanding, which runs until July 2025, Jisc and UCISA will initially deepen collaboration around the following subjects