OpenAthens retains contract for NHS in England
OpenAthens, which is part of Jisc, has announced that its contract to provide secure, single sign-on facilities to NHS staff in England has been renewed. The National Institute for Care Excellence (NICE), which procures services on behalf of the NHS in England, has renewed the three-year deal following a rigorous selection process.
New partnership with the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution
Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) is excited to announce a new partnership with the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE), a non-partisan group of practicing ecologists and evolutionary biologists throughout Canada.
IOP Publishing announce Nuclear Fusion will become fully Open Access
IOP Publishing (IOPP) has announced that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) journal Nuclear Fusion (NF) will become fully open access to reflect the increasing demand for more accessible and open science and funders' mandates requiring authors to publish their work in open access (OA) journals.
UKRI publishes updated information to support funded research organizations and researchers to meet its...
UKRI has published updated information to support funded research organisations and researchers to meet its new open access policy. Peer-reviewed research articles that acknowledge UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding have been required to comply with UKRI’s open access policy since 1 April 2022.
IOP Publishing extends open access publishing with its first three Transformative Agreements in the US
IOP Publishing (IOPP) has signed three new Transformative Agreements (TAs) that will accelerate open access (OA) publishing and extend access to high quality research in the United States (US). The three-year read and publish (R&P) agreements with Princeton University, the University of Central Florida and Connecticut College offer unlimited publishing in all IOPP hybrid and gold OA journals.
Springer Nature expands AI-driven digital editing services to books authors and editors for free
Springer Nature has today announced a new pilot with American Journal Experts (AJE)* which will see its AI-driven editing services being made available to book authors and editors. It will enable authors to have their manuscripts improved by grammatical errors being corrected as well as improving phrasing and word choice.
82% of European physics researchers are unaware of Plan S
Findings are from a new global study ‘OA in physics: researcher perspectives’ commissioned by leading learned society physics publishers. A new global study from AIP Publishing, the American Physical Society (APS), IOP Publishing (IOPP) and Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA) has found that 82% of physics researchers based in Europe are unaware of Plan S.
Springer Nature and University of California announce first Nature open access agreement in the...
The agreement extends landmark 2020 deal, which has tripled open access articles from UC authors in Springer Nature journals. Building on the success of their 2020 landmark agreement, Springer Nature and the University of California (UC) announce that UC authors will now have the option to publish their research open access (OA) in the prestigious Nature titles.
IOP Publishing offers authors discounted OA publishing across all its journals 
Researchers from countries with lower-middle income economies, as categorised by the World Bank, can now choose open access (OA) publishing in any of IOP Publishing’s (IOPP) journals for a flat charge of £500. The policy builds on IOPP’s existing approach that enables researchers from countries with low-income economies to publish OA for free in any of IOPP’s fully OA or hybrid OA journals.
Springer Nature welcomes extension of Journal Impact Factors to include arts and humanities titles
Springer Nature welcomes Clarivate’s decision to include all Web of Science (WoS) humanities, arts and behavioural sciences titles in its Journal Citation Reports (JCR) from 2023. With over 175 years publishing across the humanities and social sciences (HSS), Springer Nature sees this as a positive move in helping to ensure a more equal metric landscape for all high quality journals, regardless of discipline, region, or publication type.
OpenAthens announces dedicated customer support team in Singapore
Single sign-on provider OpenAthens is pleased to announce the recruitment of new support team members based in Singapore. The move comes as a direct result of an upsurge in demand for remote access to research materials in the Asia-Pacific region.
Wolters Kluwer expands commitment to open science
To support the evolution of medical publishing toward higher velocity exchange of scientific findings, Wolters Kluwer, Health announced two key additions to the Lippincott® portfolio. The Lippincott Preprints, powered by Figshare, serves as a forum for sharing pre-review medical findings with the global medical community and the Lippincott Data Repository enables researchers to share data from their clinical experiments for greater transparency and deeper validation of findings.