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The OASPA annual conference brings the open access community together to discuss new developments and innovations in scholarly publishing, and unite in our shared goal to enable research around the world to be openly accessible. 

De Gruyter, independent scholarly publisher and founder of the University Press Library distribution model, is launching De Gruyter eBound, a not-for-profit foundation, in the United States. The initiative’s goal is to support the publishing, sustainability, and accessibility of mission-driven scholarly monographs for not-for-profit and Open Access publishers.

The American Chemical Society (ACS) today announced that Thomas Connelly, Jr., Ph.D., will retire from his position as ACS chief executive officer at the end of the year after more than seven years of serving in this role. In addition to effectively navigating the organization through the unprecedented challenges of a global pandemic, he has led the organization as it strengthened its core values, transformed its membership and launched new initiatives.

BMJ is pleased to announce that it is an official participating member of the  STM Integrity Hub, a potentially powerful platform being built to detect integrity issues in manuscripts submitted for publication to scholarly journals.

Taylor & Francis Group is one of the organizations supporting a new ORCID initiative that will improve the visibility of more researchers and reduce the administrative burden for their institutions. The Global Participation Fund (GPF) will provide grants for community outreach and technical integration in parts of the world currently underrepresented in ORCID participation.

The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) is pleased to announce the launch of two new journals this spring, ACS Applied Engineering Materials and ACS Applied Optical Materials. The journals will be guided by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Editor in Chief Kirk Schanze, Ph.D., and each will be under the leadership of a deputy editor.

We have announced the upcoming launches of three new journals themed around sustainability, as part of our ongoing commitment to support the chemical sciences in facing up to global sustainability challenges.

Cactus Communications (CACTUS) celebrates 20 years of excellence and innovation today. Founded in 2002 with the aim of helping researchers break the language barrier and getting published in international journals, CACTUS is now a multimillion-dollar technology company with 1200 full-time employees, 4500 freelancers, and 800 contractors from over 190 countries.

Research performing and funding organizations increasingly use scholarly application programming interfaces (APIs) to build insights and inform strategy, to the point where it is...

The Spanish research community’s growing commitment to open access publishing has been bolstered by the announcement of a new agreement between the Consortium of Catalan University Services (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya, CSUC) and gold open access publisher Frontiers.

Research Square Company and the Medical Agency for Research and Statistics (MARS) have signed a collaboration agreement to support the success of clinical and regulatory scientists in the Middle East and North Africa. Through this joint agreement, Research Square Company will support MARS’ training and consulting efforts through discounted services to MARS trainees via the company’s American Journal Experts (AJE) division. These services include English-language editing and translation, manuscript formatting, webinars, and conferences. 

ScienceOpen is pleased to announce Genome Integrity as the newest addition to our journal discovery network. This fully open-access journal will be published by ScienceOpen, bringing to you high-quality research titles in the field, as well as the most recent advancements in the understanding of the processes that regulate genome integrity maintenance.