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The Microbiology Society and Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMCAS) are pleased to announce their transformative agreement starting in 2022. The Publish and Read model will allow researchers at affiliated institutions to publish an unlimited number of Open Access (OA) articles in hybrid and fully OA titles, as well as having full read access to the Society’s journals portfolio.

ResearchGate and IOP Publishing (IOPP) today announced that 4,750 full-text articles from selected IOPP open access (OA) and hybrid journals can now be accessed on the...

Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, and Forschungszentrum Jülich have today announced that they will be supporting the Open Access Monitor (OA Monitor), Germany by making metadata from Scopus, the abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, available to the database free of charge.

EDP Sciences and the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI) have announced today that six mathematics journals will continue to publish in open access under the Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) model in 2022*.

The Julius Kühn Institute, a federal research institute in Germany, and the open science publisher Frontiers announce their institutional partnership agreement. 

The Public Library of Science (PLOS) today announced that PLOS Sustainability and Transformation published its initial cohort of papers. The journal’s mission is to empower key decision makers to take immediate action for the sustainability of our environment, our economy, and the societies around the world who depend on it. The journal has so far received more than 70 submissions from researchers around the world.

Research Square’s innovative In Reviewservice has expanded to include more than 500 Springer Nature journal titles. The milestone was surpassed this week after 48 additional Springer Nature journals were integrated into the service. 

One of the world’s largest open access journal publishers, Hindawi, is set to expand its use of AI-based technology Writefull. Writefull, which is part of Digital Science, is an AI-based language platform that helps authors, institutions, publishers, and typesetters with all stages of manuscript and academic book and journal production. It applies machine learning, trained on millions of scientific papers. 

Nature is to host its first dedicated gender equity conference, which will spotlight women leaders and role models in academia, research and policy, to mark International Women’s Day. Breaking Barriers for Gender Equity Through Research, a free virtual event which will take place on 9 and 10 March, will highlight the role of research towards achieving gender equality, and create new opportunities for networking and mentoring.

The Italian National Research Council, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) has signed an Open Access publishing consortium deal with Gold OA publisher Frontiers. The agreement comes into effect...

Identity and access management specialist OpenAthens has unveiled the details of its annual Access Lab conference which takes place online on Tuesday 22 March 2022, from 13:00 – 18:00 GMT.

Open Books, the new Open Access imprint of University of Buckingham Press, has released its first title: Grow and Evolve Your Business edited by Jonathan Reuvid and including a host of high profile contributors.