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Morressier, the platform for early-stage research, today announced the appointment of Lauren Kane as Chief Strategy Officer, effective June 1. Kane will drive Morressier’s global expansion and oversee the launch of the company’s US subsidiary with offices in Washington, DC.

Frontiers is thrilled to announce a major milestone has been reached this week: the publication of our 150,000th open-access article!

Being able to reach out to colleagues, extended networks and friends is more important now than ever before. When we launched our free weekly webinars we hoped to do just that and we have been overwhelmed by the response we have had.

Journal of European Landscape (JEL), an openly accessible, peer-reviewed academic outlet, was launched by Amsterdam University Press (AUP) with the aim to bridge the gap between heritage and future-proof landscapes, between local and international perspectives, between what is and what is only in the eye of the beholder.

IOP Publishing (IOPP) has introduced a formal co-review policy, to help early-career researchers gain experience in peer review while ensuring they get credit for the work they contribute.

Digital Science and Research Square are pleased to announce a partnership which will see Dimensions Badges display on all Research Square preprints. The US-based company behind the world’s fastest-growing preprint platform will use Dimensions to provide early citation data on preprints and will provide four different types of data.

The ConTech Forum will be staged virtually on the 9th June 2020. The Forum is designed to continue the conversations started at ConTech 2019 and start the process of looking forward to ConTech 2020.

The Charlesworth Author Services team is continuing to support the global researcher community by extending our new series of 15/20 minute bite-size webinars, running from the 13th to 20th May.

Cengage, an education and technology company, today announced that its merger agreement with McGraw-Hill has been terminated by mutual agreement due to a prolonged regulatory review process and the inability to agree to a divestitures package with the U.S. Department of Justice. In conjunction with the announcement, Cengage reaffirmed its commitment to student affordability and the company’s ongoing transformation to digital.

Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the international initiative for Open Access (OA), is pleased to announce the launch of the seventh round of funding today. It includes the KU Select Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) collection of books familiar to libraries, as well as nearly 20 discipline-specific collections.

Oxford University Press (OUP) today announces the first two titles in the new flagship open access journal series. The Oxford Open series launches today with Oxford Open Immunologyand Oxford Open Materials Science. This is an important step forward in OUP’s open access publishing programme.

Iowa State University Library and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) today announced a three-year Open Access agreement that allows researchers to publish in PLOS’ suite of journals without incurring Article Processing Charges (APCs).