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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.

Our mission to ensure scientists and researchers never miss vital research is more important than ever with the world facing the huge challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic. This challenge can only be solved through the work of scientists, academics, clinicians and economists across the world.

De Gruyter has just published a collection of twelve essays from leading social scientists on the Corona pandemic as a free digital pamphlet. 12 perspectives on the pandemic: International social science thought leaders reflect on Covid-19 brings together leading scholars from around the world.

Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact, has today announced that it is opening up its leading research communications platform – Kudos Pro – to the global academic community, with complimentary access for 60 days.

The 2020 Nature Index Annual Tables show strong performances from institutions with considerable funding and reputation as well as rising stars

Scholarly publishers are working together to maximize the efficiency of peer review, ensuring that key work related to COVID-19 is reviewed and published as quickly and openly as possible.

Today, the European Commission together with several partners launched a European COVID-19 Data Platform to enable the rapid collection and sharing of available research data. The platform, part of the ERAvsCorona Action Plan, marks another milestone in the EU's efforts to support researchers in Europe and around the world in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak.

Research Square, known for their multidisciplinary preprint platform, reached 20,000 preprints just 18 months after its launch in 2018. Having recently celebrated 10,000 preprints in Dec. 2019, the platform doubled the number of preprints in the last 4 months and is effectively the world’s fastest growing preprint platform.

To help researchers access structured and unstructured data quickly, Enago has developed a cloud-based AI research service, CLARA, which has a corpus of thousands of papers. This tool uses advanced AI, allowing users to make specific queries to the collections of papers.

Taylor & Francis welcomes the new guidance from cOAlition S on transformative arrangements for Journals. cOAlition S have clearly listened to feedback from the community, and we thank them for this.

AIP Publishing (AIPP) is pleased to announce the appointment of Alexandra (Alix) Vance as its new chief executive, effective August 1, 2020. AIP Publishing is a wholly owned but independently operated subsidiary of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), a 501(c)(3) membership corporation of scientific societies.

Bloomsbury, the leading independent publisher, today reveals plans to support independent bookshops during the COVID-19 crisis by offering a referral incentive for Bloomsbury titles and sharing its ecommerce and distribution channels.