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Kumsal Bayazit takes over today as Elsevier’s Chief Executive Officer, replacing Ron Mobed, who joined Elsevier in 2011. Kumsal becomes the first female CEO in the company’s close-to-140-year history.

Cambridge University Press and the Jisc Collections have reached a progressive agreement, which will enable UK universities and colleges to make a sustainable transition to publishing more Open Access content in the publisher’s journals.

As a community of 140 organisations who are committed to the advancement of open access publishing and who represent the majority of the of the OA journal output in the DOAJ*, OASPA is of course very supportive of the intentions of Plan S, as we commented previously at the beginning of October.

Largest OA publisher calls for cOAlition S policy to be evidence-based and focus on stimulating ‘demand’ as well as ‘supply’

IWA Publishing is excited to announce that through our recent partnership with Knowledge Unlatched (KU), a library crowd-funding initiative, we have made 14 of our books Open Access. Titles are available to download for free on the IWA Publishing website, the KU platform and the Directory of Open Access Books. Among the titles are two new releases including Clean Water Using Solar and Wind and Water, Energy, and Environment – A Primer.

Silverchair announced today the appointments of Will Schweitzer as Senior Vice President, Product Management, and Dustin Smith as Director of New Product Development and Innovation. The new roles will be part of Silverchair’s Executive Team and will be responsible both for developing the Silverchair Platform and tools and for investigating new product opportunities.

Nature Food, Nature Cancer and Nature Reviews Earth and Environment will join the Nature Research portfolio of journals from January 2020. These new titles will allow Springer Nature to continue to meet the ever-evolving needs of the research community by publishing significant discoveries related to some of the most pressing challenges of our time.

Aries Systems is pleased to announce the adoption of its web-based manuscript tracking and peer review system, Editorial Manager, by the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS). The Society’s two journals, Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing and Oncology Nursing Forum, have transitioned to Editorial Manager from a previous system.

The Dutch universities will give open access an extra boost from 2019 by starting a pilot titled ‘You share, we take care’ to make publications available after six months in collaboration with researchers. 

UCL Press has launched its new open access megajournal ‘UCL Open’ and will start accepting academic research submissions from today (January 31, 2019).

Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, today announced Kumsal Bayazit has been appointed Chief Executive Officer effective February 15, 2019.

The Institute for Scientific Information, the ‘university’ of Web of Science Group today launched its Global Research Reports – a new series of publications aimed at those who deal with research in academia, corporations, publishers and governments to inform, to stimulate debate and to demonstrate the rich information potential of research data.