Editorial

New Communication & Media Studies Network Also Offers Time-Saving Transfer Service. Having an article rejected is a fact of academic life but a new journal network launched by Taylor & Francis aims to make that a more positive experience for researchers in Communication and Media Studies.

Cactus Communications (CACTUS), a science communication and technology company, is ready to celebrate Peer Review Week 2023 from September 25 to 29, 2023. Editage, the flagship brand of CACTUS devoted to empowering researchers to achieve publication success and facilitating robust peer review processes, will be celebrating this global event that recognizes the essential role of peer review in scholarly publishing.

Introducing Immune System, Karger’s latest Open Access journal. The new peer-reviewed journal will focus in Immunology with a special attention to Environmental Immunology, Immunomics and Immunotherapy, bridging clinical, preclinical and translational investigations. 

Editage — a brand of Cactus Communications (CACTUS) —  a science communication and technology company —  unveiled its publication support service tailored for US researchers. This comprehensive service aims to assist researchers at every step, from manuscript crafting to its broader dissemination

Oxford University Press (OUP) is launching Oxford Intersections, a new resource combining original research from multiple academic disciplines centred on a complex global topic.

Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Society for Open, Reproducible and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE). 

Frontiers has today published a new author policy designed to help prevent cases of “authorship-for-sale” among its research publications, a term used throughout the industry which refers to the unethical practice of buying or selling authorship on research papers. 

In January 2021, Cell Press gave author teams publishing in our primary research articles the opportunity to share information at the acceptance stage about inclusion and diversity topics relating to their paper as well as the option to compile an inclusion and diversity statement to appear near the acknowledgments of their published paper.

Publisher’s latest open access (OA) report shows the growth, impact and value of its OA portfolio and how the company is delivering greater transparency around its publishing activities. Authors publishing open access (OA) with Springer Nature see their work used more than if they had published with other mixed model or pure OA publishers. 

The American Chemical Society (ACS) is excited to announce two new grants and three new awards that align with the ACS Board of Directors’ Campaign for a Sustainable Future, which was announced in 2022. The campaign aims to advance chemistry innovations to address the challenges articulated in the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.

A deal has been agreed for CABI to publish all future editions of the Royal Entomological Society’s (RES) series Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. The much-loved series has helped amateur and professional entomologists with insect identification and taxonomy since 1949.

IWA Publishing (IWAP), a leading international publisher of water, wastewater and environmental publications and The Charlesworth Group, are pleased to announce a significant Read & Publish (R&P) agreement between IWAP and two renowned Chinese institutions – Chang'an University and Wuhan University.