Editorial

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.

IOP Publishing (IOPP) has partnered with TaskAdept, a leader in improving publication ethics by driving forward standards of ethics and data statements with a free online ethics statement generation tool: EthicsGen.

Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that 15 of its Lippincott healthcare titles received 28 wins in the 35th annual Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX) Competition. Seven of these titles received the prestigious Grand Awards including PRS Global Open, Neurology Today, Nurse Educator, The Nurse Practitioner, American Journal of Nursing, Nursing Management, and Emergency Medicine News.

To further strengthen the connection between science and the media, Karger Publishers  and Agência Bori have partnered to routinely deliver scientific papers to the Brazilian press. Starting in August 2023, Agência Bori will select Karger’s papers with journalistic relevance and Brazilian authorship to publicize to its community of more than 2,600 registered journalists. 

Paper outlines roles for every part of the research landscape to help improve trust in research – including journalists. Who’s responsible for upholding research integrity, mitigating misinformation or disinformation and increasing trust in research? Everyone – even those reporting on research – says a new article published by leading research integrity experts.