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GetFTR has today announced that ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, has integrated with the service as part of an expanded offering for publishers. 

Antonia Seymour, CEO of IOP Publishing, has been elected to the position of President of the Publishers Association. Antonia succeeds Nigel Newton, CEO and Founder of Bloomsbury, who remains an Officer of the Publishers Association.

Two new agreements between DOAJ, the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) and the Council of Atlantic Academic Libraries – Conseil des bibliothèques postsecondaires de l’Atlantique  (CAAL-CBPA), have been announced today. These agreements will provide a vital boost to the sustainability of key open access infrastructure, essential to the future of science and research in Canada and around the world.

Working in partnership with the British Pharmacological Society (BPS), the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine (FPM) and the Faculty of Public Health (FPH), we have developed an e-learning programme for the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), aimed at facilitating the wider participation of healthcare professionals in research.

SciBite, an Elsevier company and leading provider of semantic software solutions for the life sciences industry, has won an Innovative Practices Award at Bio-IT World 2023 for its collaboration with the City of Hope, a world-renowned cancer research and treatment center, on the Precision Oncology Software Environment Interoperable Data Ontologies Network (POSEIDON) project.

“Community over Commercialization” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week (October 23-29). This theme encourages a candid conversation about which approaches to open scholarship prioritize the best interests of the public and the academic community—and which do not. 

Our Read & Publish Open Access (OA) initiative continues to go from strength to strength. Over 600 institutions in 41 countries are now participating, and this is helping to drive significant growth in OA publishing in our leading peer-reviewed hybrid journals (Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology) and our fully OA journals (Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open).

The Public Library of Science (PLOS) is pleased to announce an agreement with the University of Padua to facilitate unlimited publishing across all 12 PLOS titles with no fees for researchers. This agreement encompasses PLOS’ three innovative publishing models, ensuring researchers from the University of Padua to benefit from frictionless, fee-free publishing with PLOS.

JMIR Publications and the Society of Digital Psychiatry (SODP) have announced a new partnership aimed at advancing research in the field of digital mental health. This collaboration will focus on supporting education and knowledge sharing in the fast moving world of digital psychiatry and establishing priorities for the space, including identifying current gaps in knowledge and determining areas for future study, with particular emphasis on addressing disparities in access to care. 

The Educational Research Institute of Slovenia has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible Educational Research Institute researchers may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to them and with a simplified process. Articles may benefit from a 10% membership discount. 

Earlier this year, PLOS joined over 290 other publishers in signing the UN SDG Publisher’s Compact, an agreement to inspire action among publishers in advancing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by actively seeking and promoting scientific content related to the goals, as well as committing to sustainable actions across our business. 

Oxford University Press (OUP) has today announced a new agreement with the Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration & Innovation (PALCI). Under the agreement, more than 500,000 users at PALCI’s member institutions will benefit from increased access to OUP’s high-quality scholarly content via Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO).