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CER is a growing area that involves researchers and communities collaborating to advance community goals and science. With the rise in queries from authors and submissions across our journals on CER, we developed these guidelines to support transparent reporting of studies that include community participation. 

Following a recertification assessment by BSI, IET Inspec has been recommended for recertification to the ISO9001:2015 quality standard for its production system.

Global research and education leader Wiley today announced a new three-year agreement with the Slovenian Academic Consortium (CTK consortium) to accelerate open access research.

The Public Library of Science (PLOS) today announced that PLOS Climate published its initial cohort of papers. The journal’s mission is to disseminate rigorous science that empowers researchers, policymakers, governments, international organizations, and industry to understand dynamic, changing climates and take positive, evidence-based action in the face of climate change. The journal has so far received more than 85 submissions from researchers around the world.

The Microbiology Society and four academic consortia across Canada are pleased to announce a three-year transformative agreement starting in 2022.

Springer Nature has created a new senior role to support its development of digital solutions and innovative platformsfor the research community. Leading an expanded team, Harsh Jegadeesan will join the company from SAP on February 1st as Chief Solutions Officer, reporting into the Chief Executive.

IOP Publishing (IOPP) is moving all its open access (OA) journals to transparent peer review, making it the first physics publisher to adopt the approach portfolio-wide. 

Kudos and Impact Science have announced the launch of the COVID Knowledge Cooperative, a cross-publisher initiative to help broader audiences find, understand and act on research relating to COVID-19, coronaviruses and other infectious and respiratory diseases. Launch partners include the American Association for Cancer Research, American Chemical Society, De Gruyter, Hindawi, SAGE, University of Toronto Press and Wolters Kluwer.

As the Microbiology Society’s founding journal, Microbiology, begins its milestone 75th year, the Council of the Microbiology Society is delighted to announce that Microbiology will be the first in the Society’s journal portfolio to transition from a hybrid model to fully Open Access. The transition to Gold Open Access will happen in 2023 and follows two years of unprecedented growth in the proportion of Open Access articles published in the journal, particularly following the introduction of a new Publish and Read licence in 2020.

This year, the World Expo in Dubai has been bridging governments, companies, international organizations and citizens through the theme of "Connecting Minds, Creating the Future". The prestigious scientific publisher Frontiers will do just that by hosting a live review of a real scientific article by schoolchildren at the Swiss Pavilion.

Global research and education leader Wiley today announced a three-year open access agreement with the National Research Council of Science and Technology (NST), in the Republic of Korea.

The MIT Press Open Monograph Model: Direct to Open, a new white paper published by Chain Bridge Group and the MIT Press, describes a collective model for supporting the open dissemination of scholarly monographs. The report examines the context for designing the framework and explains the logic behind the model’s design.