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The American Physiological Society (APS) is proud to announce our new Read, Publish and Join pilot with Iowa State University Library. This innovative custom publishing model is the first of its kind—bundling reading and publishing under an annual fee along with the added bonus of membership for authors who publish with APS.

Researchers from four institutions in the Netherlands will soon benefit from unlimited open access publishing in IOP Publishing (IOPP) journals. The move is the result of a series of recently agreed ‘read and publish’ agreements.

To accelerate the implementation of research data solutions, The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has launched the ‘STM 2020 Research Data Year’ – a dedicated action plan to increase the number of journals with data policies, expand the number of journals depositing data links and grow the volume of citations to datasets.

Emerald Publishing has announced that it is to partner with Oxford Analytica, the pioneer of geopolitical risk analysis, to deliver analysis of events at the nexus of politics, economics, business and society to the academic community.

CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), the Spanish Research Council and IntechOpen are working together to encourage Open Access publishing in Spain.

Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has completed its acquisition of Innovative, a leading provider of integrated library systems for public, academic, and specialist libraries. Innovative is now a business unit within Ex Libris.

The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) announces the launch of its newest open access journal, JACS Au. The journal (pronounced “JACS Gold”) represents a bold new step toward open science for the global chemistry community.

Cambridge University Press has reached a transformative Open Access agreement with the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC). 

PLOS today announced that PLOS ONE will soon offer a new preregistration article type, Registered Reports. Registered Reports enable researchers to document and receive expert peer review feedback on their study design and proposed methods, before beginning their investigation.

Sciendo - a 2018 relaunch of De Gruyter Open – is celebrating its 600th published journal after one year of rebranding.

Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact through strategic communications management, has today announced the launch of its new Research Showcase.

Accucoms, the specialist in global sales and marketing services for academic service providers and societies, will represent Altmetric, which provides institutions with an easy way to monitor and report on the online attention and influence of their research, in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey