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A free, online collection of coronavirus research from Cambridge University Press has proved hugely popular, with around 1.7 million articles downloaded in the eight months to September.

John Wiley and Sons Inc. today announced the launch of its new premier open access journal, Natural Sciences. The journal, which fully embraces open research principles, is one of the mutual initiatives agreed to by Projekt DEAL and Wiley.

Missing Link will take over the exclusive distribution of Oable (www.oable.org) in the German-speaking region. The Oable solution, developed by Knowledge Unlatched (KU), enables publishers to keep track of all open access (OA) payments across multiple publishers and thus significantly simplify and accelerate their internal processes.

Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact through strategic communications management, has today announced that its platform now tracks and measures the effect of publication sharing via Weibo and WeChat.

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) will partner with University of Denver, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Chalmers University of Technology to develop a next-generation analytics platform. The platform will combine and streamline data sets from library and campus systems, allowing library staff to demonstrate a library’s impact while making informed decisions on collections and services.

ScienceOpen has partnered with Spotlight on Research (SOR) to bring awareness to Spotlight on Research open access health journals. The journals aim to improve the lives and health of populations by making high-quality, evidence-based health information freely available online.

IWA Publishing, the wholly owned publishing subsidiary of the International Water Association based in London, UK, has announced a pilot to transform its complete journal portfolio of 10 subscription titles including the flagship journal “Water, Science and Technology” to Open Access (OA) from 2021 onwards.

Research Square has launched a beta trial of its new automated Open Science Assessment tool, which can help authors enhance the quality of their research and the robustness of their scientific reporting.

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Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact, is pleased to announce that the Royal Society of Chemistry is the first headline sponsor to join its ‘Brave New World’ research project.

In honour of the ten-year anniversary of the publication of the Altmetrics Manifesto, Altmetric has published a landmark report, The State of Altmetrics.

Dr. Olaf Ernst joins the Knowledge Unlatched (KU) team as Chief Solutions Officer (CSO) from the start of October. Alongside supporting and developing customer solutions within the current KU product portfolio, he will also be focusing on Oable, KU’s new solution which was recently launched in order to provide institutions with a new and unique workflow tool to manage their Open Access activities.