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The first ever fully online ConTech Week 2020 conference took place last week over 4 days. The sessions were filled with inspirational and exciting speakers offering ground-breaking insights, discoveries, revelations and technological advances.

Emerald Publishing has joined the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA), a cross-publisher initiative whereby scholarly publishers open the abstracts of their publications to allow for unrestricted availability of abstracts to boost the discovery of research. I4OA is also supported by a large number of research funders, libraries and library associations, infrastructure providers, and open science organisations.

In collaboration with Maverick Publishing Specialists and GeoScienceWorld, panelists on the webinar will discuss: the benefits derived from publishing partnerships when transitioning onto an open access model, the services currently offered in the market, and different publishing partnership models currently available.

IOP Publishing (IOPP) is launching a suite of new open access (OA) environmental journals, marking the creation of the environmental Research series.

Underline Science (underline.io), the premier virtual conference venue for events in science, medicine, academia and other professional fields, will host the 44th Annual UKSG Conference and Exhibition, on Monday, April 11th and Tuesday, April 12th.

IOP Publishing (IOPP) has signed a new open access (OA) transformative agreement with the Polish Academic Consortium.

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, is pleased to announce a partnership with the global open-knowledge platform, The Lens, a robust and comprehensive resource of linked datasets of scholarly and patent works run by Cambia, a long-established global social enterprise.

Jisc is today relaunching a digital archival collection purchasing scheme that will help institutions reduce the cost of buying digital collections and archives from publishers and opens up the scheme to academic-related affiliates.

John Wiley & Sons Inc., a global leader in research and education, announces the launch of the Developmental Science Publishing Network, the result of a unique collaboration between Wiley, learned societies and journals to make the publishing process quicker and easier for authors, editors and reviewers.

Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, today announced that Oded Scharfstein will succeed Bar Veinstein as president of Ex Libris. Mr. Veinstein will continue leading Ex Libris until January 2021, and going forward, will serve on the company’s advisory board.

The Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) Inspec database has reached over 20 million indexed records throughout its 50-year history.

Oxford University Press (OUP) has released over 100 titles from the What Everyone Needs to Know® series online, giving readers access to them in one digital space for the very first time.