OpenAthens explores the revolution of user experience online at Internet Librarian 2018
OpenAthens, which provides federated identity and access management services to a global client base, will be exploring the online user journey and experience during two sessions at Internet Librarian 2018 in California, both presented by Jon Bentley, commercial director, OpenAthens.
DeGruyter, Peter Lang, Vervuert and Knowledge Unlatched cooperate
DeGruyter, Peter Lang, Vervuert and Knowledge Unlatched cooperate for Open Access in Romance Studies
ScienceOpen and Compuscript/International Science Editing partnership in China
The discovery platform ScienceOpen is partnering with Compuscript/International Science Editing in China to develop new products tailored specifically for the Chinese market.
Knowledge Unlatched and Peter Lang reach agreement on publication of IT-Law program in Gold...
The Peter Lang publishing group and the Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Open Access marketplace have reached an agreement on the promotion of Open Access publications in the field of law
IET launches three new Open Access Journals showcasing the best of engineering science
The Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) Open Programme has added three more fully Gold Open Access journals to its collection spanning the subjects of Energy, Manufacturing and Cognitive Systems.
Publons Release Inaugural Global State of Peer Review Report
Largest Ever Study of Peer Review Shines Light on Under-Representation in the Peer Review Process and the Growing Demand for Non-Western Researchers to Participate.
Springer Nature signs ASAPbio’s open letter promoting transparency in the peer review process
Springer Nature welcomes open letter on peer review reports. We are delighted to be partnering with other publishers in promoting transparency in the peer review process by signing ASAPbio’s open letter.
Knowledge Unlatched titles reach over 1 million downloads in 2018
More than 250% increase in use compared to 2017! Knowledge Unlatched (KU) announces a new record for usage of its Open Access (OA) books. Over 950 titles from the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) have been accessed more than 1 million times by users worldwide in the past 8 months of this year alone.
Switzerland takes top spot for OA publishing with 39 percent open access publications
With 39% open access publications, Switzerland occupies the top spot for OA publishing. Globally, the share of research results published 'open access' is 30%
IntechOpen Implements Altmetric Badges for Books to Highlight Online Attention for Open Research
IntechOpen has become the first fully Open Access book publisher to implement Altmetric Badges for Books, allowing authors to easily see where their work is getting attention online.
Start of the pilot project for the open access transformation of E-Books
The National Contact Point Open Access OA2020-DE, the publisher transcript, the Political Science Information Service (FID) at the Bremen State and University Library and Knowledge Unlatched are launching a project today that will enable political scientists to publish their books directly in Open Access.
PLOS and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Enter Agreement to Enable Preprint Posting on bioRxiv
The Public Library of Science (PLOS) and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) announce an agreement that enables the automatic posting of research articles submitted to PLOS journals on bioRxiv, CSHL’s preprint server for the life sciences.