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Figshare – a world leader in digital infrastructure that supports open research, and part of Digital Science – has formed a new partnership with the African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA), which is committed to open data and information sharing across Africa.

Springer Nature today announces the acquisition of innovative digital writing aid, TooWrite. This is the latest addition to the publisher's growing portfolio of digital solutions for academics designed to help improve their working lives. 

Open Pharma and Taylor & Francis are delighted to announce that Taylor & Francis has become the latest official Supporter of the Open Pharma initiative. Open Pharma aims to drive positive change in the communication of research funded by the pharmaceutical industry, with workstreams focused on improving the transparency, accountability, accessibility and discoverability of published research.

Bone & Joint have launched a new content platform that brings together all of their customer-facing products; their journals (The Bone & Joint Journal, Bone & Joint 360, Bone & Joint Open, Bone & Joint Research and Orthopaedic Proceedings) and digital services (OrthoMedia and OrthoSearch), whilst also providing the flexibility to develop new products in the future.

Technology consultancy 67 Bricks is the latest signatory to the SDG Publishers Compact, joining an impressive roster of the leading players within the publishing industry.  As a member, 67 Bricks will be committing to supporting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) both by working with clients to ensure best practices and scrutinising their own processes. 

Scholastica, a leading software provider for academic journals, has announced ROR institutional identifier support for its peer review system, production service, and open access publishing platform, becoming one of the first journal vendors to integrate with ROR.

JAMA Network Open and JAMA Health Forum datasets now available on DLAdata.com Data Licensing Alliance, Inc. (DLA), the first marketplace for licensing STEM data for...

Digital Science has completed the acquisition of metaphacts, which has become the newest member of the Digital Science family. Based in Germany, metaphacts is a knowledge graph and decision intelligence software company. Its main product metaphactory is a platform that supports customers in accelerating their adoption of knowledge graphs and driving knowledge democratization.

Today, leading healthcare knowledge provider BMJ, announces the launch of a new research impact tool, BMJ Impact Analytics, developed in collaboration with pioneering start-up Overton. BMJ Impact Analytics is the only impact tool focused on health and social care.

Digital Science is pleased to announce that Ukrainian Vsevolod Solovyov has won the inaugural APE Award for Innovation in Scholarly Communication at the 18th Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) Conference in Berlin, Germany.

Move will increase authors’ access to best-in-class research solutions. RSC comprises American Journal Experts (AJE), which provides best-in-class AI-powered and professionally delivered author solutions, and Research Square, the world’s number one multi-disciplinary preprint platform.

The distinctive Altmetric Badge is now being added to Oxford University Press (OUP) book content, updating in real-time to reflect attention given to OUP books and book chapters from sources including news media, social media, and policy documents.