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Clarivate Acquires AI Start Up to Accelerate Strategy and Business Development Success for Life Sciences & Healthcare Clients

Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT) a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, has announced an agreement to acquire the substantial majority of assets of MotionHall, a Silicon Valley technology start-up company serving the life sciences with industry vertical Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions. The asset purchase serves as a key component of the Clarivate™ Life Sciences & Healthcare strategy to deliver transformative intelligence through the application of Generative AI (GenAI) and proprietary industry vertical AI solutions. Clarivate provides people and organizations with transformative intelligence they can trust, propelling human ingenuity into our world’s greatest breakthroughs.

The acquisition of the full intellectual property, clients and team from MotionHall enables acceleration of multiple roadmaps, including targeted enhancements to Clarivate Cortellis™, market assessments, as well as a new Business Development & Licensing Enterprise Workbench.

Henry Levy, President, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Clarivate said: “As part of our strategy, Clarivate will enhance existing products and introduce novel solutions utilizing AI, to streamline clients’ workflows and accelerate speed to insight and action. Concurrent with this transaction, the team from MotionHall has joined Clarivate to progress our on-going commitment to provide exceptional value for our clients across the entire drug, device and medical technology lifecycle.” 

Rachael Craig, SVP and Managing Director, Life Sciences & Healthcare Strategy Products, Clarivate, said: “Clarivate is well positioned to become a leading industry vertical Artificial Intelligence (AI) player. Your healthier tomorrow is being built through the successful combination of deep life sciences industry expertise and mastery of frontier AI capabilities. Clients who choose Clarivate as we advance industry vertical AI together, will have access to this frontier, becoming better equipped to deliver outcomes for their company and patients that meet today’s complex challenges.”  

In the near-term, Clarivate will leverage MotionHall IP to further enhance Cortellis search, as well as scope of data quality and coverage.

To learn more about Clarivate Portfolio Strategy & Business Development Solutions, visit, https://clarivate.com/industries/life-sciences-and-healthcare/.

67 Bricks named as Finalists for Consultancy of the Year in British Data Awards

Technology consultancy and product development specialists have been named as Finalists in the 2024 British Data Awards in two categories – Consultancy of the Year and SME of the Year.

The British Data Awards is an annual quest to discover and celebrate the UK’s data success stories. Organisations taking part this year range from FTSE 100 heavyweights, public sector pioneers, technology unicorns, fast-growing scale-ups, essential Not-For-Profits, and everything in between.

A record 321 entries were received for the fourth edition of the British Data Awards which means that competition to be named a Finalist proved to be particularly tough.

Jason Johnson, Co-Founder of Predatech and British Data Awards judge said: “With so many excellent entries received this year, being named a Finalist in the British Data Awards 2024 really is a great achievement. Our Finalists also remind us of the rich vein of innovation that runs throughout the United Kingdom, and I can’t wait to celebrate all our Finalists in May.”

‘It’s always gratifying to be recognised in industry awards’, says Jennifer Schivas, CEO of 67 Bricks, ‘but I am particularly proud that we have been selected in the Consultancy of the Year category, as evidence of the fantastic work we have been doing with our clients to increase the value of their businesses and generate new ways to achieve revenue’.

The British Data Awards 2024 will announce Winners across some 24 categories and several Highly Commended awards will also be presented. This year the ‘Data Transformation of the Year’ category received the most entries.

Other categories include ‘Data Leader of the Year’ and ‘Technology Company of the Year’, while new categories including ‘Data Team of the Year’ and ‘Data Management Solution of the Year’ were introduced to help showcase and celebrate the achievements of a diverse range of organisations and people.

The British Data Awards 2024 all-star judging panel includes:

  • Neil Carden: President, EMEA at Blend
  • Dr Sophie Carr: Founder at Bays Consulting
  • Caroline Carruthers: CEO at Carruthers and Jackson
  • Dr Roxane Heaton: Chief Information Officer at Macmillan Cancer Support
  • Rob Holtom: Executive Director, Digital, Data & Tech at the Information Commissioner’s Office
  • Dr Johanna Hutchinson: Chief Data Officer at BAE Systems
  • Jason Johnson: Co-Founder at Predatech
  • Kinnari Ladha: Chief Data Officer at Merlin Entertainments
  • Sami Rahman: Director of Data at Hypebeast
  • Niresh Rajah: Group Chief Data Officer at Danske Bank
  • Adam Ryan: Chief Data Officer at Calligo
  • Romit Sen: Head of Data Science at British Airways
  • Dr Jo Watts: CEO & Founder at Effini

Finalists will be celebrated, and Winners will be announced, at an awards ceremony taking place on the 8th of May at the iconic Great Hall of the Grand Connaught Rooms in London.

SANLiC and Taylor & Francis Announce New Open Access Program for Researchers in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia

First Transformative Agreement for Taylor & Francis in Sub-Saharan Africa

Researchers in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia will be supported to publish open access (OA) articles in over 2,100 journals through a three-year agreement reached by the South African National Library and Information Consortium (SANLiC) and Taylor & Francis. Researchers will also benefit from extended journal access and a new publishing training program.

The transformative agreement, Taylor & Francis’ first in sub-Saharan Africa, enables corresponding authors at participating institutions to choose OA in all Taylor & Francis and Routledge Open Select (hybrid) journals, including UNISA Press and NISC co-published titles. In addition, researchers choosing to publish in full OA journals can do so at reduced cost, with their institution’s support.

The agreement aims to cover OA publishing charges for all eligible articles, helping every researcher to maximize the impact of their work by choosing OA. Taylor & Francis is one of the world’s leading publishers of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) journals, so the agreement is expected to be of particular help to HSS researchers, who typically have limited funding for OA publishing.

In addition, the read & publish agreement gives faculty and students at participating institutions access to read more than 1,900 journals in both HSS and Science and Technology.

The Taylor & Francis team will also deliver an editorial-led program of training and resources for researchers in the region to support better understanding of publishing and open research best practice.

Ellen Tise, Chairperson of the SANLiC Board of Directors said, “This deal has enabled South Africa to repurpose read-only subscription expenditure to finance the right for our authors from participating institutions to publish full and immediate open access in all Taylor & Francis Open Select (hybrid) journals while retaining their copyright and without paying any fee. When added to our 13 other such agreements, over 80% of South African research traditionally published behind a paywall now has the potential to be published fully open access without additional fees.”

Nitasha Devasar, Vice President & Commercial Lead India, South Asia & Africa at Taylor & Francis, added: “We are delighted to announce our first read and publish agreement in sub-Saharan Africa. At the heart of this partnership lies a commitment to championing diversity and equity in scholarly communication, particularly amplifying the voices and contributions from the Global South. The partnership enables affiliated researchers from South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia to access an extensive range of journals and empowers them to publish their work in an open-access format for global reach, visibility, and impact.”

Dr Phethiwe Matutu, CEO for Universities in South Africa (USAf), said: “It is indeed the most welcome news that SANLiC and Taylor & Francis managed to clinch this three-year agreement. USAf regards the agreement as cushioning our universities from the harsh reality of reduced state subsidies that provide a lifeblood to the daily operations of universities including library resources. USAf appreciates that the two entities prioritize the advancement of open and high-quality learning in our universities.”

Jisc and Taylor & Francis Agree New Open Research Deal for UK

Two-Year Transformative Agreement Offers More Publishing Options to Researchers at UK Universities

Jisc and leading publisher Taylor & Francis have renewed an open research (OR) agreement offering significantly more publishing options for researchers.

Building on the previous transformative agreement (TA), which supported thousands of UK researchers to publish open access (OA), the ‘Taylor & Francis Read and Publish 2024-25’ agreement aims to foster OR practices and further increase the impact of UK research, especially in the humanities and social sciences (HSS).

As one of the largest HSS publishers, the renewal with Taylor & Francis is particularly important in providing a route to OA for HSS researchers who do not typically benefit from the same levels of funding as their peers in the science, technology and medicine disciplines.

The two-year deal enables researchers at participating institutions to publish OA in more than 2,400 Taylor & Francis journals including, for the first time, 248 fully open access titles and open research publishing platforms F1000 Research and Routledge Open Research.

Caren Milloy, director of licensing at Jisc, said: “This renewed and improved agreement means that HSS UK research articles can be published immediately OA and be free to reuse. Successful TAs reduce spend and make funded research available openly at speed and scale, playing a crucial role in facilitating the transition to fully OA across all fields and subjects.”

Alex Robinson, Chief Commercial Officer at Taylor & Francis, said: “We’re very grateful for Jisc’s help in designing an exciting new partnership which extends both reading and OA publishing elements, as well as introducing joint initiatives to promote the uptake of open research.”

“Agreements like this one are key to driving the transition to an open future by supporting the use of innovative publishing options and making open an easy choice for researchers in all fields, not just those with dedicated OA funding.”

The existing agreement ended on 31st December 2023 and the renewed agreement term has been shortened to two years to allow a flexible and dynamic response to the Jisc-led review of transitional agreements in the UK and future requirements for OA agreements in the UK. All Jisc member institutions are eligible to sign up.

The State University of New York Press (SUNY) Joins the University Press Library Program at Paradigm Publishing Services

Paradigm Publishing Services, a division of De Gruyter Brill, and the State University of New York (SUNY) Press have signed a partnership agreement allowing libraries access to the complete collection of SUNY Press titles. SUNY Press publishes distinguished research and works of general interest across many disciplines but brings especially notable scholarly content to the University Press Library (UPL) in Asian and South Asian Studies, Film and Visual Culture, Jewish Studies, Literature, Gender and Sexuality, and more. The SUNY Press collections include more than 3,500 comprehensive eBook titles, which are DRM-free in the UPL on degruyter.com.

“This partnership fills the gaps in the University Press Library, greatly adding to the UPL collections from the Metro Region and the Northeast. SUNY Press publishes titles in so many areas that it’s impossible to list them all, but we must acknowledge its essential work in Asia and South Asia, Education and Psychology, and the Arts. The UPL is a mosaic and SUNY Press adds a shining tessera!” said Michael Zeoli, Director, Publisher Partner Program, Paradigm Publishing Services at De Gruyter.

“We’re excited to join other New York State and worldwide presses in De Gruyter’s University Press Library,” said Marlene McHugh Pratt, Director, SUNY Press. “Together, our works will further our collective mission of disseminating scholarly research across the globe. Our partnership with De Gruyter Brill will enable us to do this at scale.” This partnership aligns with De Gruyter Brill’s aim to make quality scholarship accessible globally and follows recent collaborations with organizations such as the Association of Canadian Publishers (ACUP) and important university presses in the UK, including Manchester University Press, Edinburgh University Press, and Bristol University Press. The inclusion of SUNY Press’s rich academic content further enhances the collections in the UPL, reinforcing its position as an essential scholarly resource.

For more information about Paradigm Publishing Services, please visit degruyter.com/paradigmdg.

New research shows UK Publishing Sector is worth £11 Billion to UK Economy

The Publishers Association has today released new research showing that the UK’s publishing sector is worth an extraordinary £11 billion overall to the economy, and is the global leader in book exports- a phenomenal cultural achievement for the UK.

The research, conducted by public policy consultancy Public First, shows that publishing has the potential to contribute even more to the UK’s future success. The report predicts that, with the right backing from government, publishing can contribute an addition £5.6 billion to the UK economy by 2033, and support a further 43,000 jobs.

International demand for UK publishing is set to grow by a further 20% in the next decade, proving its global potential.

Key stats:

  • £11 BILLION – Contribution of UK publishing sector to the UK economy overall.
  • 84,000 – Number of jobs supported by UK publishing in 2024, which is predicted to grow by 43,000 by 2033.
  • £6.5 BILLION – Gross Value Added of publishing exports.
  • 20% – Growth in international demand for UK publishing by 2033.
  • £5.6 BILLION – How much UK publishing is set to grow in the next decade.

Dan Conway, CEO of the Publishers Association said: “The publishing sector is a true success story for the UK, driving economic growth, highly skilled creative jobs, and leading in worldwide publishing exports that contribute to Britain’s cultural and academic standing abroad. Publishers act as the heartbeat of our leading creative industries, through the incredible stories they bring to screen, stage, and games such as 비트카지노, and they also underpin the UK as global base for R&D.

As a country, we should be immensely proud of what the sector has achieved- but we must not take it for granted. With an election on the horizon later this year, we ask politicians on all sides to recognise the publishing industry’s economic value to the UK, announced today on the eve of London Book Fair, but also its huge cultural and academic importance in inspiring the next generation of readers, learners and leaders. We must ensure we work together to unlock the next chapter of this success story and grow UK publishing’s economic and social contribution for the UK.“

The research is part of a wider report, titled “Vision for Publishing: The role of publishing in the UK’s success”, which lays out ten the key priorities the Publishers Association is asking the government to consider. These include commitments to;

  • Deliver AI opportunities for the whole economy, by ensuring that AI growth cannot come at the expense of IP and human creativity.
  • Vigorously uphold the UK’s globally advantageous intellectual property (IP) and copyright framework.
  • Establish a Publishing Export Accelerator.
  • Axe the final tax on reading (audio).
  • Invest in libraries and literacy.
  • Restore a diverse, open and fair market for education resources by changing the scope of Oak National Academy.

To see full report, please use this link.

Elsevier report reveals global university challenges, opportunities and strategies for success

Elsevier, a global leader in scientific information and analytics, today launches ‘View from the top: academic leaders’ and funders’ insights on the challenges ahead’, a comprehensive report that investigates the complex issues academic leaders and funders face and their preparedness to tackle them. The report also explores the strategies senior leaders are developing to leverage the opportunities that will ensure long-term success for their institutions.

The report, carried out by Ipsos, is based on in-depth interviews and quantitative research with 115 leaders of academic institutions and research funding bodies across the world. Contributors to the report included university leaders, such as Rectors, Presidents, Chancellors, Vice-Chancellors, Vice-Presidents, and Provosts, and leaders from funding organizations, including CEOs, Presidents, Directors, and Chairmen.

The report includes detailed analysis of the myriad of challenges confronting academic leaders, yet clear global priorities emerge. Research tops the list, with an overwhelming majority (89%) of academic leaders viewing it as their principal challenge, underscoring the crucial role universities play in advancing science. Maintaining research excellence (93%) is a clear focal point.

Funding, education and talent emerge as the second, third and fourth priorities. 84% of academic leaders pinpoint funding as a high priority, with two-thirds (66%) anticipating that this challenge will intensify over the next five years. This priority is echoed by funding leaders, with over two-thirds prioritizing securing finance and expecting it to become more difficult in the future due to stagnant funding growth and rising research costs. The importance of education is reaffirmed with 75% giving it the highest level of priority, leaders are most focused on offering an excellent education (82%). Talent, including the recruitment and retention of staff, is seen as a significant challenge by 75% of academic leaders. Like funding, the difficulty of managing human capital is expected to grow, with 66% predicting an escalation of this topic in the coming years.

The report includes an ‘issues matrix’, highlighting areas where there is a substantial gap between the perceived importance of specific topics and the level of preparedness necessary to tackle them:

  • ●Talent: Most academic leaders say recruiting (73%) and retaining talent (80%) is critical, yet the vast majority (93%) say they need more funding to do this. Only 11% said they felt well prepared to offer competitive renumeration and benefits to staff.
  • ●Demonstrating societal impact: There is growing pressure to demonstrate the broader societal impact of research beyond traditional metrics, with 80% of leaders stating this is a high priority. This includes showing impact on social mobility and alignment with global frameworks like the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 79% of academic leaders agree a new approach is needed for research assessment, with 55% saying their institutions should be most concerned with providing real-world benefits. Over two-thirds (67%) of leaders consider demonstrating economic impact a high priority but less than a third (30%) say they are well prepared to do this.
  • ●Research facilities: Respected research facilities enhance a university’s reputation and ability to attract financial support, international scholars and high-caliber teaching staff. Nearly four in five (78%) leaders surveyed consider providing facilities for research a high priority. There is a clear regional divide on this topic – this is a priority for leaders in EMEA (86%) and APAC (94%) and much less so in the Americas (50%).

Overall, the insights indicate a growing need to adapt to political, technological, and regulatory changes, which are expected to pose greater challenges in the coming years. As both governments and society continue to debate how AI should be handled and regulated, universities have yet to adjust to the rapid rise of this new technology. Although 64% of leaders rate AI governance as a top priority, fewer than a quarter (23%) feel their institutions are well prepared to adjust to the required changes. Leaders are also conscious that universities are not only expected to play a leading role in monitoring climate change but generating science-based solutions, developing new technologies and influencing policy.

Nick Fowler, Chief Academic Officer, Elsevier, said: “I want to thank the academic leaders and funders that contributed to the research with invaluable insights. The report highlights the gaps between the perceived importance of several challenges, such as talent recruitment and retention, demonstrating societal impact, and research facility provision, and the readiness to address them. There are many opportunities that also emerge, including the preparedness leaders feel to deliver research excellence and address governance and regulatory challenges. Elsevier is committed to learning from these insights and identifying where we can support leaders and the research community.”

The report is free to download here: https://www.elsevier.com/academic-and-government/academic-leader-challenges-report-2024

Wiley announces pilot of new AI-powered Papermill Detection service

From the London Book Fair, Wiley today unveiled plans for its new AI-powered Papermill Detection service. Following an extensive series of internal beta tests, Wiley will advance this new service into the next phase of testing in partnership with Sage and IEEE.

The Papermill Detection service is one of many ways Wiley is advancing its technology to meet the specific needs of research publishers and societies while making publishing more efficient, effective, and fit for the challenges of the future. 

“Our leadership in research publishing technology, paired with our own significant experience in combatting papermills, uniquely positions Wiley to develop this technology,” said Jay Flynn, Wiley Executive Vice President & General Manager, Research & Learning. “We’re grateful to IEEE and Sage for helping us fine tune these advanced checks that will ultimately benefit the entire scholarly publishing industry.”

Designed to safeguard research integrity, this new service incorporates six distinct tools to identify potentially compromised research content. These tools include:

  • Papermill similarity detection – checks for known papermill hallmarks and compares content against existing papermills papers, 
  • Problematic phrase recognition – flags unusual alternatives to established terms (such as tortured phrases),
  • Unusual publication behavior detection – identifies irregular publishing patterns by paper authors,
  • Researcher identity verification – helps detect potential bad actors,
  • Gen-AI generated content detection – identifies potential misuse of generative AI; and the
  • Journal scope checker – analyzes the article’s relevance to the journal.

Wiley is focused on bringing research publishing into the future and embracing the promise and potential of AI. Wiley is also committed to responsible AI and is developing products to complement, not substitute, the sophisticated and nuanced decision making of our users, including authors, reviewers, and editors.

“We at IEEE know that we cannot solve these widespread research integrity challenges alone. We need partners like Wiley who can bring both technology solutions and a deep understanding of the scholarly communications environment to address these issues,” said Steven Heffner, IEEE Managing Director, Publications.

“At Sage, we work toward ensuring that the scholarship we publish is robust, accurate, and authentically produced. To reach this goal and tackle unethical research practices, we need tools that allow reviewers and editors to focus on the content of the research instead of questioning its authenticity. We welcome opportunities to experiment and collaborate and are delighted to partner with Wiley on the Papermill Detection service,” said Bob Howard, Executive Vice President of Research at Sage.

The Papermill Detection service will be available through Research Exchange, an integrated, state-of-the-art, submission and peer review system, as soon as next year.  It builds on the significant work in progress across Wiley Partner Solutions and complements other AI tools already in use across the publishing workflow, such as Atypon’s manuscript transformation, search and discovery, and taxonomy auto-tagging features.

STM welcomes landmark EU AI Act vote | Joint statement

We represent a broad coalition of organisations in Europe’s creative and cultural sectors, including music, visual, audiovisual, and literary authors; press publishers of newspapers, magazines and specialised publications, book, music, academic publishers; recorded music, film and audiovisual producers; publishers of films and audiovisual content online and offline; distributors and photo agencies.

We welcome the approval of the EU AI Act by the European Parliament, and we thank Members of the European Parliament for the essential role they have played in supporting creators and rightsholders throughout the legislative process. The EU AI Act is world-first legislation that regulates the development and use of AI and sets an example for responsible AI governance.

It provides first tools for rightsholders to enforce their rights, including the obligations on providers of General Purpose AI (GPAI) to make available a sufficiently detailed summary of the works used for training their models, to retain detailed technical documentation and to demonstrate they have put in place policies to comply with EU copyright law, regardless of where they acquired data or trained and developed their AI models.

While these obligations provide a first step for rightsholders to enforce their rights, we call on the European Parliament to continue to support the development of responsible and sustainable AI by ensuring that these important rules are put into practice in a meaningful and effective way, aligned with the objectives of the regulation.

To achieve this, it is essential that the template for the sufficient level of information that General Purpose AI model providers must make available enables effective exercise and enforcement of copyright and other fundamental rights, and that creative sectors and rightsholders are formally and directly involved in its drafting.

IOP Publishing celebrates outstanding peer reviewers 

Recognising how important peer review is for preserving the quality and integrity of physical science research, IOP Publishing (IOPP) is proud to announce their recipients of the Outstanding Reviewer Awards. These awards are given every year to celebrate reviewers whose peer review reports stood out over the past year. 

The outstanding reviewers were selected from the more than 52,000 reviewers who submitted reports to IOPP journals in 2023. Recipients were chosen by IOPP’s journal editors based on the number, timeliness and quality of reports completed. 

Laura Feetham-Walker, reviewer engagement manager at IOP Publishing says: “We’re grateful to our outstanding peer reviewers for safeguarding the integrity of science and setting an example for others in their field. I’d like to thank all our outstanding peer reviewers for their dedication to upholding the highest standards of scholarly excellence before manuscripts are published and used to progress science.” 

IOPP launched Peer Review Excellence, the world’s first free peer review training and certification programme dedicated to the physical sciences in 2020. Since then, over 13,000 reviewers have achieved ‘IOP Trusted Reviewer’ status through the programme which offers free learning and support to those wanting to review with confidence. The online course is always on and can be completed at any time. To date more than 6000 researchers worldwide have signed up.

Peer Review Excellence has also helped to diversify IOPP’s reviewer pool significantly increasing the percentage of female Trusted Reviewers and Trusted Reviewers from Asia, China, Central and South America, The Middle East and Africa in the last year. 

“With our peer review training programme, we want to ensure equitable global access to training in peer review,” adds Feetham-Walker. “Thank you to everyone who provides this valuable service, and congratulations to the winners for this year!” 

Explore the winners of our Outstanding Reviewer Awards 2023.

21 De Gruyter journals to be published open access under Subscribe to Open (S2O) model in 2024

De Gruyter is pleased to confirm that 21 De Gruyter journals are publishing this year’s volumes in open access via Subscribe to Open.

The subscriber threshold for 16 existing Subscribe to Open journals has been reached. Five new journals are being transformed via Subscribe to Open in 2024, in line with the plan to transform about 80 per cent of De Gruyter’s journal portfolio into open access via the Subscribe to Open model by 2028.

The 5 new journals are:

  • Semiotica 
  • Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture (PDT&C)
  • Libri
  • Linguistic Typology 
  • Cognitive Linguistics

The full list of De Gruyter’s 21 Subscribe to Open journals is available here.

The model continues to receive positive feedback across communities. Data shows how journals transformed under the model are benefiting from their open access status. Article usage and submissions have both increased in number and geographic diversity, illustrating the impact and ability of the model to be a fair, inclusive and sustainable approach to transformation.

The journal Linguistics, which has been published as an S2O journal since 2022, has seen article usage increase by 16%. Articles available open access see seven times more usage than subscription articles. The readership has expanded and is now coming from over 100 countries. Citations to the journal have increased by nearly 40%.

Subscribe to Open is a model that enables the open access transformation of journals on a year-by-year basis by continuing existing subscriptions and without incurring publication fees for authors. Subscribing institutions continue to subscribe to them as usual, thereby enabling open access for all and fee-free OA publishing. S2O is thus an alternative to the APC (article processing charge) model, which charges publication fees per article, and transformation mechanisms such as Publish & Read.

De Gruyter is an active participant in the Subscribe to Open Community of Practice, which works to establish S2O as a sustainable path to open access.

Find more information on De Gruyter’s Subscribe to Open program and transformation plans here and here.

IntechOpen Signs Open Access Institutional Agreement with Iowa State University


IntechOpen signs an institutional agreement with Iowa State University of Science and Technology to support open access and cover open access publishing fees for their faculty.

Founded in 1858, Iowa State University of Science and Technology (ISU) is the first coeducational land-grant institution in the United States. ISU has seven colleges: Agriculture and Life Sciences, Business, Design, Engineering, Human Sciences, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Veterinary Medicine. 

IntechOpen is a pioneer in the open access books movement, having published over 6,900 open access books, many from leading scholars in their field.

The funding for this deal is provided by Iowa State University Library with the goals to both promote open access and openness for ISU’s research publications, and to support author choice by making open access publishing an affordable option. This multipayer cost-sharing model, and publisher discount is designed to enable Iowa State University Library to stretch its open access funds to help as many authors as possible and ensure that lack of research funds is not a barrier for authors who choose to publish in IntechOpen’s Open Access Books and Journals.

IntechOpen is proud to enter this agreement with Iowa State University to encourage open access publishing across all formats and fields of science. With a particular focus on open access books, IntechOpen and Iowa State University are also both supporting and actively involved with the OA Switchboard initiative for books and strive to provide a way for authors to access available funds for OA book initiatives and cover book and chapter publication costs.

For more information on the agreement details, visit the landing page here.

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