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ALPSP Annual Conference & Awards Returns to Manchester this September

  • ALPSP Annual Conference & Awards 2024
  • Hilton Manchester Deansgate (UK) & Virtual
  • 11-13 September 2024

International trade association, ALPSP reveals that its Annual Conference and Awards will be held at the Hilton Manchester Deansgate, UK and streamed online from 11-13 September 2024. This will be the second hybrid ALPSP Conference and will bring together the scholarly community both in-person and virtually.

ALPSP is delighted to confirm that the 2024 keynote speaker will be Jake Okechukwu Effoduh, Assistant Professor at Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University. Jake’s talk will explore ‘Scholarly Publishing in the Era of Open Access and Generative AI’ and will take place at the start of this year’s conference on Wednesday 11 September.

Key programme sessions presented by industry experts will include:

  • How smaller publishers remain relevant: Lessons learned and best practices shared
  • Three months to go. Are we ready for OA in 2025?
  • Demonstrating the value of OA books
  • India rising: How society publishers can prepare for the coming surge in quality submissions
  • Deconstructing journals: Reinventing research communication
  • Make better decisions. Uncover insights from your marketing data
  • Industry updates from across the research ecosystem
  • Taking action on sustainability
  • The role of human editors in an AI world
  • What does AI mean for talent management?
  • Understanding research impact across the world
  • What do industry leaders really think?

In addition to the fantastic lineup of speakers and sessions, there will be a busy social calendar of events for delegates to join, with opportunities to network, relax and enjoy themselves. 

New to this year’s conference, is ‘Scholarly Communication – The Eras Tour: A Time Travel Musical’ which takes place on Wednesday 11 September after the Award Finalists’ Lightning Presentations. This fun event (which may or may not consist entirely of Taylor Swift parody songs…) follows a college student who travels back to 2024 to meet her publisher ancestor. With the assistance of the local librarian, they set out to understand events from the perspective of those in the maelstrom.

On the evening of Thursday 12 September, ALPSP welcomes all delegates to a drinks reception, conference dinner, awards presentation, and the infamous quiz.

The ALPSP Annual Conference provides a friendly forum in which to share information and knowledge, learn about new initiatives and engage in open discussion on the challenges and opportunities facing the scholarly publishing industry. 

Delegates from previous conferences commented:

“It was my first time attending this conference. I found the atmosphere relaxed and friendly. Everyone was very collegial and supportive. Would definitely attend again!”

“Keynote was brilliant, so thought provoking. Some really important issues raised in the sessions on inclusivity I attended too, glad to see this being given the prominence it needs.”

ALPSP would like to thank its conference sponsors: Publishers’ Licensing Services and Karger for their generous support. Learn more about sponsorship opportunities.

To secure your place, visit the ALPSP conference website, or watch our highlights video for a brief insight into the event.

ENDS

42 institutions in Greece now covered by ACS read and publish agreement

Authors at 42 members of the HEAL-Link (Hellenic Academic Libraries Link) consortia can now publish their research open access at no cost to them in any of ACS’ premier chemistry journals.

The agreement between ACS and HEAL-Link, which runs through the end of December 2027, also includes full reading access to ACS’ hybrid journals (publications which include a mixture of open access and subscription access content).

Authors can check their eligibility and find instructions for publishing under the agreement on the HEAL-Link information page.

OUP – How are researchers responding to AI? 

Most academic researchers and research authors say they are using artificial intelligence (AI) tools in their research practice, despite concerns over the loss of critical thinking skills, respect for intellectual property (IP) rights, and mistrust in AI providers.

We recently conducted a survey of over 2,000 researchers across geographies, subject disciplines—including Humanities, STM, and Social Sciences—and different career stages to hear directly from the research community about how they are reacting to and using AI in their work.

The results reveal the key considerations in researchers’ decisions to engage with AI, including what excites and concerns them, and how they already use—or plan to use—tools already available to them.

At OUP, we are committed to supporting academic researchers in harnessing AI to improve research outcomes and help to protect their role by working closely with technology providers to define clear principles for future collaboration.

Speaking about the research, David Clark, Managing Director of our Academic division, said:

“Throughout OUP’s history we have embraced new opportunities offered by technological advancement—in line with our mission to publish rigorous, high quality academic resources—responding to the needs of the academic community, while ensuring that the scholarship we publish remains valued and protected.

“This research will help us to understand how researchers are thinking about AI and its use in their work. As these technologies continue to rapidly develop, our priority is in working with research authors and the broader research community to set clear standards for how that evolution should take place.”

Speaking on OUP’s commitment to supporting the research community, David Clark added:

“This is a fast-moving, complex area—but we strongly believe that publishers like OUP are well positioned to act as a bridge between research authors and tech providers, making a real difference as these tools continue to evolve.

“We are actively working with companies developing LLMs, exploring options for both the responsible development and usage, to not only improve research outcomes, but also recognize the vital role that researchers have—and must continue to have—in an AI-enabled world.”

From June 2024, we will be hosting a series of webinars to delve deeper into the topics covered in our research, bringing together academic research authors from across the world to discuss how those in the research community can work together to build a sustainable, AI-enabled future.

You can read more on this topic from David Clark in his article for Times Higher Education on how academic publishers and AI companies do not need to be enemies, and his blog on how publishers are uniquely positioned to advocate for the protection of researchers and their research within LLMs.

Full report – https://corp.oup.com/news/how-are-researchers-responding-to-ai/

Opaque AI research tools could undermine trust and accuracy of scientific findings

Overdependence on ‘opaque’ artificial intelligence (AI) systems in research could make scientific findings less reliable and limit their usefulness to solving real world challenges, a report by the Royal Society has found.

The Science in the Age of AI report from the UK’s national academy of sciences explores the opportunities and challenges of machine learning and large-language models as transformative tools for 21st century research.

From coding and statistical analysis, to generating novel insights from vast datasets, AI tools are already transforming fields, from drug discovery to climate modelling.

However, the report warns, the complexity and ‘black box’ nature of sophisticated machine-learning models means their outputs cannot always be explained by the researchers using them.

This does not stop AI generating useful insights. However, a growing body of irreproducible AI and machine learning-based studies raises questions about the soundness of their conclusions. 

Ultimately, the report warns that unreliable or untrustworthy AI technologies pose risks to science and to society’s trust in its findings. 

To mitigate these challenges and maximise the benefits AI can bring, the report recommends: 

  • Establishing ‘open science’, environmental, and ethical frameworks for AI-based research to help assure findings are accurate, reproducible and support the public good. This could include agreements to make the data AI models are trained on available to researchers or ‘red teaming’ exercises to test the guardrails of what they can be used for.
  • Investing in ‘CERN-style’ regional and cross-sector AI infrastructure, to ensure all scientific disciplines can access the computing power and data resources to conduct rigorous research and maintain the competitiveness of non-industry researchers.
  • Promoting AI literacy among researchers and collaboration with developers to assure its accessibility and usability.

The peer-reviewed report was led by an expert working group of academics and industry figures and involved evidence reviews, interviews and workshops on emerging applications and trends in AI-supported, safety risks and the patent landscape.

Professor Alison Noble CBE FREng FRS, Vice President of the Royal Society and Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford and Chair of the report’s working group, said:

“This report captures how the rapid adoption of AI across scientific disciplines is transforming research and enabling leaps in understanding that would not have been thinkable a decade ago.

“While AI systems are useful, they are not perfect. We should think of them almost like a scientific peer, they can offer valuable insights, but you would expect to be able to verify them yourself – and that isn’t always the case with current AI studies.”

“In my field, healthcare research, researchers have always struck a balance between confidentiality and transparency. Ensuring AI systems are as open as possible is a vital step to assuring its development benefits science and society.”

Dr Peter Dayan FRS, Director, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and a member of the working group, said: 

“Science is constantly enjoying the introduction of disruptive new methodologies, from the microscope to computers, but adoption can be limited by things like cost, availability of the technology, and skills.

“Now machine learning is set to transform vast swathes of research, we need to ask what that requires in terms of access.

“The report’s recommendations look at how we can achieve that confluence of high-quality data, processing power and researcher skills in a suitably equitable manner.

“The UK has always been good at generating large volumes of high-quality data in everything from large cohort studies, like UK Biobank, to areas like neuroscience; for these machine learning will be a particularly critical tool.”

The pace of change in the AI-landscape is showcased in a review of the international patent filings up to 2021, undertaken by IP Pragmatics Limited on behalf of the report working group, which found that approximately 74% of all AI patent filings occurred in the previous five years.

It suggests that China and the US lead on, respectively, the number and value of patents filed, but the UK is well positioned for growth in this area. While it ranks 10th globally on patents, it is second in Europe behind Germany and has a 14.7% share of the AI life sciences market. 

Wiley and OA Switchboard partner to make open access data sharing easier

Wiley, one of the world’s largest publishers and a global leader in research and learning, today announced a new partnership with OA Switchboard, a community-driven initiative that facilitates information sharing about open access publications between funders, institutions and publishers. 

OA Switchboard enables funders, institutions, and publishers to send, receive and respond to a pre-defined set of standardized messages between them, or via their dedicated partner’s system. Wiley will support OA Switchboard’s “reporting made easy” offering by supplying publicly-available metadata for open access articles published in Wiley’s journals.

By providing the underlying shared open infrastructure for institutions and funders, OA Switchboard will help simplify registering and reporting on research output, as well as trend analysis about where and how affiliated authors publish their work openly. As an intermediary, OA Switchboard is publisher- and funder-agnostic.  

“I am delighted to have Wiley come on board and it’s been great to have their engagement in this collaborative process,” said Yvonne Campfens, OA Switchboard Executive Director. “This agreement will really benefit research funders and institutions/consortia that are Wiley customers and participants in the OA Switchboard initiative.” 

“Wiley is committed to supporting institutions and funders in their transition to an open future, and we’re proud to be the first large mixed-model publisher to engage with OA Switchboard,” said Kathryn Sharples, Group Vice President, Publishing Strategy & Policy, Wiley. “This new partnership will help increase visibility of OA articles published in all of our journals while supporting our customers by making reporting easier.”   

Wolters Kluwer announces institutional availability of NEJM AI on Ovid

New England Journal of Medicine publisher’s newest title is dedicated to responsible AI in healthcare, available to institutions globally via Wolters Kluwer’s Ovid research platform

Wolters Kluwer Health and NEJM Group, publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), announced today that the new NEJM AI journal is now available on Wolters Kluwer’s Ovid® medical research platform.

NEJM AI is a peer-reviewed monthly journal dedicated to exploring and integrating artificial intelligence (AI) in clinical medicine. Hospitals, government agencies, corporations, health systems and research institutions are able to access the journal organization wide through Ovid’s exclusive digital distribution of NEJM Group titles. Institutional access to NEJM AI builds upon a collaboration that enables online subscriptions to NEJM Group journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, NEJM Evidence, NEJM Catalyst and NEJM Journal Watch, where users can access subscriber content both on NEJM Group sites and on Ovid.

Bridging trusted research with the future of health

“With the proliferation of generative AI (GenAI) applications across industries, it’s clear that AI will have a profound impact on healthcare. Wolters Kluwer is at the forefront of bringing together expert solutions with trusted and authoritative research information,” said Rafael Sidi, Senior Vice President & General Manager of Health Research, Wolters Kluwer Health. “The medical field is at a pivotal juncture, with technology rapidly revolutionizing patient care to improve outcomes significantly. NEJM AI serves as a critical resource for clinicians, researchers, healthcare leaders, and policymakers globally, focusing on the transformative role of AI and machine learning.”

NEJM Group launched NEJM AI as a groundbreaking journal to advance the understanding and practical application of AI in medicine. The journal aims to link cutting-edge AI technology and practical medical applications that can one day transform patient care and healthcare outcomes. Led by renowned experts in medical AI, the global editorial leadership of NEJM AI brings together the best minds in medical AI research from various disciplines.

“NEJM AI will apply the same rigorous standards as our flagship journal to determine which AI tools are ready for use in medical settings,” said Isaac Kohane, M.D., Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief of NEJM AI. “We are not only publishing high-quality original research but aim to build a community of engagement that fosters open conversation among AI developers, clinicians, researchers, healthcare leaders and government officials.”

In addition to the new journal, NEJM Group offers “NEJM AI Grand Rounds,” a podcast that explores the deep issues at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and medicine. The podcast will be complemented by community-building activities such as events and exclusive subscriber content looking at the forefront of marrying technological innovation with clinical expertise.

The Ovid research platform provides a vast library of thousands of full-text journal articles, eBooks, database resources, and workflow tools in a single, integrated solution. Wolters Kluwer products, services, and expert solutions are based on a foundation of trust, transparency, and responsibility – in line with the company’s values. Wolters Kluwer’s AI Principles, which guide the design, development and deployment of advanced technologies in helping customers solve their most complex problems.

Charlesworth Partners with APS to Offer WeChat Marketing Services in China

Charlesworth, a leading provider of publishing solutions in China, has announced a strategic partnership with the American Physical Society (APS), a renowned publisher of peer-reviewed physics research journals. Through this collaboration, Charlesworth will provide comprehensive WeChat marketing services to APS to support its engagement with the Chinese physics community.

The American Physical Society (APS) is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics through its outstanding research journals, scientific meetings, education, outreach, advocacy, and international activities. By partnering with Charlesworth, APS seeks to leverage the power of WeChat, a popular social media platform in China, to connect with the Chinese physics community and expand its reach in the region.

“We are thrilled to be working with Charlesworth, a leader in providing innovative marketing solutions in China,” said Larry Grodsky, Head of Integrated Marketing Communications, Research & Journals at APS. “By harnessing Charlesworth’s expertise in WeChat marketing, we aim to significantly enhance our engagement with the Chinese physics community.”

“We are excited to partner with APS, a cornerstone of physics publishing,” said Andrew Smith, Product and Marketing Director at Charlesworth. “Our data-driven WeChat marketing strategies will support APS journals in engaging with the Chinese physics research community, through a fully localised solution.”

Clarivate Launches Research Horizon Navigator to Pinpoint Future Breakthrough Areas 

Insights from the new InCites Benchmarking & Analytics module support strategic investment and demonstrate impact  

Clarivate Plc, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today launched Research Horizon Navigator™, a powerful new AI-native module within InCites Benchmarking & Analytics™ that highlights emerging research topics where future breakthroughs are likely to occur. Academics, funding agencies, government research organizations and research strategists will be able to identify new research trends and determine the most impactful areas for future investments and strategies. 

Research Horizon Navigator draws on trusted data from the Web of Science Core Collection™ and uses a novel methodology developed by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)™ to identify new topics emerging in articles, reviews and conference proceedings published in the past five years, as well as a new indicator which measures the interdisciplinarity of each emerging topic. Within Research Horizon Navigator, each topic is labeled with a research theme assigned by generative AI. Each topic also offers an interactive visualization showing how papers are connected and includes an overview where users can explore which authors and institutions have contributed.   

Emmanuel Thiveaud, Senior Vice President, Research and Analytics, Academia & Government at Clarivate said: “By empowering institutions to understand where research is heading and who is leading the way, we hope to accelerate breakthroughs across disciplines and countries. With Research Horizon Navigator we continue to provide intelligence you can trust to transform the world for the better.” 

Research Horizon Navigator is available now to all InCites Benchmarking & Analytics subscribers, providing an invaluable resource to inform horizon-scanning projects and strategic planning initiatives. Key applications for the tool include: 

  • Technology watch: Easily monitor the research landscape in targeted areas of interest. 
  • Collaboration: Quickly discover which researchers and institutions are participating in the leading edge of research. 
  • Funding program management: Identify topics that are shaping the future of science and innovation to inform future investments. 
  • Research assessment: Understand where institutions contribute to novel advances in research. 

Feedback from the research community will inform further enhancements to Research Horizon Navigator within InCites. Emerging topics will also be incorporated into Web of Science Research Intelligence, so institutions can identify relevant funding opportunities within emerging research areas and gain insight into where they are strategically positioned to succeed. 

Bloomsbury acquires Rowman & Littlefield Academic

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (LSE: BMY), the leading independent publisher, today announces that it has completed the asset purchase of the academic imprints and associated titles of Rowman & Littlefield, one of the most respected independent publishers in the US Academic market.  It is the biggest acquisition by Bloomsbury to date, and significantly accelerates and strengthens Bloomsbury’s academic and digital presence in North America.

The deal will double the size of Bloomsbury’s Academic & Professional business in the US, considerably strengthening the company’s arts, humanities and social sciences and digital resource publishing. The acquisition reflects Bloomsbury’s growth strategy of focusing on deeper global market presence, subject area expansion and continued innovation in digital scholarship and learning. 

Nigel Newton, Chief Executive of Bloomsbury, commented: “This acquisition is a game-changer for Bloomsbury. Rowman & Littlefield is one of the few independent US academic publishers of such scale and it is great that our discussions with Jed Lyons have led to this acquisition. Their 40,000 academic titles added to ours will make us a significant US academic publisher, growing Bloomsbury’s academic and digital publishing presence in North America, opening new markets and publishing areas to Bloomsbury, and is a key milestone in our long-term growth strategy.”

Rowman & Littlefield is a privately-owned independent publisher, founded in 1949 and based in Lanham, Maryland. It is a greatly respected list with leading authors in the arts, humanities and social sciences and important publishing partnerships with world-renowned academic and professional institutions. The long-awaited work of the Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, for example is due to be published next month. Commissioned by the British Psychoanalytical Society and co-published by Rowman & Littlefield, it supplements Freud’s writing with substantial editorial commentaries through the lens of modern scholarship. Rowman & Littlefield is an excellent strategic fit for Bloomsbury’s Academic & Professional division.

The asset sale does not include the Rowman & Littlefield other businesses, including Globe Pequot (with the exception of the Applause and Backbeat imprints), its trade publishing arm, Sundance-Newbridge, its K-8 education business and National Book Network (NBN), or its trade distribution business. 

Jed Lyons, President and CEO of Rowman & Littlefield said, “2024 marks the 75th anniversary of Rowman & Littlefield. When Nigel Newton approached me and described his vision for how our academic businesses would complement Bloomsbury’s academic business, it soon became clear that there is a compelling fit. The superb publishing team that runs the Rowman & Littlefield’s academic business will find a welcoming home at Bloomsbury and our authors will benefit from the global reach of Bloomsbury’s sales and marketing efforts.”

Sabrina McCarthy, President of Bloomsbury US, commented, “The acquisition of the academic imprints of Rowman & Littlefield solidifies Bloomsbury Academic’s position in the US and globally as an important publisher.  We are thrilled to welcome over 115 new colleagues to the team.  Their academic expertise, impressive list of authors and strong backlist will help to grow the Bloomsbury Digital Resources portfolio and title offering in any format to academic readers across the globe.

“Our academic division stands for excellence and originality in scholarship, learning and professional practice. Rowman & Littlefield, along with our most recent acquisition of ABC-Clio, ensures we are an ambitious force to address the changing market opportunity from K-12 schools to higher education and beyond. It cements Bloomsbury’s overall presence in the US as a major independent publisher”.

BioOne Announces Early Publisher Commitments to Subscribe to Open Pilot

BioOne, the leading nonprofit aggregator in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences, is proud to announce the first wave of publishing partners to commit to its 2026 Subscribe to Open (S2O) pilot. To date, 20 titles from 13 societies, museums, and independent presses have confirmed their participation, with up to 50 more eligible to join throughout the 2024 signup year. The effort represents a significant opportunity for BioOne to more broadly and equitably provide access to critical content while ensuring a sustainable source of revenue for its independent journal publishers.

To date, confirmed participating publishers include:

    ● American Malacological Society
    ● The Brazilian Society of Herpetology
    ● British Arachnological Society
    ● British Cactus and Succulent Society
    ● Finnish Zoological and Botanical Publishing Board
    ● The Helminthological Society of Washington
    ● International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
    ● Kentucky Academy of Science
    ● Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris
    ● National Shellfisheries Association
    ● Nature Kenya/East African Natural History Society
    ● Netherlands Ornithologists’ Union
    ● The Raptor Research Foundation

A current list of S2O pilot publishers and associated titles is available on the BioOne website, and will be continuously updated with new additions throughout 2024. The final participant list will be shared with our library community in early 2025 for a 2026 pilot term start. BioOne Complete will remain a single, mixed-model collection of subscribed, S2O, and gold OA titles.

“We are thrilled to participate in BioOne’s S2O pilot, which achieves our Open Access aims while protecting the crucial royalties on which our society relies,” said Taran Grant, Editor in Chief of the South American Journal of Herpetology. “We are thankful for BioOne’s foresight and the backing of the library community in helping us to increase access to this important research without compromising our financial sustainability.”

“BioOne is gratified by the early support for our Subscribe to Open pilot, from our valued publishing partners, library supporters, and the community at large,” said Lauren Kane, BioOne President/CEO. “Their engagement is a powerful reminder of how much more can be achieved in collaboration than in siloes.”

Peer Review Week 2024 Explores the Intersection of Innovation and Technology

Over 35 organizations around the world are involved in this year’s Peer Review Week, and there is still time to participate.

This year’s Peer Review Week (PRW), an annual event to celebrate the value of peer review that brings together scholarly communication stakeholders, including academic publishers, associations, institutions, and researchers, will be dedicated to the theme “Innovation and Technology in Peer Review.” During the week of September 23-27, 2024, participating organizations will host events and activities to highlight the changing publishing landscape and the ongoing vital role of peer review in shaping scholarly communication. The theme was chosen via an open global poll of the scholarly community, in which 494 people voted.

The academic landscape is evolving, becoming increasingly author-centric, with significant emphasis on research integrity and the integration of AI. Today, the demand for greater transparency and efficiency in the peer review process is rising, even as the number of publications surges and the pool of reviewers fails to keep pace. This has spurred innovations designed to streamline the process and better align it with the needs of the authors. AI tools are slowly being employed to automate administrative tasks so that peer reviewers can focus on the more important aspects of the peer review process.

Can AI be used in a way that it complements the value that the reviewer brings in?

How can it be used to broaden the pool of reviewers providing equal opportunities to scholars from under-represented countries?

Can the industry’s research integrity crisis be tackled with the help of new approaches and technology?

Looking ahead, can we expect a more collaborative approach where technology complements human expertise in peer review? 
“This theme is incredibly timely. Many of the world’s most pressing problems require interdisciplinary solutions, and achieving our UN SDG goals necessitates global collaboration among scientists. How can this cross-pollination of ideas impact peer review? How can we ensure peer review remains effective in this context? Moreover, how does technology facilitate this exchange of ideas? We believe this dialogue has the potential to drive significant global change.” say the Peer Review Week committee co-chairs. 

We invite all members of the scholarly community and anyone interested in the advancement of quality research to join us during Peer Review Week for this celebration and learning experience.

Activities may include blog posts, videos, podcasts, infographics, and more. Submit items for promotion through this online form.

You can follow the latest announcements for Peer Review Week 2024 and share what your organization has planned on social media using the hashtags: #PeerReviewWeek and #AIinPeerReview

Last year we had over 6,000 sign ups and nearly 100 events and activities going on throughout the week, and we hope this year will be as busy. Be sure to check out our Events/Activities page and our Resources page from last year as there is still lots to be gained through videos, blogs, checklists and more.

Continue the conversation!

Tweet us @PeerRevWeek 
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NISO’s Draft Revision of the Journal Article Version (JAV) Recommended Practice Now Open for Public Comment

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced today that its draft revision of the Journal Article Version (JAV) Recommended Practice is open for public comment through July 7, 2024, at the project web page. 

First published in 2008, the JAV Recommended Practice was developed to describe different versions of online scholarly content. Since then, publishing practices have continued to evolve, and with changes such as the rapid growth in preprint publications, the concept of a single version of record has become less relevant. Questions about citations for different versions and version labeling, for example, have highlighted the need for standardization of terms as well as recommendations for how to manage, track, and index multiple versions. The NISO working group was formed to address these challenges and develop a revised JAV Recommended Practice including an appendix with multiple examples illustrating a variety of use cases for those looking for guidance.

“We are pleased to present the revised Recommended Practice for public comment,” said Working Group Co-chair Clay Burgett (Assistant Director of Application Technology, ACS Publications). “We hope it will prove useful to a variety of stakeholders in scholarly communications and look forward to incorporating feedback from the wider community.” Working group Co-chairs Patrick Hargitt (Senior Director of Product Management, Atypon) and Michael Nason (Open Scholarship & Publishing Librarian, University of New Brunswick) noted the determined efforts of the working group members to collaboratively address the problems and questions of a constantly evolving publishing landscape and the group’s eagerness to put its work product to a public review.

“NISO appreciates the service of the JAV Revision Working Group,” said Nettie Lagace, NISO Assistant Executive Director. “A lot has changed since 2008, and these essential revisions will help to ensure that the JAV Recommended Practice remains current and meets the needs of creators and consumers of scholarly articles. We look forward to further input and opinions from the community, which will strengthen the final Recommended Practice.” 

The draft Recommended Practice is available for comment through July 7, 2024.

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