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American Medical Student Association and Taylor & Francis Announce new Partnership to Support AMSA’s Equitable Healthcare Vision

The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) and Taylor & Francis have announced a partnership to inform and inspire tomorrow’s physicians and support the Association’s equitable healthcare vision.

Experts at the leading research publisher will provide AMSA members with a range of training opportunities on key professional development topics, including publishing ethics and peer review. Special ‘lunch & learn’ webinar sessions offer guidance on getting published and update members on policy developments. In addition, AMSA members can now purchase Taylor & Francis, CRC Press and Routledge books at a substantial discount.

AMSA has also become the first affiliate partner of the Journal of Health Equity, a new open access journal dedicated to publishing innovative research on the complex causes of health inequity and evaluations of efforts to promote health equity. Edited by Andreas Xyrichis of King’s College London, UK, the Journal of Health Equity also aims to foster dialogue between researchers of different disciplines on how to put healthcare improvements into practice, through case studies, policy analyses, and discussion pieces.

Rohini Kousalya Siva, President of the American Medical Student Association, said: “Our partnership with Taylor & Francis and the Journal of Health Equity aligns seamlessly with our mission. This collaboration is a pivotal step in our advocacy to combat racism, prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion, and address healthcare disparities, as we work together to create a more equitable healthcare system and outcomes for all. Through this strategic alliance, we leverage the power of research and literature to actively contribute towards dismantling systemic barriers, propelling us towards a future where health equity is a reality.”

Liz Knowles, Global Portfolio Director for Medicine & Health Journals at Taylor & Francis, added: “We believe ensuring everyone can access healthcare is key to human progress, so we are delighted our partnership can support the AMSA’s vital activities in this area. We’re really looking forward to working with AMSA members, sharing the latest knowledge and equipping them with skills to publish their own work. The Journal of Health Equity provides an exciting new venue for innovative research on health equity and we are grateful to the AMSA for their support of its launch”.

Taylor & Francis has a growing portfolio of over 370 Medical journals and this week announced the addition of biomedical publisher Future Science Group.

The full aims and scope for the new Journal of Health Equity can be found on Taylor & Francis Online.

Springer Nature developing new peer review platform to better meet needs of academic community and support growth in OA publishing

Springer Nature has embarked on a bold new project to build the next generation in peer review platforms. Being designed in-house and in stages,  adapting to user feedback as part of its ongoing development, it puts editors, authors and reviewers firmly at the centre. Snapp (Springer Nature’s Article Processing Platform) aims to improve the publishing process and provide a more agile response to the growth in Open Access (OA). Its rollout marks a key investment from the company in the future of publishing.

Today marks a milestone of the platform’s rollout having now supported over 1 million submissions -75% of which were OA.  Since initial introduction in 2019, Snapp has supported over 5.6 million authors, 55,000 editors and over half a million reviewers. Over a third of Springer Nature owned journals and nearly half of its OA journals are now live on Snapp, with the rest of its portfolio to follow.

Harsh Jegadeesan, Chief Publishing Officer, Springer Nature commented:

“Innovation has always played an important role at Springer Nature and we continue to build on our experience with technology and AI tools to better support our research community. Snapp is a key demonstration of that, and reaching the milestone of 1 million submissions is a strong indicator of the experience it is providing our community. By building a platform that puts the  authors, editor and reviewer at the heart, we are not only delivering an enhanced experience suitable for the future of publishing, but we are also ensuring that we are providing the services our community needs to get high quality research published quickly and into the hands of those that can  effect change on the world’s most pressing challenges.”

Using automation, AI and machine learning (ML) technologies Snapp  frees up time in the publishing process enabling authors and editors to focus on the research. It delivers:

  • A single login point for all submissions, regardless of journal, and 1-click transfers ensuring authors find the right home for their papers; 
  • an efficient peer review process via the unique reviewer tool, enabling editors to quickly find the most suitable peer reviewers (right) for each paper, and for reviewers to only be selected for relevant content for their expertise; 
  • a transparent publishing process where the status of a submission can be tracked in real time;
  • enhanced integrity checks using AI technologies to ensure the publication of high quality research;
  • an integrated way to identify relevant OA funding, entitlements and support data sharing.

Speaking of its development Jeff Stonefield VP Digital and OA Transformation, Springer Nature, added:

“Snapp sits directly at the heart of what we do as publishers and represents the biggest technological change to our services in our 180+ year history. It has changed the way we handle articles to make submissions a more streamlined and intuitive process. It has of course  not been without its challenges, and as such we continue to introduce the system  in a tailored way, supporting and listening to our community.  A testament to its progress  has been reaching the milestone of 1 million submissions, and we are incredibly proud of the collective work that has got the platform to where  it is today.  But there is still more to do as we continue to be responsive to our authors, editors and reviewers’ needs and develop and deliver improvements and unique features over legacy platforms.”


More on Snapp and the roadmap for its continued development can be found here and a summary of key outreach to date can be found here.

Empowering Research Visibility: Editage Joins Forces with Becaris Publishing to Enhance Research Communication Services

Editage, a brand of Cactus Communications (CACTUS) – a global science communication and technology company, has joined forces with Becaris Publishing, publisher of the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research, to elevate research communication services for authors. This partnership is a significant step towards enhancing the visibility, accessibility, and impact of research work, acknowledging the critical role of effective communication in today’s scholarly landscape.

In the contemporary research environment, publishing alone does not suffice; there is an increasing need for authors to effectively communicate and disseminate their work. The collaboration between Editage and Becaris Publishing offers authors an access to research communication services, helping them to complement their article with publication extenders such as plain language summaries, video shorts, infographics and graphical abstracts. This enables authors to transform their research into engaging and accessible formats for a broader audience, providing an expanded reach, increased visibility, and amplified impact of their research.

Nikesh Gosalia, President, Global Academic and Publisher Relations at Cactus Communications, explained, “At Editage we have always been committed to empowering researchers in their publishing journey. This collaboration with Becaris Publishing allows us to extend our support to authors by enhancing the communication of their research. It aligns perfectly with our mission to bridge gaps in research dissemination and further enable researchers to make a lasting impact.”

Laura Dormer, Editorial Director at Becaris Publishing and Editor of the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research continued, “We are thrilled to collaborate with Editage in this venture. Effective research communication is paramount, and through this partnership, we aim to provide our authors with the tools and expertise to effectively communicate their work as well as help our readers digest the content in alternative ways.”

To learn more about the services, please visit the below website URL:

https://authorservices.becarispublishing.com

DEAL Consortium and Springer Nature Renew Successful Open Access Agreement for Germany

Following news last month of both parties’ intention to reach an agreement, the German DEAL Consortium and Springer Nature have announced the signing of a new Open Access (OA) agreement that will boost international reach and impact for Germany-based researchers and provide academic institutions in Germany with open access publication options and reading access to world-leading content.

Under the agreement

  • researchers from participating institutions will continue be able to publish OA in Springer Nature’s OA and hybrid Springer, Palgrave, and Adis journals as well as in its fully OA Nature titles and BioMedCentral journals,
  • participating institutions will continue to benefit from attractive terms when their researchers publish Open Access (OA),
  • researchers at participating institutions retain reading access to articles across the Springer, Palgrave and Adis portfolios.

Signed on 24 November by Springer Nature and MPDL Services gGmbH as the DEAL operating Entity, the agreement runs from 2024 through 2028. It does not include the hybrid Nature branded journals. The parties intend to continue discussion on these titles in 2024 following the end of the existing Framework Agreement with MPDL.

The preceding agreement between DEAL and Springer Nature from 2020 has played a significant role in advancing the transition to Open Access in Germany without driving up cost. Since then, the number of published OA articles in Springer Nature journals has increased to more than 50.000. It also significantly improved accessibility of Springer Nature journal content, as article usage within Germany rose by more than 50 percent across the portfolio over the contracted period.

Gerard Meijer, Director of the Max Planck Society’s Fritz Haber Institute who negotiated on behalf of DEAL, said: “This agreement is a success for science. It strengthens the shift in scientific publishing towards open access as a standard and offers a longer-term and sustainable perspective. I am particularly delighted that the agreement takes the aspect of data protection into account in line with the expectations of the scientific community.”

Dagmar Laging, VP Institutional Sales Europe for Springer Nature said: “DEAL has really boosted the visibility of German research in the world, while securing broad access to high-quality journal content. That is why we are very pleased that we have come to an agreement that will bring us even closer to open science in Germany while offering good value to participating institutions.”

Clarivate and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Release Annual Report to Identify 128 Research Fronts

Clarivate Plc (NYSE: CLVT), a global leader in connecting people and organizations to intelligence they can trust to transform their world, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) today released Research Fronts 2023, their tenth annual joint report. The report unveiled the latest progress and the evolving direction of scientific fields by identifying significant research specialties in sciences and social sciences.

A total of 128 Research Fronts were identified in this year’s report, including 110 “hot” and 18 “emerging” Fronts. A hot Research Front tracks an active area, and an emerging Research Front identifies a rapidly developing area in scientific research. The report provides a distinctive advantage for administrators, policy makers, and others who need to monitor, support, and advance the conduct of research in the face of finite resources.

Osher Gilinsky, Vice President, Academia & Government, Clarivate, said: “At Clarivate, our vision is to fuel the world’s greatest breakthroughs by harnessing the power of human ingenuity. The Research Fronts report is a perfect example of how we help advance the success of people and organizations through transformative intelligence and trusted partnership.

“Today marks the tenth anniversary of our collaboration with CAS on this meaningful project, and we are proud of its increasing influence on science policy and research funding decision making across the world.”

The 128 Research Fronts identified this year reflect a broad range of specialty areas and topics. For example, in environmental sciences, one of the Research Fronts centers on the growing problem of microplastics in the environment – specifically, in agricultural soil, due to farmers’ use of plastic mulch. More generally, artificial intelligence (AI) continues to influence many disciplines, from promoting “brain-inspired learning” in machines to affording deeper knowledge of the human proteome.

Chang Jin, Vice President of CAS said: “CAS has always regarded basic research as the foundation of our growth. We have taken every measure to enhance our basic research which includes implementing the ‘Ten Principles in Basic Research’, consolidating topics in basic research and carrying out cross field and interdisciplinary collaborative research. Releasing the Research Fronts report is key in our approach to play an increasingly important role as a national think-tank and better understand the trends in global science and technology.”

Research Fronts are defined when scientists undertake the fundamental scholarly act of citing one another’s work, reflecting a specific commonality in their research – sometimes experimental data, or a method, a concept or hypothesis. Expert analysts at Clarivate used the Essential Science Indicators (ESI)™ database which is built on the foundation of the Web of Science™ index, to conduct co-citation analysis. Research Fronts are discovered by tracking the world’s most significant scientific and scholarly literature and the patterns and groupings of how papers are cited – in particular, clusters of papers that are frequently cited together over a five-year period. A Research Front is then formed when such a group of highly cited papers attains a certain level of activity and coherence.

In conjunction with the Research Fronts 2023 report, Clarivate and CAS also published 2023 Research Fronts: Active Fields, Leading Countries/Regions to examine and compare regional performance across the 128 Research Fronts. The report revealed that the US remains the leading nation for research in 11 areas of sciences and social sciences, with China as number two.  The gap between China and the US, however, has been reduced. UK, Germany and France joined the top five countries in terms of performance in Research Fronts 2023.

Learn more about this year’s report and the highlighted Research Fronts here.

ResearchGate and Emerald partner to drive journal readership and visibility with Journal Home

ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and Emerald Publishing, one of the world’s leading digital-first publishers, today announced a new partnership to add 18 Emerald journals to ResearchGate – making these journals seamlessly discoverable and accessible by ResearchGate’s millions of members globally. 

Emerald’s publishing portfolio encompasses a broad range of applied and mission-driven research across fields including social sciences, economics, management, education, health social care, and engineering. The new partnership will see the pilot Emerald journals benefit from ResearchGate’s innovative Journal Home offering. This will provide enhanced journal visibility through dedicated journal profiles, each journal being prominently represented on all associated article pages and other relevant touch points on the platform that are accessed regularly by ResearchGate’s 25 million members, including nearly 7 million users in the Social Sciences and Humanities. 

All version-of-record articles from these titles will be available via ResearchGate on publication, as well as backfile access, giving entitled readers effortless access to subscription content and increasing the reach of open access content to all members.  

“Emerald are committed to providing a leading service for authors,” said Tony Roche, Chief Officer, Publishing & Strategic Relationships at Emerald Publishing. “We are pleased to start this partnership which offers an innovative way to extend engagement with our authors’ research, taking it to new audiences through ResearchGate, and we look forward to measuring the benefits to our communities.”

“Emerald’s commitment to a researcher-centric strategy is something we also share at ResearchGate, which is why we’re so pleased to be embarking on this partnership,” said Sören Hofmayer, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at ResearchGate. “The ResearchGate ecosystem and Journal Home service offer a unique way of increasing journal visibility with researchers where they are actively reading and connecting, enabling authors to grow engagement with their work in a trusted environment.” 

ALPSP Strengthens Scholarly Publishing Training Programme and Mentorship Scheme for 2024

International Trade Association, ALPSP, is pleased to announce the launch of the new 2024 Training Programme and Mentorship Scheme, strengthening its offering for members and the wider scholarly publishing community.

In response to a recent strategy review and member feedback, ALPSP has built on its established training schedule offering over 35 virtual courses covering a broad range of topics, as well as in-house bespoke training for member organizations. ALPSP will also be introducing new on-demand training in 2024, to appeal to an even wider international reach. 

Devised and delivered by publishers for publishers, all courses are shaped by ALPSP members and its Training Committee, incorporating delegate feedback, to help organizations develop skilled and informed employees. Groups are kept small with interactive sessions using breakouts, pre-course work, polls, with opportunities for networking and discussions.

ALPSP training courses are open for both members and non-members. Significant discounts are available for members, as well as early bird rates when booking three months in advance. In-house training is offered for member organizations who require a more personal approach with five or more delegates, while on-demand training will be launched later in 2024 and will ensure the programme is available worldwide, in several languages. If you’ve taken an interest in hypnotherapy, you can get hypnotist certification online at sites like worksmarthypnosis.com.

The ALPSP mentorship scheme, sponsored by Publishers’ Licensing Services, was first launched two years ago and now has over 200 participants. It has been extremely successful within the scholarly publishing community, achieving a sentiment score of 4.6 out of 5, which is well above average. Applications for the next phase will open in January 2024, with the programme beginning from March 2024. ALPSP will be welcoming applicants to apply online as either a mentor or mentee by 25 February 2024. Mentees must work for an organization that is a member of ALPSP, and mentor roles are open to all.

The scheme connects and supports publishing industry colleagues with a wider network of expertise and skills to help foster development and progression. By facilitating these conversations, ALPSP takes an active role to help individuals learn and share experiences with each other. The programme encourages collaborative learning between the mentor and mentee, whereby both will benefit from the dialogue, and share knowledge, insights and experiences.

ALPSP Mentee (Intellect Books) commented:

“He is really attentive, flexible and helpful with all the numerous queries I’ve thrown his way – even where something isn’t his area of expertise, he’s asked colleagues who work in those areas to pass him feedback or advice. It’s been such a pleasure meeting up and I’ve gained so much from speaking with him.”

ALPSP Mentor (Royal Society of Chemistry) added:

“She was a terrific mentee, and it was great to work with her throughout 2023 to discuss her goals and support her in any way that I could.”

For more information, please visit our website regarding the ALPSP Events and Training Programme 2024and Mentorship Scheme 2024.

The Society for Scholarly Publishing Launches Fourth Annual Professional Skills Survey

The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) invites scholarly communications professionals from across the field to share their professional skill sets with us by participating in the fourth wave of our Professional Skills Survey. 

Since its inception in 2019, the Professional Skills Survey has been the cornerstone of SSP’s Professional Skills Map, a unique interactive career development tool built from self-reported industry data. This tool serves as a compass for professionals seeking to navigate the multifaceted landscape of scholarly publishing. Sharing your expertise is pivotal in shaping this intricate map of opportunities within our field.

The SSP Professional Skills Map aims to guide scholarly publishing professionals (across industries and career levels) in recognizing their strengths and interpersonal and technical skills. Users can then map those skills onto roles across the industry, empowering them to explore potential career paths they may not have previously considered. The map presents the most frequently reported personal characteristics and interpersonal and technical skills that are thought to be (a) essential to success and (b) emerging needs for development.

This year’s survey has been updated to reflect the work done by the Career Progression Task Force, a collaboration between SSP, the Association of University Presses (AUPresses), and the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). The task force solicited position descriptions from publishing professionals across the industry and is currently analyzing the data to uncover typical themes, titles, and responsibilities and highlighting the skills employers are looking for.

“These two projects intersect in critical ways to ensure data is collected from both sides: from employees via the Skills Survey and from the employer via the Career Progression Task Force,” said Cason Lynley, Director of Marketing, Sales, and Finance for Duke University Press and Skills Map project lead. “The assessment of matches and gaps between the two data sets will eventually provide important insights into what skills and experience may be missing from industry-wide job descriptions or should be added to existing skillsets. Together, they will provide a more comprehensive view that may help people and organizations find the right match.”

Reflecting on the success of our 2021 survey with nearly 400 responses, we are eager to elevate the voices of underrepresented respondents, particularly those in entry-level positions and areas outside of editorial and marketing. Respondents can win one of four free 2024 webinar registration spots!

Tell us about the most essential and emerging skills you use in your work in less than five minutes, and add to the collective understanding of our industry’s evolving dynamics. Survey responses are due December 31, 2023.

BioOne Announces Subscribe To Open Pilot

Washington DC – BioOne, the leading nonprofit aggregator in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences, today announces a bold plan to offer up to 80 society titles as part of a Subscribe to Open (S2O) pilot beginning in January 2026.

This decision, unanimously endorsed by the BioOne Board of Directors, follows 18 months of careful feasibility analysis and extensive interviews with BioOne’s community of society and library partners in search of an equitable and sustainable path to open.

BioOne will work with its publishing community throughout 2024 to encourage participation in the pilot, enabling a rollout to the library market in 2025 for a 2026 volume year launch. The pilot offering will focus on those titles that are exclusively available to researchers via the aggregation BioOne Complete, representing societies, museums, research organizations, and independent presses across 15 countries. BioOne Complete will remain a mixed-model collection of subscribed, S2O, and gold OA titles.

“Open Access poses a unique challenge for multi-publisher aggregations, but also has the ability to deliver meaningful change at scale,” said Lauren Kane, BioOne President/CEO. “We believe that it is essential to future scholarship and discovery that small, independent societies be able to sustainably participate in the transition to open. We are proud to be agents of this shift.”

SDG Publishers Compact Fellows – Survey

Survey: publishers, please take 5 minutes to share your organization’s awareness / activities around the SDGs 

At January’s Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) conference, the SDG Publishers Compact Fellows have convened a panel to debate the role of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the scholarly publishing sector – and the sector’s role in changing the world. Ahead of the conference, the panelists are trying to gauge how well people in publishing understand the goals, how strongly they are supported, and what the opportunities and challenges are in terms of expanding SDG activities.

Scholarly publishing colleagues are invited to share your perspective on these issues by completing a quick 5 minute survey:

https://bit.ly/sdg-survey

Biomedical Publisher Future Science Group Joins Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis’ Support for Scientific and Medical Communities Expanded with Journals, Digital Hubs and Publishing Solutions

Knowledge services provider Taylor & Francis has today announced the addition of Future Science Group (FSG), publisher of medical, biotechnological and scientific research. As well as bringing a portfolio of cutting-edge journals and digital hubs, FSG’s leading publishing solutions program will enable Taylor & Francis to offer researchers and medical communication planners a host of additional services.

Taylor & Francis now becomes the fourth largest publisher of pharma-funded research, with the addition of 32 peer-reviewed FSG journals and five digital hubs. These complement the existing range of over 340 Taylor & Francis medical and healthcare journals, including the Expert Collection, which is the world’s largest series of review journals in research, development and clinical medicine.

FSG publications represent many of the most important and fast-growing fields of scientific, medical and pharmaceutical research, including oncology, medicinal chemistry, immunotherapy, microbiology, nanomedicine and biotechnology. Researchers can choose to publish open access (OA) in all FSG journals, with 15 titles fully OA.

The addition of FSG will also accelerate the growth of Taylor & Francis services for researchers and medical communication planners. FSG’s market-leading Plain Language Summary Hub supports authors to make technical content accessible for lay audiences and empowers patients in decision-making about their care.

Leon Heward-Mills, Researcher Services Managing Director at Taylor & Francis, said: “We’ve long respected the work of FSG’s creative and plain-language summary teams. Their expertise will help us scale up our existing researcher services programs, deepen our relationships with customers, and support real-world impact.”

James Drake, Founder and Chairman of Future Science Group, said: “Over the last 22 years, FSG has developed a range of unique offerings, all underpinned by a mission to convene scientific communities, and support translation, collaboration and innovation. These are priorities I know the team at Taylor & Francis value too. I’m certain that the move we’re announcing today will ensure the FSG journals, hubs and services reach their full potential and continue to meet the evolving needs of today’s researchers.”

Liz Knowles, Global Portfolio Director for Medicine at Taylor & Francis added, “The FSG journals and hubs are a perfect fit for Taylor & Francis, complementing our existing areas of strength as well as supporting growth in many of the fields we had identified for extra investment. We’re looking forward to working with our new colleagues to increase the reach and impact of FSG publications with research communities across the globe.”

Wiley launches new database – Wiley Database of Predicted IR Spectra

Wiley, one of the world’s largest publishers and a global leader in research and learning, today announced the release of the new Wiley Database of Predicted IR Spectra. The database combines over 60 years of expertise in infrared (IR) spectroscopy and spectral data curation with the most current machine-learning techniques to significantly expand the number of IR spectral data available for spectral analysis.

With over 250,000 predicted spectra, this new library was created by Wiley Science Solutions using an AI-powered spectrum prediction engine derived from its high-quality Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) empirical spectral database collection—the largest commercially available. The predicted library can be used along with Wiley’s empirical IR spectral reference databases in the spectral analysis of unknown samples and is especially useful for rarer compounds and materials, when a match cannot be found in any empirical database.

“Leveraging AI, we’re proud to have achieved such high levels of accuracy and performance levels approaching that of empirical libraries,” said Graeme Whitley, Director, New Business Development at Wiley. “We are committed to continuing our development and progress in this area to help scientists to better solve the most universal analysis problems.”

The Wiley Database of Predicted IR Spectra is a general IR library that covers a broad range of chemical compound classes, including general organics, flavors and fragrances, industrial compounds, androstanes, estrogens and steroids, metabolites, lipids, geochemicals, petrochemicals, biomarkers, drugs, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, toxicology, terpenes and other volatiles found in food, natural products, as well as monomers, PFAS, and more.

Wiley conducted both external and internal studies by subject matter experts (SMEs) to validate results from the predicted database. From these two studies, the SMEs concluded that the new database characterizes unknown spectral functional groups and performs well when searched against using sample spectra. They suggest that the optimal workflow for the predicted library is to use it when an empirical library results in either low hit quality index (HQI) scores, poor matching, or no matches to help users classify and determine the structural characteristics and possible identity of unknown compounds.

While Wiley has among the largest, most extensive commercially available library of high-quality empirical infrared data, the total coverage is significantly smaller than the overall chemical space in use by chemists, life scientists, and materials scientists – i.e., the total number of possible molecules and compounds within a set of elements and rules. Augmenting the empirical coverage within the bounds of a predictive model (the chemical space of the underlying training set) is a strategy to help improve the overall density of coverage within that space for identification of unknowns, especially for novel compounds.

The Wiley Database of Predicted IR Spectra is available for use exclusively with Wiley’s KnowItAll software, a comprehensive solution for spectral analysis and management.

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