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IET joins forces with Redactive for new-look E&T magazine

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has outsourced production of its award-winning global media brand E&T to content and publishing agency Redactive.

From Monday 17 July 2023, Redactive will be responsible for delivering E&T magazine, its magazine website (eandt.theiet.org), e-newsletters, social channels and its thriving E&T Jobs board. 

Under the multichannel creative and editorial direction of Redactive, E&T magazine will remain a sector-leading voice providing news, features and opinions on topics that matter to today’s engineers with an increased focus on delivering greater thought leadership and intelligence.

IET and Redactive are embarking upon a strategic review of E&T’s multimedia magazine portfolio that will see a new content strategy and brand identity launched in the fourth quarter of this year complete with redesigned magazine, website and digital channels.

At the new E&T website, users can look forward to an enhanced experience from a more immersive platform that will be designed to serve content more relevant to each and every IET member. Customised by career stage, topics, sectors and international geography. Enriched with video, webinars and podcasts. And giving members the opportunity to boost their professional development with CPD modules to improve their technical and business skills.

IET Director of Knowledge Services and Solutions, Giles Grant, stated: “The IET’s focus throughout our solutions and services is providing our 154,000 global members, as well as the wider engineering and technology community, with an independent, credible and informative voice that helps drive important change and challenges thinking within the sector.

“Our award-winning E&T portfolio is central to this and our commitment, as always, is to ensure we are continually evolving our solutions for our customers and to remain digitally innovative, relevant, and of course, competitive within the market.

“With Redactive’s long track record of publishing and developing leading multimedia business magazines for membership organisations, we’re confident this new approach will reach even broader audiences across the globe, whilst ensuring we continue to deliver to, and represent, our global membership body in the most impactful way.”

Redactive Director Aaron Nicholls adds: “The new-look E&T magazine, its website and associated digital channels will support IET members and inspire the wider engineering profession. In doing so, we want to help existing members to develop their careers and attract a new generation of engineers into the IET community.

“This is an exciting collaboration that aligns with the IET’s 2030 strategy, and we look forward to helping the Institution to fulfil its ambitions and meet its targets over the coming years.”

Clarivate Enriches Web of Science Platform with Integration of ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global

Clarivate Plc a global leader in connecting people and organizations to intelligence they can trust to transform their world, today announced the integration of ProQuest™ Dissertations & Theses Global with its renowned Web of Science™ platform. This integration enables researchers to gain quick and easy access to a vast multidisciplinary collection of early career scholarship of more than 5.5 million global dissertations and theses.  

The new solution, ProQuest™ Dissertations & Theses Citation Index, offers a comprehensive research experience with access to discover early career research alongside journals, preprints and other scholarly sources within a single platform. By eliminating the need to search multiple databases, it will provide a streamlined workflow for students and researchers, facilitating their academic success and driving further research advancements. 

Clarivate is committed to meeting user feedback and requests. In a recent survey of Web of Science users, researchers expressed their interest in dissertations and theses as the most desired source of secondary, supplementary content. In response, Clarivate has integrated ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global with the Web of Science to offer a multidisciplinary collection of early career scholarship from more than 4,100 institutions across 60+ countries. In addition, mutual customers of both will enjoy seamless access to more than three million full text documents on the ProQuest platform. 

With this integration, Web of Science is enriched to enable the discovery of millions of dissertations and theses alongside journal articles, research data, patents and preprints. This integration empowers researchers and students to conduct more expansive literature reviews by incorporating unpublished scholarship and diverse perspectives. The research process is rarely straightforward and it is important for the advancement of knowledge to embrace both positive and negative scientific findings, which ensures researchers access a comprehensive view of available scientific evidence and can avoid duplication of effort in later research.

Furthermore, researchers can showcase their early career achievements to peers and evaluators by claiming their dissertation or thesis in their Web of Science Researcher Profile. Clarivate is actively working to add Linked Cited References and Related Records – scheduled for release by Q4 2023 – to further enhance the connections between dissertations and the Web of Science platform.

Emmanuel Thiveaud, Senior Vice President, Research and Analytics, Academia & Government at Clarivate said, “At Clarivate, we are dedicated to supporting academic institutions in advancing knowledge through research and education by providing trusted content and tools. We continuously gather customer insights and respond quickly to deliver best-in-class solutions that drive research excellence. The addition of our expansive collection of early-career scholarly content from ProQuest to the Web of Science platform opens new possibilities. With this blend of comprehensive content, researchers and students alike can discover emerging trends, identify new areas of research and find post-graduate programs engaged in cutting-edge research, all through a singular search, thus streamlining their research workflow.”

Taylor & Francis Reduces Plastic by Introducing Paperwrap for UK Mailed Journals

Taylor & Francis has taken a significant step in reducing unnecessary plastic use with the introduction of paperwrap for journal print copies mailed in the UK.

Paperwrap, a relatively new packaging technology, has become more common in recent years, but is typically most suited to publications with very high print runs. Taylor & Francis’ Global Supplier Team spent several months investigating how it might be applied to academic journal print runs, which included rolling out live trial mailings to colleagues around the world to test how the journals could be packaged, and whether there was any impact on the speed of mailing or damage to the journal in transit.

Unlike paper envelopes, which can often be torn in transit, paperwrapped journals consistently reached their intended recipient with little or no damage. It also enabled the insertion of additional materials, such as flyers, whilst complying with global shipping standards.

To further minimize environmental impact, the paperwrap used is either FSC® (Forest Stewardship Council) or PEFC™ certified (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification), meaning that the paper either comes from responsibly managed FSC-certified forests or is made from at least 70% wood that meets or exceeds the PEFC Sustainability Benchmark Requirements.

Paperwrap will now replace all other packaging for almost all UK journal mailings, eradicating plastic use, with other global regions soon to follow.

Rebecca Yorke, Director of The Brontë Society and Brontë Parsonage Museum, whose journal Brontë Studies was involved in the test mailings, commented: “We are committed to reducing our environmental impact at The Brontë Society, so we were thrilled that Brontë Studies was chosen for the paperwrap trial. Posting journals using responsibly-sourced paper packaging is the perfect replacement for plastic. I’m very excited that paperwrap mailings are going to be continued and expanded.”

Stewart Gardiner, Global Production Director at Taylor & Francis, added: “According to the UN Environment Programme, it is estimated that 75 to 199 million tons of plastic is currently found in our oceans. Shrink wrap, the type of plastic used in mailings, is one of the single-use plastics which contribute to this waste entering our ecosystems. Taylor & Francis is delighted to have reached the milestone of eliminating plastic from journal mailings, making a significant reduction to our environmental impact.”

Aries Systems and Scopus Partner to Enhance Peer Review through Advanced Reviewer Matching

Aries Systems Corporation, a leading technology workflow solutions provider for the scholarly publishing community, and Scopus, an expertly curated abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings, are pleased to announce their partnership to offer an extensive, dynamic approach to Reviewer search and matching for scholarly publishers.

Locating and securing Reviewers with diverse expertise and no conflicting interests is a formidable challenge and expensive bottleneck for journal Editors and editorial staff. While many publications possess their own database of Reviewers, it is often limited in both scope and capacity, as the demand often surpasses the readily available number of candidates who make a suitable match. As a result, publications overtax their existing resources and struggle to expand their pool through external databases with minimal flexibility. To enhance this process and streamline peer review, Aries Systems and Scopus have collaborated to offer Find Reviewers using Scopus, a robust reviewer search and matching tool, directly integrated within Aries’ Editorial Manager® (EM), the leading manuscript submission and peer review tracking system.

Through this partnership, Find Reviewers using Scopus provides publishers using EM direct and seamless access to Scopus’ vast researcher database – connecting millions of candidates at the Editor’s fingertips. With over 100 Reviewers from diverse backgrounds in scientific, technical, medical, and social sciences literature surfaced in a single search, Find Reviewers using Scopus offers comprehensive coverage. Harnessing advanced and refined search parameters based on specific keywords, criteria, and a wide range of filters, it enables matches to the most suitable Reviewers – allowing Editors to make well-informed decisions and streamline the Reviewer selection process, ultimately saving time and effort. Rather than a static list of candidates with limited visibility into key information, Find Reviewers using Scopus is a dynamic search engine that allows Editors to conduct in-depth examinations of suggested Reviewer profiles. The tool also comes equipped with an innovative and flexible conflict of interest (COI) detection feature that automatically excludes inappropriate candidates and more against other conditions selected by the journal – supporting a more objective and equitable peer review workflow in EM.

“Aries is thrilled to partner with Scopus to offer a superior solution for connecting Editors to qualified Reviewers through the seamless integration of their extensive database within EM,” stated Aries Director of Business Development, Pierre Montagano. “Not only does this simplify the invitation experience for Editors but it also supports higher-quality reviews and streamlines peer review, which reduces time to publication and ensures sound research output.”

Join Aries’ upcoming webinar Streamline Reviewer Invitation with Scopus’ Advanced Search Solution on Wednesday, August 23 at 10am ET to learn more about this integration.

NISO Announces Publication of the Peer Review Terminology Standard

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is pleased to announce the publication of the Peer Review Terminology Standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.106-2023), which will support open research by simplifying the communication of peer review roles and practices and fostering greater transparency in the peer review process.

Peer review is universally acknowledged as critical to the research process, ensuring the quality and validity of scholarly research. With the move toward open research and the emergence of new peer review models, concerns around fairness in the peer review process have given rise to demands for greater transparency. Unfortunately, assessing peer review processes has been made difficult by the use of different nomenclature across publications. Recognizing the need for a solution, the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM) formed a working group on peer review terminology in 2019. After outlining an initial set of definitions and best practices, STM looked to NISO to build on these efforts and develop a formal industry standard.

ANSI/NISO Z39.106-2023, Peer Review Terminology, offers a simplified terminology that will make the peer review process more transparent to authors, reviewers, and readers across the journals that adopt it. A shared set of definitions will also enable the community to compare peer review processes across publications more easily. The new standard was developed for articles and journal publications, and a NISO Standing Committee may address books and other peer-reviewed research content in future.

Joris van Rossum, Director, Research Integrity, STM, who chaired the effort, remarked, “We are delighted that the Peer Review Terminology work is now an ANSI/NISO standard and are looking forward to this standardization enabling easy adoption and promulgation. Many pre-publication trials at publishers provided practical information to this output, and we are so appreciative of the valuable input of members of both the STM and later NISO working groups.”

Todd Carpenter, NISO Executive Director, added, “Strengthening overall trust in scholarly communication—in this case, the peer review process—through cooperation and open dialogue is exactly the role of NISO standards, and we are pleased to have been able to play a part in bringing the Peer Review Terminology to a wider community. Many thanks to Joris and the Working Group members for their energy and input. We look forward to continuing to support implementations of this new standard.”

The Peer Review Terminology Standard is freely available at https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/peer-review-terminology.

Consulting the research community on cOAlition S’s “Towards Responsible Publishing” proposal: an Invitation to Tender (ITT) to support this initiative

The European Science Foundation-Science Connect (ESF-SC), on behalf of cOAlition S, is seeking to engage a third-party contractor to devise and run a large-scale consultation with the research community regarding cOAlition S’s draft proposal, “Towards Responsible Publishing”.

In the five years that have elapsed since the publication of the Plan S principles, the move towards full and immediate Open Access (OA) has become global and irreversible. However, academic publishing practices have not kept up with rapid advances in the way science is performed, openly disseminated and used. In addition, the increasing reliance on Article Processing Charges (APCs) threatens the goal of universal OA because it substitutes a model of paywalls to one where researchers are unable to publish due to high fees.

These issues are forcing funders and other stakeholders – especially university libraries who procure publishing services on behalf of their researchers – to re-think how best to deliver Open Access in a responsible, equitable and sustainable way.

With this challenge in mind, cOAlition S is currently developing a new proposal, provisionally entitled “Towards Responsible Publishing”.  At the heart of this proposal is a vision to support a community-based communication system fit for open science in the 21st century. Such a system will empower scholars to share the full range of their research outputs and participate in new quality control mechanisms and evaluation standards for these outputs. We believe this approach will ensure rapid, transparent dissemination of high-quality scientific knowledge.

However, before any detailed plans are developed regarding the possible implementation of this proposal, we wish to consult with the research community at large.  To this end we are seeking support of a contractor to facilitate a consultative process that puts researchers at the forefront, providing them with the opportunity to voice their opinions and contribute to the development of a strategy that serves their needs.

Specifically, the overarching aims of this consultation are to:

  • determine to what extent the vision, mission and objectives set out in the draft proposal serve the needs of the global research community – including researchers who are funded by cOAlition S funders and those who are not;
  • understand how the “Towards Responsible Publishing” proposal might be modified or refined to ensure it resonates with the needs and aspirations of the research community and consequently garner broader support and adoption;
  • identify in the draft proposal any showstoppers or unintended consequences and propose proactive measures to mitigate them, ensuring a successful implementation;
  • ascertain whether (and if so, to what extent) the existing scholarly communication infrastructure can support this proposal; if it cannot, identify areas where research funders and others should best direct their funding to strengthen the infrastructure.

Once the consultation has been completed, the appointed contractor(s) will be required to analyse the outcomes and make recommendations to the cOAlition S leadership.  These recommendations must focus on how the proposal could be further developed to maximise its chances of success, and ultimately help to deliver an open, scholar-led communication ecosystem that removes barriers to participation for the benefit of science and society.

cOAlition S will publish the Towards Responsible Publishing proposal once the appointed contractor(s) has a mechanism in place for gathering feedback.  Shortlisted suppliers will also be sent a copy of the working draft, ahead of the interviews scheduled for 13th September 2023.

Responding to this ITT

The Invitation to Tender document (accessible here) outlines the key tasks the successful contractor must undertake, the deliverables, and a project timeline.  Given the size and global nature of the research community, some guidance is also provided on the level of engagement that we seek.

Contractors interested in applying are required to use the response grid provided in Annex A (pages 8-10).  All applications should be sent to Nora Papp-Le Roy (npappleroy@esf.org) by 09.00 CEST on Monday, 4th September 2023.

IEEE and CRUE Sign Three-Year Transformative Agreement to AccelerateOpen Access Publishing in Spain

IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, announced today that it has reached a three-year open access agreement with CRUE, a consortium of Spanish universities, to support authors in Spain who wish to publish open access.

With this new agreement, all researchers belonging to participating Spanish institutions 
can publish open access articles in approximately 200 leading journals and magazines published by IEEE. This makes critical papers instantly available and free to read by the public, supporting CRUE’s mission to help make their authors’ publications open to the world. Under the terms of the agreement, authors from participating institutions in Spain can publish open access in any of IEEE’s 160 hybrid open access journals. Further, authors will also receive a 20% discount off the article processing charges (APCs) for publishing in any of IEEE’s fully open access journals.

Participating members of the CRUE consortium will have:

  • Streamlined ease in publishing open access articles in IEEE periodicals, making articles instantly available and free to read by the general public
  • Publication of all open access IEEE journal articles with a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license unless otherwise requested by the author
  • Read access rights to over 5 million articles, including all IEEE periodicals, all IEEE conference papers (approximately 200,000 added each year) and IEEE standards 

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“This agreement with the research community at CRUE provides researchers in Spain with a wide array of open access publishing options across our highly-cited portfolio of publications,” said Karen Hawkins, Chief Marketing Officer at IEEE. “IEEE’s commitment to open science is reinforced by this agreement which allows IEEE to share the work of leading researchers with the global research community to further scientific and engineering progress.” 

Eva Alcón, President of CRUE, stated that “this agreement is a step forward towards the aims of Open Access this association has committed to. It will allow more research carried out in Spanish universities to be read, cited, and published.” She added that “in the road to the Knowledge Society it is essential to provide researchers and citizens with the widest possible access to scientific publications.” 

To learn more about the IEEE open access options for authors and institutions or to view a list of over 400 institutions that have an open access agreement with IEEE, please visit open.ieee.org.

Karger Publishers Partners with ChronosHub

Mutual Collaboration Simplifies Workflows to Manage Transformative Agreements (TF) and Open Access (OA) Publishing in One Place

Karger Publishers is thrilled to announce its latest partnership with ChronosHub, a platform offering a 360-degree approach to Open Access (OA) Management. This new collaboration benefits Karger’s institutional customers by fostering effective compliance and license management, improved handling of article processing charges and other related costs, billing, and collection, as well as data management and reporting. 

This cooperation signals Karger’s ongoing commitment to the Open Science movement by supporting users’ ability to see an overview of all details involving publishing agreements and their associated costs in a single place. Karger and ChronosHub entered their initial partnership in 2021. 

“We are passionate about helping organizations manage their Transformative Agreements by offering different OA publishing models for the utmost flexibility,” says Daniel Ebneter, CEO at Karger. “Through its offerings, ChronosHub is helping us drive the Open Science movement forward much further.”

As the name suggests, ChronosHub is a center point that saves researchers and authors time by guiding authors through the different publishing options, making funding policies and institutional agreements transparent and allowing easy author agreement completion. Through a collaborative approach, ChronosHub streamlines the workflow for institutions, publishers and funders for effective article processing charge management, OA agreement monitoring, funding policy compliance, repository deposits, and OA reporting.

“We are delighted to have Karger Publishers join the ChronosHub platform. Our collaboration is built on the shared vision of enhancing the entire publishing workflow and taking the author experience to the next level. Together, we’re committed to pushing boundaries and taking risks in an industry where few dare to venture”, Christian Grubak, Founder & Co-CEO, ChronosHub. 

Peer Review Week 2023 Explores the Future of Publishing

Over 30 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 “Peer Review and The Future of Publishing.” During the week of September 25-29, 2023, 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.

*Results of global Peer Review Week theme poll

Scholarly publishing is in a period of rapid, transformational change, fueled by new policies, new business models, new technologies, and a drive toward increased transparency and reproducibility. In the US, government agencies are determining how they will comply with the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memo calling for free, immediate and equitable access to federally funded research by 2026. Next year, Plan S will go into full effect, ending financial support for transformative agreements.

The advent of easily accessible large scale natural language processing tools like ChatGPT is opening a new realm of ethical and practical considerations. Non-article research outputs like data, methods, and code are gaining prominence, evolving from nice-to-have supporting documentation to citable published artifacts, formally preserved in the scientific record. Peer reviewers face increasing demands on their time and expertise, making it more challenging to secure reviewers. As it did in so many other areas, the pandemic has accelerated that trend—and that is just the beginning.

But in spite of these seismic shifts, peer review itself remains largely unchanged, both in its value to the scholarly community and its day-to-day practice at journals. Peer review is the primary way that journals evaluate the rigor, credibility, and potential interest of research submitted for publication consideration. What does the changing publishing landscape mean for the practice of peer review, and for peer reviewers themselves?

“This is a really timely moment to pause and think about what the future of journal publishing might look like, and the role of peer review in that. Are there opportunities to streamline, to create efficiencies, and reduce redundancy? To become less siloed and more collaborative as an industry? To apply technologies in a way that serves unbiased assessment and reduces the burden on reviewers?” says Peer Review Week committee co-chair Roohi Ghosh.

Committee co-chair Lindsay Morton concurred, adding, “Peer review is the research community’s way of policing itself. As publishers, libraries, funders, and other stakeholders, we can’t take on that role ourselves—but we can create ways to make it easier, more effective, and more fulfilling. And to distribute the rewards and responsibilities of peer review more equitably across the whole research community.”

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 2023 and share what your organization has planned using the hashtags: #PeerReviewWeek and #FutureofPeerReview.

IOP Publishing expands scope of prestigious journal Reports on Progress in Physics

IOP Publishing, a leading society owned scientific publisher, is announcing significant changes to its esteemed journal, Reports on Progress in Physics™. The move will modernise the title and position it at the pinnacle of the publisher’s extensive physics portfolio.

Building on the journal’s long-standing reputation as a source of authoritative reviews across all areas of physics, Reports on Progress in Physics is now also open for original research submissions and has introduced an open access option for all authors for the first time. In addition to its established reviews programme, and as part of an extended mission to serve the global physics community, the journal will start publishing breakthrough research that will have a long-term scientific influence on the future direction of a field.

Authors publishing original research in Reports on Progress in Physics will now benefit from an enhanced package of bespoke publishing and promotional services to maximise the reach and impact of their work. Post-publication support for authors will include coverage through webinars, press-releases, author interviews and feature pieces on IOP’s internationally renowned science news platform, Physics World. In compliance with funding body mandates and institutional policies, original research articles that are published on an open access basis will also be included in IOP Publishing’s expanding programme of Transformative Agreements that covers an increasing number of institutes around the world.

Over the past 90 years, Reports on Progress in Physics has become established as one of the world’s most influential journals for the physics community publishing seminal reviews, including articles by multiple Nobel Prize winners, that capture and represent nearly a century’s worth of landmark developments across the physical sciences.

The journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Professor Subir Sachdev of Harvard University, USA, says: “Reports on Progress in Physics has a long history of serving the entire physics community. It is established as one of the world’s authoritative journals for the field, boasting an archive of seminal and influential review content. The introduction of original research as a new option for authors means that Reports on Progress in Physics will be a home for even more essential research content for the benefit of its multidisciplinary audience. The original research content will reinforce the journal’s long-standing reputation as one of the most important resources for physicists at all career stages.”

Dr Tim Smith, Head of Portfolio Development at IOP Publishing says: “Reports on Progress in Physicsremains loyal to its founding mission to promote, advance and serve physics through a dedication to publishing excellence, broad and unbiased topical representation and global multidisciplinary appeal. By forming a new home for breakthrough new research supported by outstanding author service we’re excited by the prospect of modernising the journal in a way that will continue to deliver its core values, and guarantee its influence on physics for decades to come.”

IOP Publishing endorses equal opportunities for everyone to contribute to physical science. IOP Publishing will support researchers based in low income and lower middle-income countries whose work is accepted for publication in Reports on Progress in Physics by covering their article publication charges, enabling open access to their articles. As is the case for the rest of IOP Publishing’s hybrid and OA journals, waivers for eligible authors are applied automatically. Authors also have the option to submit their papers for double anonymous and transparent peer review. In the spirit of transparency and reproducibility, authors publishing in the journal are encouraged to share data and code where appropriate for the benefit of the research community.

Authors publishing in Reports on Progress in Physics not only support the advancement of physics in the broadest sense but also contribute to the Institute of Physics’ mission to make physics accessible to people from all backgrounds. All profits generated by IOP Publishing go directly to the Institute of Physics, furthering its efforts to promote the accessibility of physics education worldwide.

To find out more on publishing in Reports on Progress in Physics, visit our dedicated Reports on Progress in Physics page.

New Simba Report Uncovers Emerging Trends in Social Sciences and Humanities Publishing

Just launched by Simba Information is Global Social Sciences and Humanities Publishing 2023-2027. This new report identifies critical developments and trends across segments of this competitive global scholarly publishing market.

In 2022, the top ten competitors in the social sciences and humanities publishing market delivered revenue of $1.69 billion, increasing 4.2% over 2021 as a new competitor entered the segment. The new report chronicles strategic directions at major social sciences and humanities publishers, including Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, EBSCO, Springer Nature, and Sage Publishing.

Analysis of the competitive environment, market structure, and growth drivers forms the foundation of this Simba report. Its coverage encompasses business performance, corporate strategies, product development initiatives, and new product launches.

The new report analyzes developments that are shaping the marketplace now, including:

  • Academic sector trends that are affecting demand for SSH content;
  • A major acquisition that is disrupting the competitive landscape;
  • Image makeovers for two top publishers;
  • Important shifts in product form usage; 
  • Macro-economic impacts for publishers.

This report provides extensive analysis of mergers, acquisitions and partnerships: revealing where competitors are investing and seeking growth. Elsewhere in the report, the reader will find insights about product customers, trends in product use, geographic skews, product formats, and challenges facing the industry.

The report closes with Simba’s near-term outlook for leading competitors, estimated to grow 1.3% for 2023, and a forecast for the 2023-2027 period. Longer term, Simba projects that the total social sciences and humanities publishing market will reach $4.67 billion by 2027, reflecting economic headwinds during 2023 to 2025.

This Simba report provides detailed analysis of the performance and strategies of leading social science and humanities competitors, including Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, ProQuest, EBSCO Information Services, Springer Nature, Sage, Wiley, Cengage, Oxford University Press, and Cambridge University Press, and more.

NCUB respond to Horizon Europe funding programme

It has been announced that the UK and European Commission have reached a draft agreement on association to the Horizon Europe research and development funding programme.

NCUB has issued the following statement in response.

Responding to the news that the UK and European Commission have reached a draft association to the Horizon Europe funding programme, Joe Marshall, Chief Executive of the National Centre for Universities and Business, said:

‘We strongly welcome the news today that the government is in the final stages of reaching an agreement with the European Commission for the UK to associate to the Horizon Europe programme. This will re-establish and reinvigorate the vital connections that exist between UK and European researchers, working on some of the most pressing societal and economic challenges facing the world.

‘The UK’s longstanding participation in European research and innovation funding has been a hugely significant and valuable feature of our national R&D system. The funding is important, but more so is the deep and valuable connections it allows UK researchers and innovators to make across European nations and beyond.’

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