Large Number Of Bentham Science Journals Win Impact Factors

July 6, 2023

Bentham Science Publishers, a leading medical and technical academic publisher (www.benthamscience.com), is thrilled to announce a significant journal portfolio development. This year, an unprecedented 25 new journals have been added to the Bentham list of titles with Clarivate Journal Impact Factors, bringing the total to 66. Among the new additions, three are fully open access.

Dr. Frans Lettenstrom, Bentham’s Global Sales Director and leader of the founding of the Swedish Library Consortium, commented, “It’s great to see such a considerable proportion of new journals added to the Clarivate database at the same time. This is a major accomplishment for Bentham, and we take immense pride in this achievement as a team.

Bentham Science Publishers wishes to thank everyone who has contributed to our mission of promoting science for scientists.

List of Bentham journals now with an Impact Factor:

S.No.	Journals:	2022
1	Current Neuropharmacology	5.3
2	Recent Advances In Inflammation & Allergy Drug Discovery	4.6
3	Current Vascular Pharmacology	4.5
4	Current Reviews In Clinical And Experimental Pharmacology	4.3
5	Current Medicinal Chemistry	4.1
6	Current Bioinformatics	4
7	Mini-Review In Medicinal Chemistry	3.8
8	Current Gene Therapy	3.6
9	Current Topics In Medicinal Chemistry	3.4
10	Current Diabetes Reviews	3.3
11	Current Drug Targets	3.2
12	Current Pharmaceutical Design	3.1
13	Current Cancer Drug Targets	3
14	Cns & Neurological Disordorder Drug Targets	3
15	Current Protein & Peptide Science	2.8
16	Recent Patent In Anti-Cancer	2.8
17	Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology	2.8
18	Anti-Cancer Agent Me	2.8
19	Current Molecular Pharmacology	2.7
20	Current Stem Cell Research & Therapy	2.7
21	Current Genomics	2.6
22	Current Organic Chemistry	2.6
23	Current Molecular Medicine	2.5
24	Current Drug Delivery	2.4
25	Current Drug Metabolism	2.3
26	Medicinal Chemistry	2.3
27	Mini-Reviews In Organic Chemistry	2.3
28	Current Radiopharmaceuticals	2.3
29	Current Hypertension Reviews	2.3
30	Current Green Chemistry	2.2
31	Current Alzheimer Research	2.1
32	Current Neurovascular Research	2.1
33	Recent Patent In Nanotechnology	2
34	Current Pediatric Reviews	2
35	Endocrine Metabolic & Immune Disorder Drug Targets	1.9
36	Current Cardiology Reviews	1.9
37	Reviews Of Recent Clinical Trials	1.9
38	Current Analytical Chemistry	1.8
39	Current Organic Synthesis	1.8
40	Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening	1.8
41	Current Computer-Aided Drug Design	1.7
42	Protein Peptide Letters	1.6
43	Current Nanoscience	1.5
44	Current Drug Safety	1.5
45	Current Rheumatology Reviews	1.5
46	Current Medical Imaging	1.4
47	Open Dentistry Journal	1.3
48	Current Organocatalysis	1.1
49	Current HIV Research	1
50	Letters In Drug Design & Discovery	1
51	Current Nutrition & Food Science	0.9
52	Letters In Organic Chemistry	0.8
53	Current Proteomics	0.8
54	Current Microwave Chemistry	0.8
55	Natural Products Journal	0.8
56	Open Cardiovascular Medicine Journal	0.8
57	Current Pharmaceutical Analysis	0.6
58	Current Cancer Therapy Reviews	0.6
59	Current Drug Therapy	0.6
60	Current Traditional Medicine	0.6
61	Recent Advances In Electrical & Electronic Engineering	0.6
62	Adolescent Psychiatry	0.4
63	Current Psychiatry Research And Reviews	0.4
64	Current Womens Health Reviews	0.4
65	Open Ophthalmology Journal	0.3
66	Current Respiratory Medicine Reviews	0.2

To explore Bentham Science’s complete journal portfolio, please visit: www.benthamscience.com

BMJ expands open access offering across Europe

July 5, 2023

BMJ expands open access offering across Europe with three Read and Publish agreements in France

Leading healthcare knowledge provider BMJ partners with Hospices Civils de Lyon, Université Côte d’Azur, and Université de Bordeaux to support open access publishing and advance healthcare research

Leading global healthcare knowledge provider, BMJ, is expanding its open access offering across Europe through three Read and Publish agreements with leading institutions in France, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Université Côte d’Azur, and Université de Bordeaux. This agreement marks BMJ’s first Transitional agreements in France, building on its European Consortia deals in the UK, Sweden, Ireland and Germany.

The agreements will cover the cost of article processing charges (APCs) incurred by eligible authors when publishing in any of the BMJ Standard Collection or Gold Open Access journals, including BMJ’s flagship journal, The BMJ. This will allow affiliated corresponding authors to publish their primary research open access (OA) at no cost to them.

BMJ is a pioneer and champion of open access as a way to promote knowledge and accelerate discoveries. The company places a great deal of importance on increasing the reach and use of what we publish and is committed to innovating and advancing health research. With this expansion of this open access offering in Europe, BMJ is excited to continue providing access to quality, trusted healthcare information and supporting the scientific community to help create a healthier world. The healthcare knowledge provider is proud to partner with these prestigious institutions in France and looks forward to collaborating with them to advance the healthcare research field.

Allison Lang, Publishing Director at BMJ, said:

“As a pioneer and champion of open access, BMJ continually looks for new ways to support the research community through our Read and Publish agreements. We will continue to provide access to quality, trusted healthcare information and support open access publishing.

“This agreement is another step forward in further transitioning research to open access to make it widely visible and accessible to support improvements in policy and practice. Additionally, we are delighted to partner with these three esteemed universities, all of whom collectively share the goal of supporting the scientific community to help create a healthier world.”

BMJ continues its commitment to advancing scientific discovery, having recently renewed all existing Read and Publish deals; flipped its first transformative journal Evidence Based Medicine Mental Health, to open access, now called BMJ Mental Health; and launched two new open access journals, BMJ Oncology and BMJ Public Health.

SSP Announces RFP for Abstract Management System

July 5, 2023

The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is accepting proposals for an abstract management system on a cost-neutral basis to support the needs of the organization as described within the Scope of Services starting in September 2023. The goal of this RFP is to enter into an arrangement that provides a supplier with the promotion of its brand to influencers and purchasers in exchange for abstract management services.

The scope outlines some of the roles, functionality, and general attributes sought in an abstract management system for the submission, review, and final publication of our Annual Meeting session abstracts. We invite bidders to offer suggested solutions that may include but are not necessarily limited to these requirements.

In-kind donors have the opportunity to showcase their products and services to scholarly publishing professionals throughout the world. In addition to the visibility of their products/services by SSP members and other industry professionals, in-kind donors will be acknowledged and recognized across SSP’s communication channels.

SSP believes industry suppliers are essential to our organization and would like for each of our members who provide these services to have an equal opportunity to offer their solutions for this purpose. The deadline to receive proposals for consideration is July 22, 2023.

All questions and proposals should be submitted via email to Susan Patton, Program Director, at spatton@sspnet.org.

IOP Publishing accelerates OA publishing in Oman with Sultan Qaboos University agreement

July 5, 2023

Sultan Quaboos University (SQU) and society publisher IOP Publishing (IOPP) have established a transformative agreement enabling researchers to publish their work openly for anyone to read at no cost to them. It is IOPP’s first unlimited publishing agreement in Oman supporting the University’s ambition to make scientific research accessible to as many people as possible.

The three-year agreement allows SQU researchers unlimited open access (OA) publishing across all IOPP owned journals and most partner journals while retaining their copyright. The contract also gives unrestricted reading access to IOPP’s entire journal portfolio.

Led by top universities, transformative agreements are gaining traction across the Middle East and North Africa. The agreements make it easier for scientist to publish their research as their institution covers the cost of both reading access and OA publishing.

A recent global survey carried out by IOPP together with other physical societies shows that 32% of physical science researchers based in Afrika and the Middle East want to publish their work (OA) but 77% say a lack of monies from funding agencies prevents them from doing so.

Researchers can find out if their institution is covered by a transformative agreement, or check compliance with funder requirements by using the IOPP Journal Finder tool.

Yaqoob Al-Busaidi – Head of the Periodicals Department at SQU says: “IOPP is paving the way for a successful OA transformation with their unlimited publishing option for researchers worldwide. We are pleased to take our partnership with IOPP to the next level and sign a transformative agreement that will enable SQU research to have more impact and visibility.”

The benefits of OA publishing are reflected in IOPP research which shows that OA content is downloaded 80% more than paywalled content and cited 30% more.

Julian Wilson, Chief Sales Officer at IOP Publishing says: “SQU has truly embraced the transition to OA, and we are honoured to be the first physics publisher to have secured this unlimited OA publishing agreement with them. The agreement strengthens our commitment to Open Physics which supports our mission to create greater visibility, recognition and impact for the science community.”

The Sultan Quaboos University joins more than 900 institutions in 33 countries which have also secured transformative agreements with IOP Publishing.

University of Hertfordshire joins national open access deal with Frontiers as publishing partner

June 30, 2023

We would like to announce that the University of Hertfordshire has joined the national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers.  This deal provides a simplified and streamlined route to open access publishing for researchers in the UK, who publish 7% of the world’s research. 

The University of Hertfordshire supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this deal, eligible authors may publish in any Frontiers journal with a discount of 10% on Article Processing Charges (APCs) for articles.

This agreement will further encourage the University of Hertfordshire’s researchers to publish open access, increasing the volume of research openly available. While this reduces costs for the researcher, it also benefits the wider research community and the public at large.  

For more information on Frontiers’ institutional agreements please visit our institutional memberships page or contact institutions@frontiersin.org to discuss the possibilities for your own organization. 

Clarivate Announces Partnership with AI21 Labs as part of its Generative AI Strategy to Drive Growth

June 30, 2023

Clarivate Plc (NYSE: CLVT), a global leader in connecting people and organizations to intelligence they can trust to transform their world, today announced a strategic partnership with AI21 Labs, a pioneer in generative artificial intelligence (AI). The collaboration will integrate large language models into solutions from Clarivate, to enable intuitive academic conversational search and discovery, specifically designed to foster researcher excellence and drive success for researchers and students, while adhering to core academic principles and values.

AI has the potential to revolutionize the world, but its effectiveness relies heavily on the quality of the training data. With billions of trusted, curated, articles, books, documents and propriety best in class data points, Clarivate is well-placed to lead the market on this opportunity, providing customers with the highest quality open, licensed and proprietary content, data and insights while mitigating associated risks.

“We hear from our customers that they are excited about the possibilities that generative AI can bring to help them get more accurate answers faster and be more productive,” said Jonathan Gear, Chief Executive Officer, Clarivate. “We have already been using AI in our products for years and our customers trust us to apply new technologies in a responsible way to help them advance their goals and achieve bigger breakthroughs. As part of our growth strategy, we are continuously looking at exciting new ways of applying AI and machine learning responsibly to create new products, enhance productivity and drive better customer outcomes that will provide opportunities to increase value while improving speed-to-market.”

The partnership with AI21 Labs will combine curated and trusted content from Clarivate with AI21 Labs’ state-of-the-art large language models, to further enhance libraries’ solutions to their users. It will provide students, faculty and researchers with rapid access to detailed and contextual information and answers along with more personalized services to offer benefits such as relevant recommendations. Conversational search across discovery solutions will allow students to intuitively interact with discovery services, aggregated databases and collections to receive more relevant, diversified results and services based on trusted content.

Bar Veinstein, President, Academia & Government at Clarivate said, “AI is deeply embedded in our academia and library business. Through this partnership – with our trusted content as the foundation – AI-powered services from Clarivate will be transformative for libraries and academic institutions. We aim to empower researchers and students with the tools they need to gain insights from the ever-growing volume of scholarly content, while upholding academic integrity and observing ethical standards. By utilizing these new AI-powered services, forward-thinking institutions will be at the forefront of improved teaching experience and accelerated pace of research. We will continue to work very closely with our customers, user groups, and partners, to ensure the effective, accurate and responsible roll-out of these exciting developments.”

“At AI21 Labs we’re focused on leveraging our state-of-the-art LLMs for real-world solutions, bringing their value to millions of people,” said Ori Goshen, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of AI21 Labs. “With this partnership, Clarivate is joining the many companies that integrate our generative AI’s versatile capabilities to transform large amounts of text into products that are more sophisticated than existing tools for language generation and comprehension. Our language models are well-equipped to provide high-quality, contextual-based answers and services for Clarivate’s troves of content and data, making us the right partner for them.”

Wiley and the European College of Sport Science announce partnership

June 30, 2023

Wiley, a knowledge company and global leader in research, publishing and knowledge solutions, today announced that it will publish the European Journal of Sport Science (EJSS) on behalf of the European College of Sport Science (ECSS) beginning in January 2024, spearheading the journal’s transition to open access.

“EJSS is one of the preeminent multidisciplinary sport science journals,” said Allyn Molina, Vice President for Life Sciences at Wiley. “As a publisher at the forefront of the transition to open access, Wiley looks forward to partnering with ECSS to take EJSS to the next level and establish it as the leading open resource for sport science.”

EJSS publishes the highest caliber scientific research and scholarship in applied sport science; sports and exercise medicine including services like Sports massage for athletes NYC; biomechanics and motor control; physiology and nutrition; and psychology, social science, and humanities. The journal will welcome open access submissions starting in autumn of 2023 and expects to complete the transition to fully open access by January 2024. On the other hand, as for athletes who want to upgrade their training sessions, they can check out the assortment of sporting goods online.

“ECSS is delighted to be partnering with Wiley to publish our official journal European Journal of Sport Science,” said ECSS President Professor Jørn Wulff Helge. “We will work closely with Wiley’s expert team to advance the journal, repositioning it as a global open access resource for sport science researchers, practitioners, and anyone with an interest in sport, exercise and health. As a disseminator of high quality, multidisciplinary sport science research, ECSS supports the movement towards an open publishing environment, making research more accessible and discoverable to everyone.” So for those who want to try a new sport, they must first be well-equipped with items like that arrow quiver.

This new partnership reflects Wiley’s ongoing commitment to the principles and practices of open access. Wiley partners with more professional societies than any other publisher to disseminate scientific knowledge with the fewest possible barriers to access and sharing.

Silverchair Affirms Commitment to Customer Success & Community-Led Innovation with Two New Leadership Hires

June 30, 2023

Silverchair announced today the expansion of their Customer Success team with the addition of Emilie Delquié as SVP of Product and Customer Success and Veronica Showers as VP of Customer Success. Both are engaged industry leaders, together bringing more than four decades of relationship management experience to the team.

As SVP of Product and Customer Success, Emilie Delquié will join Silverchair’s Executive Team and will lead the strategic direction of the Customer Success function to expand and evolve the ways we engage with clients. In addition, she will help lead the Product team in ensuring that our investments and ways of working meet the needs of Silverchair’s growing community. Emilie comes to Silverchair most recently from Copyright Clearance Center, with previous roles at Ingenta and the University of Massachusetts library. She is also serving her second term as Treasurer for the Society for Scholarly Publishing.

Veronica Showers is a SaaS account management leader with 20+ years’ experience in the industry, most recently at Aries Systems and Wiley Atypon. In her role as VP of Customer Success, she will partner closely with the rest of the Customer Success team and Silverchair’s client portfolio on strategy and projects to fulfill our publishers’ long-term goals. She will also collaborate with Silverchair’s Business Development, Marketing, Product, and Delivery teams to ensure a consistently high-level of client satisfaction.

“Silverchair strives to be deeply collaborative, open, and community focused. Emilie and Veronica’s appointments reinforce our commitment to being the leading independent platform and technology provider to associations, societies, and publishers,” said Will Schweitzer, President of Silverchair. “Emilie and Veronica bring a wealth of experience and industry perspective to our leadership team. I’m thrilled that they’ve joined, and I’m excited to see how they help us grow.”

“I am very excited to join the Silverchair team and to partner with their growing client community in this new role,” said Delquié. “Silverchair’s commitment to listening to their clients and to staying close to the quickly evolving market needs was energizing from day one, and I look forward to taking this vision forward with my new colleagues.”

“I am thrilled to join Silverchair’s leadership team and honored to be part of an innovative organization that revolutionizes how scholarly publishers distribute and share knowledge, said Showers. “I am excited to collaborate with our customers and support them in maximizing the value and potential of this transformative solution. Our team will continue redefining the future of scholarly publishing, elevating how information is accessed, discovered, and shared globally.”

Over 650 institutions in 41 countries are participating in The Company of Biologists’ Read & Publish initiative in 2023

June 28, 2023

We are delighted to announce that a further 58 institutions have joined our cost-neutral Read & Publish Open Access (OA) initiative since January 2023.

Over 650 institutions in 41 countries are now participating. In addition, a further two library consortia; the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER) and the Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) Consortium in Hong Kong, have also recently signed agreements increasing the number of participating consortia to 12.

The success of our Read & Publish initiative is continuing to drive significant growth in the proportion of OA research content in our hybrid journals – Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology – which were the first in the world to be afforded Transformative Journal status by Plan S. All three Transformative Journals met their targets for Open Access growth in both 2021 and 2022. Our increasing proportions of OA content are driven by our Read & Publish agreements, which represented 71% of the total number of Open Access articles published in the hybrid journals in 2022.

We are also delighted that nearly half of participating libraries have opted to include our fully Open Access journals – Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open – in their Read & Publish agreements in 2023.

Shelly Turner, Head of Sales and Business Development at The Company of Biologists:

“We are delighted with the continuing support for our Read & Publish initiative from our library customers and library consortia around the world. We are also thrilled that nearly half of our Read & Publish customers are benefitting from the five-journal package which offers uncapped submission of Open Access research articles in our three hybrid and two fully Open Access journals which will help us to reach our targets for OA growth over the coming years.”

Claire Moulton, Publisher, The Company of Biologists:

“As part of our long-standing commitment to OA and our track record of innovation, we were one of the first not-for-profit publishers to launch a Read & Publish initiative. The ongoing success of the initiative is supporting our Transformative Journal strategy and has helped us to meet our targets for OA growth. We have also been delighted with the fantastic feedback we have had from authors who have benefitted from immediate and fee-free OA publishing in our journals, particularly from early-career researchers for whom lack of funding can be a major issue.”

Clarivate Unveils Journal Citation Reports 2023 – a Trusted Resource to Support Research Integrity and Promote Accurate Journal Evaluation

June 28, 2023

Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in connecting people and organizations to intelligence they can trust to transform their world, today released the 2023 update to its annual Journal Citation Reports™ (JCR)™. This annual release identifies more than 21,500 high-quality academic journals from across 250+ scientific and research disciplines. Only journals that have met the rigorous quality standards for inclusion in the Web of Science™ index are selected, to ensure that users can confidently rely on the information and data provided to foster and support collective community goals to adhere to research integrity norms.

For nearly half a century, the information released in the annual Journal Citation Reports has been trusted by the global academic community as a reliable resource for identifying leading journals in their fields. It provides clarity of key citation impact trends, powered by a range of indicators, descriptive data and compelling visualizations,enabling meaningful comparisons and insights.

The annual reports incorporate a variety of metrics, including the widely recognized Journal Impact Factor™ (JIF)™ and the Journal Citation Indicator. Clarivate advocates that journal editors and the wider scholarly community make use of the broad contextual information provided alongside the Journal Impact Factor to present a comprehensive view of a journal’s influence.

This year for the first time, all Web of Science Core Collection™ journals that passed the rigorous Web of Science quality criteria and were accepted before January 1, 2023, were eligible to receive a Journal Impact Factor. By expanding the JIF to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index™ (AHCI) and the multidisciplinary Emerging Sources Citation Index™ (ESCI), more than 9,000 journals from more than 3,000 publishers now have a JIF for the first time. This indicator helps the scholarly community more easily identify trustworthy, high-quality journals that have been selected by the Web of Science editorial team. Selection is only granted to journals that have met the 24 rigorous quality criteria applied on evaluation. Just 15% of journals evaluated by an in-house editorial team pass this high-quality bar.

Furthermore, the JCR 2023 release presents the JIF with one decimal place, rather than three. This move to one decimal place introduces more ties, which will encourage users to consider additional indicators and descriptive data when comparing journals. The Journal Citation Indicator – a normalized journal-level metric – is emphasized for easy interpretation and cross-disciplinary comparison.

Dr. Nandita Quaderi, Editor-in-Chief & Vice President of the Web of Science, Clarivate, said: “As part of our ongoing commitment to providing transformative intelligence and trusted content, all quality journals in the Web of Science Core Collection are now eligible for a Journal Impact Factor. The JIF was introduced in 1975 as a measure of scholarly impact and was restricted to journals in the sciences and social sciences. As fraudulent behavior has intensified in scholarly publishing, there is an increasing need for markers of trustworthiness. In this year’s JCR release we expand the JIF from only the most impactful science and social science journals to journals across all disciplines that have passed our rigorous quality evaluation. This means the JIF is now a reliable indicator of trustworthiness, as well as a measure of scholarly impact, at the journal level.”

Emmanuel Thiveaud, Senior Vice President for Research & Analytics, Academia & Government at Clarivate added: “Research integrity is crucial for ensuring the credibility, reliability and trustworthiness of the scientific and scholarly record. It is of paramount importance to us at Clarivate that our data in the Web of Science citation index and the JCR metrics derived from it are accurate and reliable for the purposes of research discovery and assessment. This year we have taken significant additional steps to foster research integrity in the Web of Science as we seek to uphold the highest ethical standards and proactively contribute to the maintenance of public trust in scientific and scholarly research.”

Key highlights from the 2022 data include:

More than 21,500 high-quality journals from 254 research categories and 112 countries are identified and receive a JIF. This includes:
- 13,668 science journals
- 7,123 social science journals
- 3,248 arts & humanities journals
More than 5,600 journals publish all their content as open access
9,136 journals receive a Journal Impact Factor for the first time

The JCR is based on 2022 data compiled from the Web of Science Core Collection, the leading collection of quality journals, books and conference proceedings in the world’s largest publisher-neutral global citation database. Publications are evaluated by a global team of in-house editors at Clarivate using rigorous selection criteria. The data from selected content are then carefully curated to ensure accuracy in the JCR metrics, together with a wide body of descriptive data. These insights enable researchers, publishers, editors, librarians and funders to explore the key drivers of a journal’s value for diverse audiences.

Clarivate is proud of its commitment to deliver unbiased, publisher-neutral information, which does not promote or endorse any specific publishers. This enables confident decision-making for a wide group of stakeholders including publishers, academic institutions, funders and researchers.

Each journal profile in the JCR provides a rich array of journal intelligence metrics, allowing users to filter and rank journals by category. These metrics include:

The Journal Citation Indicator, which represents the average category-normalized citation impact for papers published in the prior three-year period
The Immediacy Index, which measures how frequently the journal’s content is cited within the same year as publication
Cited half-life, which is the median age, in years, of items in the journal that were cited during the JCR year
The Journal Impact Factor, which scales the citations received to recent content by a measure of the size of the journal’s scholarly output
In addition, the Journal Citation Reports include descriptive data such as availability of open access content, top contributing institutions and regions

To explore all available data, metrics and analysis visit the Journal Citation Reports. For further insights into this year’s release, please refer to our series of blogs. The changes to the 2023 release apply from this year forward; no changes will be made to data from previous years.

Chemical & Engineering News welcomes new editor in chief, Mohammed Yahia

June 28, 2023

The American Chemical Society (ACS) is pleased to announce that Mohammed Yahia will assume the editor-in-chief role of its weekly news magazine, Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN). Yahia will replace Interim Editor Michael McCoy.

“It is a privilege to lead the C&EN team in the magazine’s next phase as a digital publication for the global chemistry community and beyond,” Yahia says. “I am committed to ensuring that C&EN maintains its integrity and independence, offering timely breaking news, captivating in-depth features and thought-provoking commentary on the latest advancements in the field of chemistry.”

Yahia comes to ACS from Springer Nature, where he has been an executive editor since 2014. He will assume his ACS duties in the coming weeks and will report to Sarah Tegen, senior vice president, ACS Publications. He will be responsible for ensuring an appropriate balance of news and feature stories on science, business and policy that address topics of interest to the global chemistry enterprise. He will lead the effort to develop a forward-looking strategic plan that cements C&EN’s reputation as a trailblazing and essential resource for the next century.

“We are excited that Mohammed is joining ACS to lead the beginning of the next centennial of C&EN,” ACS Chief Executive Officer Albert G. Horvath says. “His creativity and vision will leverage the publication’s historic strengths and help to grow it globally. His experience brings the right perspective to help C&EN thrive.”

In his time with Springer Nature, Yahia launched several new magazines, both in print and digital. He has extensive experience working in the digital-first publication space, and he led several global editorial teams, working with content in various languages, particularly English and Arabic. From 2017 to 2019, he was the president of the World Federation of Science Journalists.

OASPA and DOAJ Launch New Open Access Toolkit to Empower Scholarly Publishers and Researcher

June 28, 2023

Answering the need for an online resource to support new and established open access journals in navigating the rapidly changing landscape of open access publishing.

The Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) and DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) today release a new Open Access Journals Toolkit. The launch of the Toolkit marks a significant milestone in the efforts of OASPA and DOAJ to promote transparency, accessibility, and inclusivity in scholarly publishing. The Toolkit answers a need for an online resource to support new and established open access journals in navigating the rapidly changing landscape of open access publishing. The Open Access Journals Toolkit design process began in November 2022 and ended in June 2023 with this launch.

Intended for anyone involved in journal publishing and with a strong focus on helping under-resourced journals globally, the Toolkit enables empowered and informed decision-making. It will contribute to the advancement of scholarly publishing standards and best practices.

Claire Redhead, OASPA’s Executive Director, says: ‘OASPA has been a home for small publishers and scholar-led journals since it was founded and has a strong, global community of members who are passionate people running journals in a wide range of disciplines. We field lots of questions related to running journals – particularly for people based in institutions without publishing support at hand. We’ve long wanted a central place to be able to point to that brings guidance and resources together in an easy-to-follow format that can be self-guided and easy to download or share, and we’re delighted to have had a fantastic editorial board to help us develop a toolkit that we hope will provide exactly that practical support for open access journals. It’s fantastic to see it launch, and it’s a great starting point – but we also welcome feedback from the community to help us develop it even further.’

Dominic Mitchell, DOAJ Operations Manager, said: ‘Launching the Toolkit with OASPA is perfectly aligned with DOAJ’s mission to increase the impact of quality, peer-reviewed, open access scholarly research journals globally, regardless of discipline, geography or language. We have created a resource that aims to be globally relevant and up-to-date, with a dedicated editorial board. We look forward to the response and input from the community and to further additions to this great resource.’

OASPA and DOAJ are committed to supporting the global research community’s transition to open access.

Full information can be found at https://oaspa.org/launch-of-new-open-access-toolkit

To stay updated on the Open Access Journals Toolkit, visit oajournals-toolkit.org or follow OASPA and DOAJ on social media.