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Clarivate Adds Preprint Citation Index to the Web of Science

Clarivate Plc, a global leader in connecting people and organizations to intelligence they can trust to transform their world, has added the Preprint Citation Index™ to the Web of Science™ platform. Researchers can now locate and link to preprints alongside other trusted content in the database, to streamline the research process and help make meaningful connections faster.

In academic publishing, a preprint is a version of a research paper or outcome publicly available in online repositories prior to peer review. Access to preprints in the Web of Science makes it quicker and easier for researchers to include them in their existing research workflows. It enables immediate access to up-to-date, aggregated and searchable preprints from selected repositories linked to author profiles.

At launch, the Preprint Citation Index provides nearly two million preprints from the arXiv, bioRxiv, chemRxiv, medRxiv, and Preprints.org repositories. Papers from more than a dozen additional repositories will be added throughout 2023. Preprint records are discoverable alongside other scholarly output in the Web of Science and connected to final versions of record, where applicable. They are clearly marked in search results and not included in any citation metrics including Times Cited Counts or the Journal Impact Factor™ (JIF) within the Web of Science Core Collection™ or Journal Citation Reports™.

The Preprint Citation Index enables users to:

  • Locate versions of record (where applicable) for preprints: Find and reference peer-reviewed articles with links from preprints to Web of Science Core Collection
  • Connect preprints to journal articles: Uncover connections between cutting-edge preprints indexed in the Preprint Citation Index and journal articles indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection via citation linking.
  • Expand the view of a researcher’s expertise: Place preprints in the context of a researcher’s career with preprints displayed on an author’s Web of Science Researcher Profile.
  • Monitor new research across several repositories: An author can set an alert for keywords or a named researcher of interest to be notified when relevant preprints become available.

Francesca Buckland, Senior Director of Product Management, Web of Science at Clarivate: “For researchers focused on today’s urgent global challenges, access to preprints can significantly speed up scientific progress and fuel the world’s greatest breakthroughs. We’ve created the Preprint Citation Index to support faster, more complete research, through the lens of the trusted high-quality content for which the Web of Science is known.”

Taylor & Francis Becomes the Newest Supporter of Open Pharma

Open Pharma and Taylor & Francis are delighted to announce that Taylor & Francis has become the latest official Supporter of the Open Pharma initiative.

Open Pharma aims to drive positive change in the communication of research funded by the pharmaceutical industry, with workstreams focused on improving the transparency, accountability, accessibility and discoverability of published research.

Taylor & Francis is one of the world’s leading scholarly publishers and has a strong commitment to open research principles. Today‘s announcement that Taylor & Francis has become an official Supporter of Open Pharma reflects the fact that the two organizations share the same commitment to connecting pharma with innovations in publishing to increase transparency and access to research outputs.

These shared values were illustrated in 2021, when Open Pharma published their recommendations for plain language summaries of peer-reviewed medical journal publications in the Taylor & Francis journal Current Medical Research and Opinion (CMRO).* One of more than 2700 peer-reviewed journals published by Taylor & Francis, Open Pharma selected CMRO because of its complete range of open access options and its commitment to publishing innovations and research in medical and scientific publishing.

As Tim Koder, one of the founders of Open Pharma, commented, “Taylor & Francis has been part of the Open Pharma story since we started in 2017, and we’ve always valued their expert contributions to our meetings, research and communication projects. We’re delighted that Taylor & Francis has now joined as an Open Pharma Supporter company, with privileged access to conversations about the future of pharma industry communications and the opportunity to help steer the project in new directions”.

Elizabeth Knowles, Global Portfolio Director for Medicine at Taylor & Francis explained, “Taylor & Francis has valued the opportunities to contribute to the development of Open Pharma since its launch, so it’s great to mark that officially today by becoming a Supporter. The open science advances championed by Open Pharma will make a significant difference to both the integrity and impact of pharmaceutical research, but these ambitions will only be fully realized with broad and coordinated effort. We therefore hope many more organizations, across publishing, medcomms, pharma and other stakeholder groups, will join us in supporting the fantastic work of Open Pharma”.

Taylor & Francis joins a growing group of Open Pharma Members and Supporters from the publishing, medical communications and pharmaceutical industries (AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, Galapagos, Gilead, GSK, Ipsen, Janssen, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Oxford PharmaGenesis, Pfizer, Roche, UCB and Wiley). The formal support of Taylor & Francis, will further enrich the breadth of stakeholder perspectives among the Open Pharma Member and Supporter group.

Pilot project eliminates author processing charges for all PLOS journals

The two-year project will see the elimination of author/article processing charges in all PLOS journals. 

McMaster University Libraries are partnering with the Public Library of Science (PLOS) in a pilot project to remove financial barriers to publishing research. 

The two-year project will see the elimination of author/article processing charges (APCs) in all PLOS journals. Typically, authors incur APCs to cover the cost associated with making their article publicly available for free in open access journals.

This means that McMaster faculty, staff, and students won’t need to worry about the financial implications of publishing in a PLOS journal from Feb. 1, 2023 through Jan. 31, 2025.

“The pilot is an amazing opportunity for graduate students and early career researchers, in particular, to more easily disseminate their work without having to incur the costs associated with publishing,” said Jennifer McKinnell, director of Health Sciences Library at McMaster. “We hope this agreement will encourage McMaster researchers to pursue open access publishing in PLOS journals.”

PLOS is a non-profit, open access publisher focused on research in science, technology, and medicine.

McMaster University Libraries is dedicated to innovative open scholarship opportunities, and as such, will cover the cost of the two-year flat fee, based on the university’s current publication output, to allow for unlimited PLOS publishing opportunities by McMaster authors. Library staff will evaluate the effectiveness of the agreement and project future cost implications at the end to determine the project’s sustainability.

The elimination of APCs for corresponding authors will expand the publishing opportunities for all researchers regardless of their career stage, or whether they have research grants or departmental funding. It will also benefit authors who did not factor APCs into their grants or who do not have additional funds to publish in an open access journal.

“This agreement exemplifies McMaster University Libraries’ commitment to open access publishing,” said Casey Hoeve, associate university librarian, Content, Access and Open Licensing at McMaster University Library. “Publishing in an open access journal has gained traction over the years because of its potential to broaden the reach of the published research.”

Authors associated with the university should use their McMaster email address (@mcmaster.ca) when submitting an article to ensure streamlined access to this new opportunity.

Watch this PLOS video for information on how authors self-identify with the institution at the time of submission.

Visit the PLOS website for a listing of all journals.

To view all publisher discounts available through McMaster libraries, visit the library support for open access webpage.

Developing a globally fair pricing model for Open Access academic publishing

cOAlition S is seeking to engage the services of a consultant to explore how a globally fair pricing system for academic publishing could be devised and implemented. The European Science Foundation, which hosts the cOAlition S office, will award the contract on behalf of cOAlition S.

cOAlition S is participating with  UNESCO, the International Science Council (ISC), the Open Access 2020 Initiative (OA2020), Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL), the Association of African Universities, and Science Europe in organising a series of workshops on global equity in Open Access publishing. The first of these workshops focused on viewpoints from Europe and Africa, and participants formulated a variety of proposals, including a call for publishers to adopt more equitable practices, including but not limited to transparent pricing of Open Access publishing services based on purchasing power parity (PPP).

As a follow-up to the workshop, cOAlition S wishes to commission a study to explore how a globally fair pricing system for academic publishing could be devised and implemented. We will work with our partners in the Global Equity Workshop in taking this forward.

The key objective of this study is to identify ways in which readers and producers of scholarly publications (or their proxies, namely research funders and universities, could financially contribute to supporting the academic publishing services valued by their research communities as a function of their means in a manner that is globally equitable and sustainable.

From subscription to producer-pays

As observed by Osman & Rooryck (2022), the transition of academic publishing from the subscription model to Open Access shifts payments for publishing services from readers to producers of knowledge. Although this transition makes publications accessible to readers globally, many authors and institutions worldwide do not have access to publishing in journals whose prices they cannot afford.

Inequities

The current pricing practices in open access publishing models where costs are borne by the producers of knowledge – authors, funders, or universities – do not currently serve regional and global equity, as they do not reflect equitable standards such as local purchasing power.

For example, APCs paid for Open Access articles are priced at an identical level for customers irrespective of their geographic location, unlike other products and services with a global reach that are typically priced as a function of local purchasing power. Global products and services tend to cost what the local market can bear. It is unclear why payments for open access publishing services do not.

Admittedly, some researchers facing APC payments may qualify for waivers, but there is no globally agreed way for publishers to handle waivers. Moreover, they are perceived as patronizing and neocolonial. They are an in-or-out mechanism unilaterally controlled by the publishers, and do not afford any agency to recipients. Summing up, the current system for meeting the costs of academic publishing is both regionally and globally inequitable.

Globally fair payment for academic publishing

cOAlition S funders are committed to fair and transparent open access fees and encourage the diversity of open access business models (Principle 5 of Plan S). There is a need to transition towards a globally agreed system of payment for academic publishing services that is fair, equitable, and transparent.

It should be fair in guaranteeing payment of a reasonable price for clearly defined services. It should be equitable by taking into account the ratio of readers and authors as well as their local purchasing power for any contributing country or institution. It should be transparent in making clear the criteria for inclusion in a specific pricing tier.

The objective of the study for tender is to explore the current pricing and distribution of costs of academic publishing and explore alternative pricing models that are fair and transparent and that enable global participation and equitable cost distribution. Special consideration should be given to the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) model, which Osman & Rooryck (2022) suggested as a potential model for devising an equitable pricing model for academic publishing.

Responding to this call

An outline of the key tasks, deliverables, and available budget, along with an application template is available here. Those who wish to apply for this consultancy should send the completed template (Annex A) to npappleroy@esf.org no later than Monday, 13th March 2023, at 09.00 GMT.

Digital Science appoints its first VP of Research Integrity

Digital Science, a technology company serving stakeholders across the research ecosystem, has today announced the appointment of Dr Leslie McIntosh as its first Vice President, Research Integrity.

In this role Dr McIntosh will lead Digital Science’s commitment to increasing public confidence in research at a pivotal time for issues of trust and integrity. Dr McIntosh will strengthen the company’s focus on providing solutions to researchers, institutions, governments, funding agencies, publishers and industry, to enhance responsible and ethical practices in research.

Dr McIntosh moves from her role as CEO of Ripeta to the VP, Research Integrity role.

Ripeta, part of Digital Science, is a business dedicated to supporting and building trust in science. Since co-founding Ripeta five years ago, Dr McIntosh and her team have led the development of AI technologies that identify key research ‘trust markers’ in academic manuscripts and publications. Dimensions users will be able to benefit from these technologies via a new module, Dimensions Research Integrity, which will be released soon..

In her time with Ripeta, Dr McIntosh has built a reputation for championing research integrity issues. She led an investigation uncovering a major publishing scam that included a Hong Kong-based researcher, and she has raised concerns about the peer review process and undisclosed conflicts of interest in an anti-abortion paper that has been retracted by the publisher. Dr McIntosh has also led the development of a company-wide research integrity strategy for Digital Science.

Dr McIntosh said: “I firmly believe that issues around research integrity will be the dominant theme in scholarly communications over the next decade. Just look at recent challenges around ChatGPT, papermills, and fake science – these issues will only get thornier and more complex, so research institutions, publishers and many others will need to dedicate more resources to this area.

“Taking the idea of making research better from infancy to integration is thrilling. Past and present, our team has built novel and faster ways to attain trust in research. I am happy to have grown a diverse group that will continue to develop the technical pieces needed to assess trust markers. Now I can focus on research integrity at a broader level, helping to move insight into action.”

See this interview with Digital Science’s new VP, Research Integrity, Dr Leslie McIntosh: https://youtu.be/JmxsCpVzq7A

Digital Science CEO Daniel Hook said he sees both challenges and opportunities ahead for the global research community as new technologies change the scholarly communication: “Research integrity is at the centre of being a researcher – it is a bar that we should seek to set as high as possible. It is only through the performance of high-integrity research that we are able to ‘stand on the shoulders of giants’.

“In a time of flux in the technologies associated with scholarly communication, it has never been so important to invest in research integrity at all levels of the research system. As an infrastructure provider, we must do our part to ensure that proper thought has been put into the tools and capabilities that we provide to the sector. As a result, I am pleased and proud to announce Dr Leslie McIntosh as the first Vice President, Research Integrity at Digital Science.

“Leslie has enormous experience in this field and I regard her as one of the world’s foremost experts on research integrity. Her company, Ripeta, has redefined the kinds of tools that we have available to gain insight into research integrity and is responsible for creating the concept of ‘trust markers’. Dimensions Research Integrity wouldn’t exist without their hard work.”

Tokyo Institute of Technology Partners With Taylor & Francis in New Read and Publish Agreement

Corresponding Authors Based at Tokyo Tech Supported to Choose Open Access

Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and Taylor & Francis have announced a new three-year transformative partnership to increase the publication of open access (OA) articles by researchers at the leading science and technology institution.

Under the agreement, articles with a corresponding author based at Tokyo Tech will receive funding support to publish OA in Taylor & Francis and Routledge Open Select (hybrid) journals.

Tokyo Tech is the first member of the Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE) to opt in to a new ‘read & publish’ deal negotiated by the consortium. The agreement also ensures Tokyo Tech users can continue to read all the Taylor & Francis journals the library subscribed to in 2022.

Akira Yamada, Library Director of Tokyo Tech said, “We are really pleased to have reached a new read & publish agreement with the world leading publisher, Taylor & Francis, for the publication of open access articles. Tokyo Tech has been actively pursuing transformative agreements to enhance our visibility, and we are very much looking forward to this agreement strengthening our university’s research activities, especially those of our young researchers.”

Ian Jones, VP and APAC Commercial Lead at Taylor & Francis, added, “We’re thrilled that our first read & publish agreement with an institution in Asia Pacific is with Tokyo Tech. The university is well known for its cutting-edge research, and we look forward to seeing the impact of their work further increase through this OA agreement.”

Administrators at the Tokyo Tech library will have access to the Taylor & Francis Research Dashboard where they can monitor publications by researchers at the institution and approve articles for OA publication under the agreement.

Bone & Joint launches new customer-focussed platform built by 67 Bricks

Bone & Joint have launched a new content platform that brings together all of their customer-facing products; their journals (The Bone & Joint Journal, Bone & Joint 360, Bone & Joint Open, Bone & Joint Research and Orthopaedic Proceedings) and digital services (OrthoMedia and OrthoSearch), whilst also providing the flexibility to develop new products in the future.

The platform has been built by technology consultancy 67 Bricks, as part of an ongoing partnership between the two companies. The teams worked closely together to create a digital space that holds user needs at its core, providing a clear, easy-to-use and intuitive platform. The launch marks a significant milestone in Bone & Joint’s mission to be the go-to resource for orthopaedic surgeons throughout their careers. 

Will Bailey, Head of Partnerships at 67 Bricks said; ‘We are so proud to have been part of this brave new step into an innovative and forward-looking digital future for Bone & Joint. They have great ideas to improve how they serve their community and we are excited to help them to deliver on them’. 

Emma Vodden, Director of Publishing at Bone & Joint said; ‘We are delighted to partner with 67 Bricks on this pivotal platform build which sees us move to an innovative site that allows us to bring together our orthopaedic portfolio in a way not possible before. This is a long-term strategic partnership which will help us deliver our valuable content to our community in an ever-evolving way to keep pace with technological developments and user expectations’. 

67 Bricks joins the SDG Publishers Compact

Technology consultancy 67 Bricks is the latest signatory to the SDG Publishers Compact, joining an impressive roster of the leading players within the publishing industry.  As a member, 67 Bricks will be committing to supporting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) both by working with clients to ensure best practices and scrutinising their own processes. 

Launched in collaboration with the International Publishers Association, the Compact aims to accelerate progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Signatories aspire to develop sustainable practices and act as champions of the SDGs during the Decade of Action (2020-2030), publishing books and journals that will help inform, develop, and inspire action in that direction.

Jennifer Schivas, MD 67 Bricks, said; “67 Bricks sees technology strategy as a key part of achieving the SDGs, and we are firmly committed to working with clients and industry colleagues to support the achievement of these goals. We are already working towards becoming carbon negative as a company, and are excited to make even more of an impact in this area.”

Open Publishing agreement signed between the Microbiology Society and the Big Ten Academic Alliance Consortium

The Microbiology Society and the Big Ten Academic Alliance are pleased to announce a three year open publishing agreement from 2023.

The Publish and Read model will allow affiliated researchers at 15 universities to publish an unlimited number of Open Access (OA) articles in hybrid and fully OA titles, as well as having full read access to the Society’s journals portfolio. This agreement has been made possible by Accucoms.

“The libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance are close partners with the researchers, faculty, and authors of our universities to advance open, more equitable scholarship,” said Maurice York, Director of Library Initiatives for the Big Ten Academic Alliance. “Open Publishing agreements such as this are a key part of our strategy for moving toward that ideal. We’re very excited to reach this agreement and add the Microbiology Society journals to our Open portfolio.”

Peter Cotgreave, Chief Executive of the Microbiology Society said: “We are very pleased to announce this agreement with the Big Ten Academic Alliance in the United States – it demonstrates the reach of the Society’s model for sustainable Open Access and its relevance internationally to academic institutions, facilitating Open Access for more researchers across the globe.”

“Accucoms are thrilled to have brokered an agreement between BTAA and Microbiology Society leading the charge towards Open Access. This Publish & Read agreement not only gives institutions, but also authors maximum value, by providing unlimited submissions and removing transactional barriers.” Kimberly Blizzard, Commercial Manager – North America, Accucoms.

The number of international institutions opting into Publish and Read agreements with the Microbiology Society is set to double year-on-year since its launch in 2020.

Affiliated authors with Publish and Read Institutions are entitled to:

  • Unlimited OA publishing: any article published in Society journals where the corresponding author is from a Publish and Read institution will be OA by default.
  • Unlimited usage: any user associated with a Publish and Read institution can access the entire archive of Society content, back to 1947, for reading and for text and data mining.

Authors can check if their institution is eligible on the Microbiology Society journals website.

Publish and Read is available across the Society’s six journals, including hybrid titles Journal of General Virology,Journal of Medical Microbiology, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, and fully OA titles Access Microbiology, Microbial Genomics and Microbiology.

Perspectives on Medical Education transfers publishers to ]u[ Ubiquity Press

International journal Perspectives on Medical Education (PME) has moved publisher, transferring from large, traditional publisher Springer Nature to the fully open access and open-source publisher ]u[ Ubiquity Press. 

Since its initial launch 40 years ago, PME has sought to adapt itself to its ever-changing environment, including switching from Dutch-language to English and becoming open access in 2012. It has fast become a top journal in its field, receiving 941 submissions in 2021 alone, with a 2022 impact factor of 4.113 and a five year impact factor of 4.086. 

Dr. Erik Driessen and Lauren Maggio, editor-in-chief and deputy editor-in-chief of PME, explain : “our editorial team decided in 2022 that moving the journal to a fully open access publisher was necessary in order to ensure the journal remained aligned with our core beliefs and values, including transparency and openness. Moving to ]u[ Ubiquity Press has not only ensured this, but has allowed PME to make space for more publications.”

Both Erik and Lauren further mention how they have been impressed with the ]u[ Ubiquity team’s expertise, responsiveness and agility, which ensured a smooth transfer process from Springer and Editorial Manager, to ]u[ Ubiquity Press and its open source OJS submission system, along with all the migration of the journal’s back-content. They are excited about PME’s future at ]u[ Ubiquity Press, and about a future that is more closely aligned with the journal’s values. 

Brian Hole, CEO at ]u[ Ubiquity, says: “]u[ Ubiquity Press is very pleased to partner with the Netherlands Association of Medical Education (NVMO), the society behind the journal, in publishing Perspectives on Medical Education. Like the NVMO, we strongly believe that research in this field is of great importance to both medicine and society, and its benefits are greatly magnified through open access. Our goal is to enable researchers to make their work open easily and affordably, and to help them achieve the widest possible audience and impact. ]u[ Ubiquity has now supported over 800 journals, from all disciplines, to become successfully established in open access. We look forward to helping PME grow and achieve even more success and impact as a leading OA journal in its field.”

EFSA selects SciencePOD to create plain language summaries

SciencePOD is delighted to announce that it has won a tender to supply the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) with plain language summaries (PLS) of EFSA scientific assessments.

“We look forward to working with EFSA in communicating scientific expertise in food-related matters to wider audiences through plain language summaries” – Sabine Louët SciencePODCEO

SciencePOD will support EFSA in efforts to make scientific knowledge and information more accessible. The PLS will include topics such as food and feed safety, the treatment of animals, food sources, and the use or inclusion of specific substances in food and food packaging—topics of interest and relevance to European society.

Thanks to our unique global community of talented science and medical writers, SciencePOD is well positioned to deliver PLS to EFSA. Our well-established processes for quality control will ensure that the PLS are scientifically accurate while written in a language that is understandable to non-experts.

We welcome the opportunity to collaborate with EFSA’s scientific teams in ensuring that the most up-to-date scientific evidence is made available to inform the decisions of European policy makers, research and corporate organisations, and members of the public, with an interest in food-related matters.

The MIT Press announces new initiative to flip existing subscription-based journals to a diamond open access publishing model

shift+OPEN will catalyze needed change in journals publishing and increase the reach of academic scholarship

In keeping with its mission and longstanding commitment to increase access to scholarship, the MIT Press is pleased to announce shift+OPEN. This new initiative is designed to flip existing subscription-based journals to a diamond open access publishing model. Shift+OPEN is generously supported by the Arcadia Fund.

The MIT Press welcomes submissions for English-language journals in any field and from any part of the world. Intended for existing titles, shift+OPEN will cover the expenses of transitioning a journal to open access model for a three-year term, provide the Press’s full suite of publishing services, and support the development of a sustainable funding model for the future. The deadline for applications is March 31, 2023. 

“Shift+OPEN seeks to catalyze needed change in journals publishing, introduce authors to new readerships, and increase the reach of vital scholarship that has previously been locked behind paywalls,” says Nick Lindsay, director of journals and open access at the MIT Press. “Thanks to the generous support of the Arcadia Fund, we are delighted to offer this opportunity to journals world-wide.”

The MIT Press has a long history of being at the leading edge of open access journal publishing. From opening access to Computational Linguistics in 2010 to publishing overlay journal Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 in 2020, the Press has embraced the need to broaden the dissemination of its journals while developing new models that work for everyone, including authors, editors, societies, and universities. 

In conjunction with the initiative, the MIT Press will host a webinar entitled Going Open Access: An editorial perspective on Monday, March 6 at 12:00 pm est.  Join Vincent Larivière, incoming editor-in-chief ofQuantitative Science Studies, Ludo Waltman, outgoing editor-in-chief of Quantitative Science Studies, and Nick Lindsay to explore the transition of the traditionally published Journal of Informetrics to an open access model.Free and open to the public. Register here. 

For further information on shift+OPEN and to submit an application, please visit mitpress.mit.edu/shiftopen/.

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