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LBF Announces Research & Scholarly Publishing Forum Line-up

The London Book Fair (LBF) has today announced the return a event to the LBF calendar: the Research and Scholarly Publishing Forum (20th April 2023).

Taking place on the last day of London Book Fair, the Research and Scholarly Publishing Forum will explore themes such as diversity and inclusion in STM publishing, national and international policies for libraries and Web3 technologies, and will be chaired by Rob Johnson, Managing Director of Research Consulting, who also curated the programme. Damian Pattinson, Executive Director of eLife Sciences Publications, will launch the conference, which will take place this year in the Olympia Theatre.

Speakers participating in the Research and Scholarly Publishing Forum include: Michiel Kolman, SVP Research Networks and Academic Ambassador at Elsevier; Dr Torsten Reimer, Dean of the University of Chicago Library; Julien Roche, Director of Libraries and Learning Centre at the University of Lille and President of LIBER; Isabel Thompson, Head of Product at LabDAO; Philipp Koellinger, Professor in Social Science Genetics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and co-founder of DeSci Labs.

Sessions at the conference will tackle key topics within academic publishing, including: how the widespread adoption of preprints is transforming science communication; shining a light on how diverse (and inclusive) are STM publishers and how they can support an inclusive research agenda; how national and international policies are reshaping the world of scholarly communication; new insights on Web3 technologies and their potential to change the way science is performed and shared.

Rob Johnson, Chair of The Research and Scholarly Publishing Forum Conference, said: “As the pace of transformation in scholarly communication continues to accelerate, the 2023 Research and Scholarly Publishing Forum will explore the forces reshaping our industry. Publishers, librarians and start-ups will share strategies for navigating the open access transition, responding to global policy developments, embracing diversity and inclusion, and adopting Web 3 technologies, giving you the insights you need to keep your organisation ahead of the curve.”

Gareth Rapley, Director of the London Book Fair, added: “We know how popular this conference is with LBF audiences, and we are delighted to see it return to the calendar for 2023. We look forward to welcoming delegates to the event, which will offer expert insights into academic publishing, a fundamental part of the publishing ecosystem.”

For more information visit: https://www.londonbookfair.co.uk/en-gb/whats-on/conferences.html

RESEARCH AND SCHOLARY PUBLISHING FORUM

Elsevier and CONsortium on Core Electronic Resources in Taiwan partner to support open access publishing for Taiwanese researchers

Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, and the CONsortium on Core Electronic Resources in Taiwan (CONCERT) – the negotiating body representing universities in Taiwan – have successfully reached an agreement which supports open access (OA) publishing for Taiwanese authors and continued reading access to Elsevier’s world-leading content on ScienceDirect.

The new agreement takes effect from January 2023 and is the first agreement in Taiwan to address CONCERT’s objective for a phased and sustainable transition to OA, alongside continued research access for researchers from CONCERT-affiliated institutions.

Dr. Bou-wen Lin, Director General of STPI, said: “CONCERT has considered the various possibilities and limitations of open access publishing to reach this migration agreement, which is diverse, equitable and inclusive. More importantly, it responds to Taiwan’s publishing and reading needs. In the meantime, the new agreement aims to encourage and support Taiwanese researchers in their participation of open research.”

Gemma Hersh, SVP of Global Academic & Government Sales, Elsevier, said: “We have worked closely with CONCERT and its member universities to understand their research and open access objectives, resulting in a framework that supports a broad set of reading and publishing needs. We are delighted to continue our longstanding partnership with Taiwanese institutions and will continue to support the priorities of the Taiwanese research community.”

As one of the fastest-growing open access publishers in the world, nearly all of Elsevier’s 2,800 journals enable open access publishing, including 600 fully open access journals. We now support over 2,000 institutions globally to publish open access through transformative agreements. In 2021 Elsevier published 119,000 gold or pay-to-publish open access articles, an increase of more than 46% over 2020.

For more on how Elsevier supports open access, please visit our website.

Wiley’s First Open Access Agreement in Hong Kong Promotes Research Accessibility

Wiley, one of the world’s largest publishers and a global leader in research and education, today announced a new open access agreement with Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) in Hong Kong, starting January 1, 2023.  

This agreement, which represents Wiley’s first in Hong Kong, allows eligible users of the three participating JULAC libraries (Chinese University of Hong Kong Library, Hong Kong Baptist University Library, and the University of Hong Kong Libraries) with access to Wiley’s journal portfolio and enables participating researchers to publish research open access in nearly 2,000 hybrid and gold open access journals, including those published by Hindawi. 

“Widespread access to peer-reviewed research is critical, and our agreement with JULAC promotes research accessibility while also showcasing the excellent work done by scholars in Hong Kong,” said Kathryn Sharples, Vice President, Open Research, Wiley.  

“As made clear in JULAC’s Position Statement on Open Scholarship, JULAC is committed to enabling open access (OA) to research publications. This agreement with Wiley is an example of the tangible support that libraries can provide to their institution’s researchers in making their work OA,” said Flora Ng, JULAC Chair and CIO / University Librarian, The University of Hong Kong. 

Wiley has strong momentum in delivering open access agreements globally, having signed partnerships with over 2,200 institutions spanning 23 countries. Most recently, Wiley established agreements with b-on in Portugal, HEAL-Link in Greece, and Tulane University Libraries in the United States.  

BMJ Impact Analytics launch | First research impact tool focused on health and social care

BMJ and Overton collaborate to advance the real-world impact of health and medical research

Today, leading healthcare knowledge provider BMJ, announces the launch of a new research impact tool, BMJ Impact Analytics, developed in collaboration with pioneering start-up Overton. BMJ Impact Analytics is the only impact tool focused on health and social care. 

BMJ Impact Analytics will help funders, academic institutions, and corporate organisations discover where their research has been cited in clinical guidance and health policies worldwide. It uniquely shows direct links to patient outcomes (decision support tools) and provides citations in context. 

BMJ Impact Analytics combines Overton’s data knowledge with BMJ’s health expertise in one powerful tool that covers the breadth of the best available medical sources. It contains up to 50% more data on health related outputs than similar products, to help users:

  • identify the real-world impact of their medical research
  • make funding decisions confidently
  • gain insights into how their research has influenced medical practice
  • target their research funding to influence health outcomes

Dr Allison Lang, Publishing Director at BMJ said: “Medical and health research impact is about improving the lives of patients and the public. It matters deeply to funders, institutions and researchers but is time consuming and difficult to track. We can confidently say that we have the right tools to help show the real-world impact of medical and health research.” 

Euan Adie, Founder and Director of Overton, added: ”BMJ Impact Analytics was developed in partnership with medical departments and funders, combining the data they need with an interface that makes it easy to find and use. We’re delighted to be collaborating with BMJ and taking this important next step towards supporting a healthy, responsible impact culture in research.” 

Funders, institutions and organisations who would like to learn more should contact Michelle Phillips, Open Research Product Manager, at mphillips@bmj.com or impactanalytics@bmj.com  

BMJ Impact Analytics: https://bit.ly/BMJ_Impact_Analytics

ConTech Forum 2023 returns as a hybrid event on 11th July

To be held in London and online, the ConTech Forum is designed to continue the conversations started at ConTech 2022, review what has happened since and look to what will happen in the future.

Just a few short weeks ago ConTech 2022 took place and received fantastic feedback on tackling the content world’s big challenges head on! ConTech Forum 2023 continues that narrative and once again there’s a phenomenal speaker line up with many returning to continue their stories. The event is full of inspirational content about the very latest challenges, technologies and transformation stories. There’s also a world class audience including CEOs, CDOs, CTOs, heads of digital, user experience, data and analytics, senior publishers and product managers as well as publishing and content technologists, info and knowledge managers and researchers.

Our delegates and speakers will participate in highly interactive presentations and discussions making this a must attend event for those looking to explore how data technologies are transforming their businesses. Both new and returning delegates will gain important knowledge and an improved understanding of the challenges and opportunities of unprecedented technological advancements.   

The ConTech Forum 2023 will be a hybrid event so places are available both online and to attend in person at a central London venue.

All sessions will be recorded and available exclusively to delegates for six months.

Register today to join us and discover your own reasons for being part of this fast-moving event series

Book now at https://www.contech.live/contechforum

There are so many ways to become part of the ConTech community. Visit our website tofind out more about all of our events https://www.contechlive.com/

OASPA Announces Launch of Publication Checklist for Publishers on Implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science

We are delighted to announce the publication by UNESCO of the Checklist for open access publishers on implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. This is a jointly developed final document by OASPA and UNESCO. The Guidelines form part of the UNESCO Open Science Toolkit. This is a valuable and practical new resource for OA publishers.

The Guidelines were initiated by Iryna Kuchma (EIFL) and Claire Redhead (OASPA) who also spearheaded and guided this work to completion. During 2022, OASPA held a webinar to announce the development of the guidelines. The webinar focused on the practical actions open access editors and publishers could take to implement the UNESCO recommendation. Practical guidelines were discussed and co-developed together during and after the webinar. 

We would like to thank UNESCO as well as all of those who took part in the webinar and particularly the many in the community who input directly into the working document. We now have a highly practical and clear set of guidelines for publishers to refer to.

It was great to see the community interest in the draft guidelines when we released them initially and it provided useful input that helped us to finalise them, says Claire Redhead, Executive Director of OASPA. 

Having the support of UNESCO has been fantastic, both in our initial conversation with open access publishers and now to host the guidelines as part of their toolkit. It’s really exciting to see these guidelines released and I hope they benefit open access publishers on their journey to implementing the recommendations in their publishing practices. Huge thanks to EIFL’s Iryna Kuchma for working with OASPA on these and making the guidelines for open access publishers a really valuable and globally relevant resource.

We would like to thank everyone who contributed to the Checklist, says Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Programme Manager at EIFL

When 193 UNESCO Member States adopted the first international standard-setting instrument on Open Science we started brainstorming on the practical implementation steps for publishers. It was truly a community effort and our work on the checklist provided a useful structure and discussion points for our workshops with publishers in Africa and Europe.

PLOS Announces New Publishing Agreement with German Consortium

The Public Library of Science (PLOS) is pleased to announce a consortium agreement with Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) that allows member institutions to participate in PLOS’ three innovative publishing models. This two-year agreement provides researchers affiliated with consortium members with unlimited publishing privileges in PLOS journals without them having to cover fees themselves. The TIB-led consortium has more than 40 members[1].

 “This is the first time that TIB has negotiated a consortial contract with a Gold OA publisher that is open to institutions across Germany. There was a clear need for an agreement that allows universities, universities of applied sciences and research institutions to centrally cover publication fees in PLOS journals for their researchers, and as consortial leader it is our mission to meet those needs. This partnership will play a key role in alleviating barriers for researchers when publishing their work Open Access, such as eliminating author-facing article processing charges (APCs) and including the entire PLOS portfolio under the deal,” said Dr. Irina Sens, deputy director of TIB.

All PLOS journals are underpinned by institutional business models that move beyond APCs to ensure more equitable and regionally appropriate ways to support Open Access publishing. PLOS’ institutional models are Community Action Publishing (CAP)[2], Flat Fees [3], and the Global Equity model[4].

“This agreement represents a new model for institutions to collaborate and invest equitably in our common interests in advancing Open Science,” said Sara Rouhi, Director of Strategic Partnerships for PLOS.  “TIB shares our commitment to building business models that will move researchers and journals toward a more equitable and barrier free form of publishing.” The members of the TIB-led consortium join a growing list of institutions including the Big Ten Academic Alliance, the University of California system, CRL and NERL, Jisc (including University College London, Imperial College London, University of Manchester) and the Canadian Research Knowledge Networkamong others to support their researchers through publishing deals with PLOS.

Ukrainian wins inaugural APE Award for Innovation in Scholarly Communication

Digital Science is pleased to announce that Ukrainian Vsevolod Solovyov has won the inaugural APE Award for Innovation in Scholarly Communication at the 18th Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) Conference in Berlin, Germany.

The award – supported by Digital Science, a technology company serving stakeholders across the research ecosystem – was given to Vsevolod Solovyov for his work on Prophy.Science. Prophy.Science is an online platform for recommending reviewers used by the European Research Council in their grant reviewing process, which is therefore critical to research funding across Europe.

The APE Award for Innovation in Scholarly Communication was created to celebrate the 18th birthday of the APE Conference in 2023, and the award will accompany the conference for the years to come. Supported by Digital Science, it is presented to an individual who has brought innovation in scholarly communication to the community, through infrastructure, technology, business models, output on the topic, theory, or practice. Nominees can be part of organisations, or they can be independent.

The APE conference is known for bringing stakeholders together from across scholarly publishing to share ideas and understand progress in the sector. In order to help recognize those who help push the boundaries in this space, Digital Science is proud to have supported the introduction of the APE Award for Innovation in Scholarly Communication.

Based in Kiev, Ukraine, Mr Solovyov has continued to work on his innovations as Chief Technology Officer for Prophy.Science amid Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Speaking last night at the awards ceremony in Berlin via live video link from Kiev, Mr Solovyov said: “I’d like to thank APE and Digital Science for this award. It has been very difficult sometimes to work following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and I would like to use the prize money to improve the backup generator we have, as some days we can be three days without power.

“Thanks again, and I hope that we can win the war and join you next year in Berlin.”

In addition to the winner, two other people were highly commended: Joshua Nicholson for his work at sciteand Vivienne Bachelet for her work on the multilingual Medwave platform. All three have a long-term history of innovation in the scholarly communications community.

Digital Science CEO Daniel Hook, who presented the award, said: “It was an honour to work with our esteemed judging panel, each a world-class expert in innovation for the STM sector, to review this year’s entrants for this new award.

“The judges were specifically looking for individuals who have either contributed at scale or over a significant period by fostering innovative practices, or creating innovative technologies. It is a pleasure to be able to work with APE to create this award, to receive nominations for so many worthy entrants, and to be able to recognise Vsevolod, Joshua and Vivienne’s amazing contributions.”

Dr Hook said Mr Solovyov had made a significant impact at Prophy, and its work had come to the attention of the European Commission. “We have heard a lot in the last two days (at the conference) about how challenging the review process is; finding reviewers is more and more challenging all the time. This is really a long-term commitment that Vsevolod had made and also something that has a deep impact around this space of finding reviewers.”

As the winner, Mr Solovyov will receive prize money of €1,000. 

Receiving the award on his colleague’s behalf was Oleg Ruchayskiy, Co-founder of Prophy.Science and Associate Professor with the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. He said: “The noble purpose of peer review is to ensure every paper has been read at least once by at least one peer, and that is as important as quality control. With this feeling that scientific knowledge management is as important as doing science itself, we thought about making Prophy in 2015 and approached Vsevolod to become our CTO.

“Our knowledge base today is twice as big as Scopus and about the size of Web of Science, and we are creating and maintaining on a startup budget and analysing on a startup budget. And when I look inside this database, I am in awe of how well it is made, how flawless it is. And we started from a single client and have grown a hundredfold.

“It was designed and created by Vsevolod, and from day one he was taking care, bringing his professional software development skills, his knowledge of artificial intelligence, his constant interest in new methods, and at the same time his conservativeness to say, ‘OK, this is not ready yet’. This combination of being open-minded and being conservative and keeping the middle ground is amazing.”

The APE Award for Innovation in Scholarly Communication will be presented again at the 19th APE Conference, which will also be held in Berlin on 9-10 January, 2024. 

ConTech.Live 2023 dates for your diary

ConTech.Live is focused on how a new generation of technology is impacting the world of content.  We are looking forward to 2023 with several events in this space and continuing to grow this fantastic community. ConTech 2023 will take place once more in London and online and will build on the work from last year. Here’s a comment from an attendee: “Just a quick note to say thank you to the team at ConTech for such a great event this week. I really enjoyed meeting some fantastically interesting people and I was also impressed at the online offer as well as the in-person event itself.”

The ConTech community is made up of CEOs from leading publishers and digital first and innovative start-ups. Product pioneers, transformation specialists from publishing, the music industry and online consumer markets. Research heads, advisors, data scientists, investment specialists and many more. 2023 sees them better served than ever. Get these dates in your diary to go to some industry ‘must attend’ events: ConTech 2023 – 14th & 15th November, ConTech Pharma 2023 8th June, both hybrid events taking place in London and online. The ConTech Forum, our mid- year main community catch up returns in 2023 on 11th July and we are developing the Scholarly API series into a fully blown conference to take place in September – date to be confirmed.  We will also be running our well attended webinars along side our newly launched podcast!

There has never been a better time to get involved with ConTech.Live events. The information industry is under pressure. From unsustainable business models to an exponential increase in published output, to increased public mistrust and scrutiny.

Now is the time to take strategic risks and make bold changes to the publishing landscape to transform this vital industry for the future. Find out more next week as we kick off the year with Sami Benchekroun – Co-Founder and CEO Morressier presenting the first in a brand new series of webinars “Expanding the Research Lifecycle Through Digital Transformation and Cultural Disruption” Register to attend for free here taking place 19th January 4pm GMT

ConTech.Live is looking for partners, speakers, delegates, sponsors to help develop the community.

Find out more about all of these events and register to be kept up to date at https://www.contechlive.com/

Scholastica announces its second report on the ‘State of Journal Production and Access’ among independent academic publishers

Scholastica, a leading software solutions provider for academic journals, announced today the release of “The State of Journal Production and Access 2022” report. The report encompasses the results of Scholastica’s second global survey of individuals working with scholarly society, university, and research institution publishers that independently manage and produce academic journals about how they currently approach production and content access and what they plan to prioritize in the future.

The 2022 survey, which yielded 82 responses, spanned core production and access areas, including article production processes and formats, metadata tagging standards and priorities, and Open Access (OA) journal development approaches and funding models.

Key survey findings include:

  • When asked to rate their publishers’ primary production goals, most respondents chose “journal/article search engine optimization”
  • 95% of respondents said at least one of their publisher’s journals offered OA options
  • 80% of respondents said their organization utilizes fully-OA publishing models
  • When asked to rate their publishers’ primary funding/revenue priorities, most respondents chose “identifying viable funding model(s) for publishing one or more fully-OA journals”

The second “State of Journal Production and Access” survey ran between June and October 2022. The survey received responses from members of scholarly publishing organizations in 28 countries working in various roles, ranging from senior leaders to journal editors to technical staff. Most respondents worked with journals published by learned societies or university presses.

Scholastica’s goals for this survey are twofold: to help publishers benchmark their immediate and long-term production and access priorities against their peers, and to provide a snapshot of the evolution of academy-led publishing programs up to this point in these discrete but related aspects of publishing for all stakeholders, including publishers, editors, funders, and libraries. The survey report is available for direct download here.

Clarivate and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Release Annual Joint Report to Identify 165 Research Fronts

Clarivate Plc (NYSE: CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) today released Research Fronts 2022, their ninth annual collaborative report. The report identifies significant areas in the world of sciences and social sciences as to where the scientific community is focusing its attention, including several COVID-related fronts and areas mirrored by the research fields of Nobel Prize in recent years.

In the report, “Research Fronts” are defined when scientists undertake the fundamental scholarly act of citing one another’s work, reflecting a specific commonality in their research – sometimes experimental data, or a method, a concept or hypothesis. Research Fronts are discovered by tracking the world’s most significant scientific and scholarly literature and the patterns and groupings of how papers are cited – in particular, clusters of papers that are frequently cited together over a five-year period. A Research Front is then formed when such a group of highly cited papers attains a certain level of activity and coherence.

For the report, experts used the Clarivate Essential Science Indicators (ESI)™ database which is built on the foundation of the Web of Science™ index, to conduct co-citation analysis. The 2022 report starts with 12,610 Research Fronts in the ESI™ from 2016 to 2021 and aims to discover which Research Fronts were most active or developing most rapidly.

Research Fronts offer a unique vantage point from which to watch science unfold – not relying on the possibly subjective judgments of an indexer or cataloguer, but instead on the cognitive and social connections that scientists themselves forge when citing one another’s work. Analysis of the associated citing papers also provides a tool for unveiling the latest progress and the evolving direction of scientific fields.

This year’s report identified 165 Research Fronts, including 110 ‘hot’ and 55 ‘emerging’ fronts spanning in 11 broad areas. As with last year, more than one third of the Research Fronts identified this year are related to COVID-19, such as ‘side effects and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against variants’. Several Research Fronts well reflected the research fields of Nobel Prize recipients in the recent years, such as ‘the properties of GW190814’s secondary component with 2.6 solar mass’. Experts at CAS analyzed and interpreted all the Research Fronts to further highlight 32 key Research Fronts and one key Research Front group.

“It has truly been a privilege for us to work with the Chinese Academy of Sciences on this important report since 2014. Identification of these significant research specialties provides a distinct advantage for those who seek to monitor, support and advance the conduct of the research, often in the face of finite resources,” said Steen Lomholt-Thomsen, Chief Revenue Officer, Clarivate. “At Clarivate, our vision is to improve the way the world creates, protects and advances innovation. We look forward to continuing working in partnership with global research organizations to advance the world of sciences.”

Gao Hongjun, Vice President of CAS said: “The world is facing unprecedented changes and a new round of revolution in science and technology and transformation in industries. We need to strengthen collaboration to address to the key global issues. The Chinese Academy of Sciences will enhance its role as a national strategic science and technology force and high-level think tank, focus on strategic research, and better support China’s objectives in improving its science and technology levels continually.”

In conjunction with the Research Fronts 2022 report, Clarivate and CAS also published 2022 Research Fronts: Active Fields, Leading Countries to examine and compare national performance across the 165 Research Fronts. It reveals that the US remains the leading nation for research in 11 areas of sciences and social sciences. The gap between the US and China has been reduced. Other top 10 countries in terms of performance in these Research Fronts are UK, Germany, France, Italy, Australia, Spain, Canada, and Switzerland.

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

Dr Alison Mitchell joins Digital Science Executive Team

Digital Science, a technology company serving stakeholders across the research ecosystem, is pleased to announce that as of today Dr Alison Mitchell is joining the company in the newly established role of Chief of Staff.

Alison joins Digital Science from Springer Nature, where she was Chief Journals Officer. Alison has 25 years’ experience with Nature and the wider Springer Nature portfolio, and is also a published and respected scientist. Springer Nature is majority owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, which wholly owns Digital Science.

Digital Science is undergoing a period of rapid expansion to deliver its vision of a future where a trusted and collaborative research ecosystem drives progress for all. As Chief of Staff, Alison will be a member of Digital Science’s Executive Team and will work with this team and the wider Digital Science leadership team in support of the company’s expansion. She will lead strategic planning, business insights and thought leadership activities, and use her extensive experience to help guide Digital Science through its next phase of growth. 

Alison Mitchell said: “I’m thrilled to be joining Digital Science, a company whose mission aligns closely with my own interests and aims. I’m looking forward to the opportunity to use my previous experience and knowledge to support the Digital Science team with their ambitious plans, and to play a part in the future success of this exciting and rapidly growing company.”

Welcoming Alison to the team, CEO Daniel Hook said: “It is a pleasure to be able to welcome someone so widely respected in the STM community as Alison to our team. Alison joins us as we move into an exciting phase of growth and will play a crucial role in helping us ensure that Digital Science stays true to its values as we expand.“

Alison will join Daniel at this week’s Academic Publishing in Europe (APE 2023) conference in Berlin, where Daniel will chair a panel on Innovation, Technology and Infrastructure on Tuesday. Digital Science is also sponsoring the inaugural APE Award for Innovation in Scholarly Communication, which will be awarded at the end of the event on Wednesday afternoon. 

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