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ConTech 2022 confirms Silverchair as returning sponsors

“ConTech events offer insightful, innovative ideas around the technology driving our industry, and we’re delighted to support these discussions as returning sponsor.” Will Schweitzer, President Silverchair

The reinvention of publishing and information organisations has accelerated through the pandemic and the ConTech.Live mission to learn, share and explore the transformative impact of new technologies has never been more relevant. We have a growing list of fantastic sponsor organisations who understand this, and we are delighted that they will be reconnecting with our community of publishing, content and tech professionals in November.

Shifting from Power to Purpose in the Age of Data

ConTech 2022 offers enormous opportunity to get to grips with this shift and to face the challenges this industry faces daily. The sessions draw on the huge experience of our speakers which combined with the delegates in attendance is phenomenally powerful.

Take a look at what some of our other sponsors are saying:-

TNQ Technologies said “ConTech brings together discussions around publishing processes and workflows, technologies complementing as well as disrupting them, and the future of the end-to-end publishing value chain. This overlap excites us and aligns with our goals at TNQ. We are pleased to be sponsors for the second time.”

Dale Morgan, Associate Director of Digital Licensing, Wiley says “Working with ConTech.Live helps us stay at the forefront of conversations bringing together scientific content and technology innovators. We are pleased to sponsor ConTech.Live this year to support continued collaboration between content and technology organizations to drive research forward.”

Delegates are signing up daily to attend this event, they realise the importance it has to the industry so why not join them and see for yourself or continue that journey with the ConTech community. Early bird rates are available until 30th September here Find out more about all of our events  Contech.live

ALPSP Awards 2022 Winners Announced

ALPSP Award for Contribution to Scholarly Publishing

ALPSP Council was delighted to present this year’s award to Lorraine Estelle.

Lorraine has contributed significantly to the publishing and wider information communities over the last 20 years.  She began her career in publishing before moving to lead the Jisc Collections Team in 2002, becoming CEO when it became a standalone organisation in 2006. 

At Jisc she spearheaded the procurement of digital content for education and research in the UK. Her team created the Journals Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP) which libraries have found so valuable in evaluating their usage metrics. In 2015 Lorraine moved to COUNTER, bringing with her a deep understanding of the challenges faced by librarians and data analysts from her experience with setting up JUSP. Under her guidance, COUNTER developed into the organisation it is today, setting the standard for usage data which is relied upon by libraries and publishers across the globe.

Lorraine is a great leader and very well respected by her peers.  She has always generously volunteered time, contributing to events and publications but also serving as a Trustee for UKSG and Editor for the UKSG journal Insights. She has also made a point of mentoring others, helping them to identify their strengths and make their own contributions to our community.

Previous winners of this prestigious ALPSP award may be found at https://www.alpsp.org/CSP-Award

ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2022

Charlesworth Gateway and Gigabyte have been named the winners of the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2022.  The announcement was made by David Sommer, Chair of the Judging Panel.

Also shortlisted for 2022 were: 

·       Hum

·       ICLR Case Genie built by 67 Bricks

·       Impact Services from Emerald Publishing

·       Joint Commitment for action on inclusion and diversity in publishing, initiated and facilitated by Royal Society of Chemistry

·       Review Commons from EMBO and ASAPbio

Winner: Charlesworth Gateway

Gateway provides a solution to a pain-point shared by both publishers and Chinese authors – how to communicate quickly and effectively with each other throughout the submission workflow and beyond. Gateway improves author experience by facilitating speedy communication between editors and their authors/reviewers direct to their personal mobile devices, creating a 24/7 two-way conversation. Gateway negates the need for email (not widely used in China). It introduces efficiencies and cost saving into publisher workflows by reducing customer service time in dealing with author queries. Improving the quality of author interaction has increased the publisher’s WeChat followers, author returnees and brand build. https://cwbot.com.cn/

Winner: GigaByte

GigaByte provides a way to rapidly and cost-effectively share research, making the scientific process more inclusive and accessible to the broader community. It uses an exclusively XML-based publishing system that automates the production process and makes it effortless to change views, languages and embed interactive content. Enabling readers to directly interact with the underlying data and software allows immediate use of published research, improves reproducibility, and increases trust. Upon acceptance this system converts manuscripts to online – and PDF-ready articles within hours with minimal human intervention, dramatically reducing production time and cost to provide an equitable solution to publish open science. https://gigabytejournal.com/

David Sommer, Chair of the judging panel, and co-founder at Kudos commented:  

‘This year’s winners highlight how our industry is responding to the changing needs of authors and researchers together with the move towards making the scholarly record accessible to a broader audience worldwide.  Both Charlesworth Gateway and Gigabyte recognise and support the differing needs of their communities and are well deserved winners.’

Awards Judging Panel

David Sommer, Chief Product Officer & Co-founder, Kudos (Chair)
Andrew Barker, Director of Library Services and Learning Development, Lancaster University
Kivmars Bowling, Publications Director, SIAM
Iain Craig, Senior Director of Market & Publishing Analytics, Wiley
Richard Gedye, Scholarly and Professional Publishing Consultant
Athena Hoeppner, Discovery Services Librarian, University of Central Florida
Robert Iannello, Senior Product Manager, ARM Education Media
Haseeb Md Irfanullah, Independent Consultant, Environment Climate Change & Research System
Andrea Powell, Director of Outreach and Publisher Coordinator for the Research4Life initiative
Louise Russell, Director, Tutton Russell Consulting
David Smith, Head of Technology Strategy, The IET

PLOS and DataSeer expand partnership to better understand researchers’ Open Science practices

The Public Library of Science (PLOS) and DataSeer today announced an extended partnership that will provide new insights on how PLOS journals support Open Science practices. Earlier this year, PLOS and DataSeer collaborated on a project to quantify code sharing at PLOS Computational Biology. This expanded partnership will allow PLOS to assess three key “Open Science Indicators” – code sharing, preprint posting, and sharing of data in repositories – across all its journals and content. And more indicators will be developed next year.

“To increase adoption of Open Science and realize its benefits, we need to understand if researchers have adopted these practices, what the barriers to adoption are, and understand how these differ between communities,” said Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Director, Open Research Solutions, PLOS. “We are excited to work with DataSeer to better understand the researchers we serve, and help improve adoption of a range of Open Science practices.”

DataSeer will initially analyze more than 66,000 PLOS articles published from 2019 to present, and then repeatedly analyze newly-published content each month. They’ll provide PLOS with information on the use of data repositories, public sharing of code, and sharing of preprints. This is a first of its kind initiative by a publisher and PLOS will share the first set of results when the analysis is completed later this year.

Having already collaborated with DataSeer to adapt their natural language processing and artificial intelligence-driven technology to measure code sharing, DataSeer is now creating capability to analyze preprint sharing, to combine with DataSeer’s proven methodology for assessing research data sharing.

“We are excited to work with PLOS to explore how authors share different research objects with a published article,” said Tim Vines, Founder & Director, DataSeer. “This information is vital to both understanding researchers’ practices and to drive systemic change in research and scholarly publishing.”

PLOS and DataSeer will also look at relevant content outside of PLOS to better assess the same Open Science Indicators at other journals and make comparisons. As well as helping PLOS better serve research communities in their adoption of Open Science practices, PLOS aims to share the Open Science Indicator data with researchers, policy makers, institutions and other publishers to empower them to make informed decisions about their own policies and practices.

The introduction of new solutions for sharing protocols, code, research data, and preprints in the last two years is intended to support PLOS’ goal of making Open Sciences practices the norm.

IOP Publishing partners with ChronosHub to simplify OA publishing

IOP Publishing (IOPP) announces today a new collaboration with ChronosHub, a platform that streamlines the open access publishing workflow to unburden researchers. The initial phase of the collaboration includes a free-to-use IOPP branded Journal Finder, which enables authors to easily check if the IOPP journal they have chosen to publish their work in complies with their funder or institutional requirements. 

IOPP Journal Finder makes institutional, and consortia level open access (OA) agreements and funders’ OA policies more transparent for authors. The partnership is aligned with IOPP’s ambition to make universal access to research a reality whilst delivering optimal author experience and service excellence.  

To date, 91 journals, of which 85 offer an OA route to publication, can be filtered by subject area, license and embargo period. Authors can also see potential eligibility for OA funding under transformative agreements negotiated by their institution or consortium.  

Miriam Maus, director of publishing at IOPP, says: “We believe that the future of academic publishing is open. We’re working with ChronosHub to see how the Journal Finder can help us realise this vision by enhancing transparency around OA publishing whilst improving the discoverability and impact of research published with us.”   

Christian Grubak, founder and CEO at ChronosHub, says: “It is great to see our shared mission come to life promoting open science and maximise automation to let researchers focus their time on research. Journal Finder will support all authors with the clear guidance they’ve been looking for to publish in compliance with their funders’ OA policies, and institutional agreements.”  

Throughout the collaboration, IOP Publishing and ChronosHub will monitor usage and collect feedback from the community to further optimise the author experience.  

Publisher collaboration to showcase research about Artificial Intelligence

Kudos, the platform for showcasing research, has today announced the launch of a new Showcase and associated outreach campaign to help the public, media, industry, policy makers, educators, and others understand the current and future role and capabilities of Artificial Intelligence. Kudos has set up the Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Cooperative with Impact Science, a part of Cactus Communications (CACTUS). Sponsors announced today include the Association for Computing Machinery, AIP Publishing, ASTM International and IOP Publishing. 

Sponsors are selecting their most relevant, recent or significant AI content to be summarized by Impact Science’s professional science writers, and showcased and promoted by the communication experts at Kudos. Stories already live in the platform cover topics ranging from “smart industry”, which uses machine learning to streamline operations, to how neural networks are reducing the use of fossil fuels.

“From chatbots to self-driving vehicles, we are increasingly aware of AI in everyday life. But the more widespread it becomes, the more questions people have about how it works,  how it is being applied,  and whether it can be trusted,” says Charlie Rapple, co-founder of Kudos. “Many of these questions are already being answered by research in the field. The scholarly communications sector has a role to play in helping broader audiences find and understand credible information about this most powerful and pervasive of technologies.”

“The Knowledge Cooperative model provides publishers with a way to collaborate in tackling the issues of our time,” adds Nikesh Gosalia, Senior Vice President – Global Academic & Publisher Relations at CACTUS. “Working together achieves greater visibility and impact; readers benefit from professionally written research summaries that draw out the real-world applications and implications of science.”

“As the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, ACM is committed to publishing the highest-quality research in key areas such as AI and to amplifying the voice of computing professionals,” says Scott Delman, Director of Publications at ACM. “An initiative such as this enables us to do both: taking an area of great research and general interest to help more people understand the positive impact that computing can have and the many ways that it enhances our lives.”

“We’ve participated in previous Kudos and Impact Science Knowledge Cooperatives, and we’re excited to be using this new Showcase to help broaden readership of our AI content,” says Penelope Lewis, Chief Publishing Officer from AIP Publishing. “AIPP is by its nature a collaborative organization, and the knowledge cooperative model is a great extension of our belief that communities with a common goal have much to gain from working together.”

“ASTM International’s more than 33,000 global members develop standards that are used by many industries throughout the world. It is important for ASTM to acknowledge the increasing importance of AI on the standards, journal papers, and books our members create and support,” says Kathy Dernoga, Director, Books and Journals, ASTM International.

“AI might be the hot topic, but being widely talked about doesn’t mean that It’s fully understood. This can lead to misconceptions rather than feeling excited about all the good things that AI could enable,” says Tim Smith, Head of Portfolio Development at IOP Publishing. “There are so many examples of the positive effects of AI – from reducing energy consumption by being much more efficient at computer modelling, to accelerating research breakthroughs by guiding more efficient use of our ‘human intelligence’. It’s important to share these benefits in a way everyone can understand, and this plain language initiative from Kudos and Impact Science is the perfect way for us to do that.”

To find out more about promoting your content or brand through the Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Cooperative, please visit the website or contact Colin Caveney.

New Language Services Collaboration Between Radcliffe Group and Enago

Enago is pleased to announce a brand new collaboration with the medical publisher, Radcliffe Group. The service will support authors preparing manuscripts for peer review. Radcliffe Group is a specialist medical publisher of journals as well as producer of live broadcasts, video and podcasts.

Leiah Norcott, Publishing & Editorial Director at Radcliffe Group commented on the announcement, “This collaboration with Enago will help our authors to prepare submissions to Radcliffe journals from the perspective of language and presentation. Authors can also use Enago’s Trinka AI Language Check to see how much work is still required before the manuscript is ready to be submitted. Then they can use Enago’s team of expert medical editors to make all the necessary changes. We’re delighted to be able to enable this service for our authors.”

“It’s great to be working with Radcliffe Group,” said Tony O’Rourke, vice president, for partnerships at Enago, “and help their authors overcome any language barriers in article submissions to peer-reviewed journals. The combination of Enago’s AI-based editing tools and subject expert editors will help authors to present and communicate their research in the best possible way. Authors can also send their papers to Enago for translation”.

ResearchGate and EDP Sciences announce content partnership

Berlin (Germany) September 13, 2022 – ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and EDP Sciences, an international academic publisher specializing in scientific, technical, and medical disciplines, today announced a content syndication partnership that will see the addition of content from over 30 open access (OA) journals to ResearchGate.

The agreement will be piloted for a limited duration and involves the syndication of content from EDP Sciences’s open access journals from a range of disciplines, including the Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, Acta Acustica, and all six Web of Conferences proceedings journals. 

Authors of the content will see their articles added automatically to their publication pages on ResearchGate, giving them access to statistics showing the impact of their work, and enabling them to connect with their readers. As well as simplifying the process of uploading work for authors, this partnership helps make sure that the Version of Record is always available.

In time, the overall aim of EDP Sciences is to become a full open access publisher and to transition its entire portfolio of journals into full open access journals. Therefore, any initiatives which facilitate the discovery of new research and make science more open and more accessible are well worth pursuing. In doing this, EDP Sciences recognizes changing research habits and shows it is prepared to support researchers wherever they choose to spend their time and conduct their research.

Agnès Henri, Managing Director, EDP Sciences: “We continuously strive to maximize the reach and impact of our publications and to better fulfill the publishing mandate entrusted to us by society partners. We are confident this partnership with ResearchGate will help us to engage current and future authors and facilitate better connections within our research communities.”

Ijad Madisch, CEO and co-founder of ResearchGate: “Interdisciplinary research is vital to scientific progress. At ResearchGate, we focus on connecting scientists from diverse disciplines so that they can drive this very necessary progress. EDP Sciences has been making research accessible for over a hundred years, and we’re delighted to be working with them to make research from many different fields available on ResearchGate.”

IEEE and CRUI Sign Three-Year Transformative Agreement to AccelerateOpen Access Publishing in Italy

IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, announced today that it has reached an unlimited read and publish open access agreement with the Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università Italiane (CRUI), the association of state and non-state Italian universities, to support authors who choose to publish open access.

Under this new three-year agreement, all researchers from the participating 54 Italian institutions are now able to publish open access articles in approximately 200 leading journals and magazines published by IEEE, making them instantly available and free to read by the public and helping support CRUI’s mission to make their authors’ publications open to the world. Under the terms of the agreement, the costs of both accessing subscription content and the article processing charges (APCs) required to publish open access are covered by the license fees paid by consortium members, making the process easier and more convenient for authors.

Participating members of the CRUI will have:

  • Open access publishing rights in all of IEEE’s hybrid journals and fully open access journals, making articles instantly available and free to read by the general public
  • Publication of all open access IEEE journal articles with a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license unless otherwise requested by the author
  • Read access rights to peer-reviewed journals, access to approximately 200,000 new conference papers added each year, as well as IEEE standards (totaling more than five million articles overall, including over 250,000 new articles added each year)

“In recent years, the Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università Italiane has signed various agreements fostering open access publication by affiliated members. Nevertheless, what makes the collaboration with IEEE significant is the possibility for authors to publish both in hybrid and 
gold journals at no additional cost and in an unlimited number. This is an extraordinary opportunity for the 54 Italian universities and research institutions reached by this contract, which also grants access to the IEL database,” says Ferruccio Resta, President of the CRUI. “In recent years, IEEE journals have been particularly appreciated by local scholars, with more than 1,300 articles published in 2021 by the agreeing institutions. Expectations are high, and the CRUI is extremely happy to announce this cooperation that contributes to boost the competitiveness of the Italian educational and research system.”

“IEEE is very pleased to have reached this agreement with the research community at the CRUI, which will provide Italian scholars with a wide array of open access publishing options across our highly cited portfolio of journals,” said Karen Hawkins, Chief Marketing Officer at IEEE. “This agreement reinforces IEEE’s commitment to expanding our open science offerings and allows IEEE to share the work of leading researchers with more of the global research community to further scientific and engineering progress.”

To learn more about the IEEE open access options for authors and institutions or to view a list of over 300 institutions that have an open access agreement with IEEE, please visitopen.ieee.org.

ConTech 2022 Conference Programme announced

Shifting from Power to Purpose in the Age of Data

The two-day programme is full of insightful sessions delivered by 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.

The sessions themselves will look at Culture, Product, Content and Data, and the ‘from’ to ‘too’ journey that they all take. What are we saying to our delegates?  That it is time to ask questions, whether the answer is what is expected or not, whether it is thought to be ignorant or not.  ConTech 2022 will create a platform for all those discussions and insights to take place, not just with the speakers you hear from but also with the delegates that attend the conference. 

ConTech 2022 is sharply focused on this intersection of content, technology and chaos and will deliver an exceptional conference with thought leadership, practical tools, case studies and stories of successful transformation.  There has been no better time, as the world starts to shift further to what may be the new normal, to listen, digest and act.

Find out more about the speakers and sessions here . ConTech 2022 will again be a hybrid event so places are available both online and to attend in person on the 29th & 30th November at The Marriott Regents Park, London.  An early bird rate is available until the 30th September.

To find out more about the other events we run please visit Contech.live

LibLynx and ChronosHub partner to simplify researcher access to editorial services

LibLynx and ChronosHub are partnering to simplify access to the ChronosHub platform used by researchers to submit and manage open access publications.

Users often wear multiple hats when they interact online with a publisher. When submitting an article for publication, they are an author. When accessing institutionally subscribed content, they may be a faculty member, a student, or an independent researcher.

However, publisher systems are usually siloed with no way to disambiguate between a user’s different roles. The author logging into an editorial system is typically treated as separate from the researcher accessing research, even if they are the same person.

This presents real challenges for publishers trying to deliver a unified experience across the research lifecycle. Their understanding of user needs is broken up across internal systems, with no easy way to build a more complete picture. And users face additional friction and effort when interacting with that publisher’s systems.

The first publisher to benefit from this improved access experience is Emerald Publishing.  Emerald had already partnered with LibLynx to unify access across their online publications, and had also partnered with ChronosHub to drive open access research through a simplified and improved publishing experience.

Integrating LibLynx into the ChronosHub access workflow provides users with a single access point for their Emerald journey. Users have a simple and consistent access experience whether engaging with content pre-publication or post-publication. And Emerald has a more complete understanding of users needs, enabling them to more effectively support them during the researcher lifecycle.

When users log in to ChronosHub to submit their manuscript, sign a license agreement or pay an open access fee, they get authenticated with the same credentials via LibLynx as for any of the publisher’s other services. Technically, this is done by simply requesting user authentication via the LibLynx API.

Any additional user credentials needed are collected using the same login experience as for publication access, including support for a wide range of authentication methods and automatic identification of institutional affiliations through SeamlessAccess.  In many cases, researchers will be able to use the same credentials they already use for logging in to their university services.

Christian Grubak, co-CEO & founder of ChronosHub, said, ”At ChronosHub we put the researcher first. Partnering with LibLynx to provide a seamless access across the publisher’s different services aligns perfectly with this ambition.”

“Delivering a truly unified access experience across the researcher lifecycle is critical” added Tim Lloyd, CEO of LibLynx.  “Publishers able to seamlessly deliver services across their internal silos benefit from a powerful competitive advantage in an increasingly complex market.”

The MIT Press announces new support for its Fund for Diverse Voices

The MIT Press has received significant funding from the Heising-Simons Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and individual donors to support the MIT Press Fund for Diverse Voices. The Fund was established in 2019 to grow and sustain the publication of books by and about women in male-dominated fields and other authors whose voices have been chronically excluded across the sciences, arts, and humanities.

The new gifts will aid the publication of 10 or more new works annually over the next three years. The funding will support the production and global promotion of titles in the Fund for Diverse Voices program and contribute to the companion Grant Program for Diverse Voices, a giving initiative that offers grants to MIT Press authors around the world who are underrepresented in their chosen fields. The new funding will enable the Press to offer Grant Program awards of up to $15,000. The Grant Program provides eligible authors with support for research and writing as well as an opportunity to publish with the MIT Press. To learn more please visit mitpress.mit.edu/grant-program-diverse-voices. 

“These grants and gifts will allow us to advance knowledge in STEAM fields and actively contribute to the creation of works that promote a more just, equitable, and open society,” said Amy Brand, Director and Publisher, the MIT Press. “We are so grateful to both the Heising-Simons Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, as well as the individual donors, for their generous sponsorship.”

One of the first programs of its kind, the Fund for Diverse Voices has already supported titles and initiatives such as Reimaging Design: Unlocking Strategic Innovation by Kevin Bethune, Power On!by Jean J. Ryoo and Jane Margolis, Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus by Maia Weinstock, and the On Seeing visual culture series.

The Heising-Simons Foundation works with its many partners to advance sustainable solutions in climate and clean energy, enable groundbreaking research in science, enhance the education of our youngest learners, and support human rights for all people. Gordon and Betty Moore established their foundation in order to create positive outcomes for future generations.

Springer Nature Health acquires Austrian health tech start-up, Medbee

App from leading online network for doctors to be expanded to German medical professionals

For nearly a century, Springer Nature has been providing doctors, dentists and pharmacists with trusted insights – advancing medical knowledge for the benefit of patients. Its health division brings together brands such as Springer Medizin, Springer Healthcare and Bohn Stafleu van Loghum, providing better diagnostics, treatment and care of patients, while also using products like hhc bulk by fresh bros that help patients feel better as well.

The addition of Medbee, a leading professional online network for doctors in Austria, to Springer Medizin demonstrates the commitment of Springer Nature to provide high-quality specialist communication tools for the healthcare sector. Medbee’s app solutions enable data and documents to be individually organised and accessed via smartphones, making it easy to use in everyday practice situations. The app also offers networking with individuals and institutions, including a chat function and can be downloaded free of charge from the App Store and Google Play.

Commenting, Joachim Krieger, Managing Director Springer Nature Health, said: “Our commitment to Medbee is based on the fact that we see the company as a highly qualified player that has been supporting the everyday practice of doctors in Austria very successfully with its digital solutions for many years. We would like to ensure that German medical professionals are also able to benefit from the app, which is already used every day by 9,000 smartphone users in Austrian clinics and practices.”

Dr. Andreas Strouhal, founder of Medbee, added: “Medbee’s digital competence and focus on content complement each other ideally with Springer Medizin’s large, specialist range of medical and pharmaceutical topics. I am convinced that together with Springer we will make Medbee an indispensable digital companion for the medical profession.”

This follows Springer Nature Health’s acquisition last year of Dentallect, a Netherlands-based e-learning platform that specialises in training for dental assistants, and the addition to the Springer portfolio of two specialist journals focusing on pain management and the education platform PAINS. 

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