November 29, 2019

What do the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, King Abdulaziz University and Harvard University Have in Common? Ruth’s Rankings October-November 2019 Update

Research SupportNovember 29, 2019

By Ruth A. Pagell* Nature releases its top Young Universities rankings with 42 East Asia/Pacific universities QS’ Arab Region 2020 Rankings has a new regional leader U.S. News Best Global Universities adds 250 new institutions, but few from ASEAN Following up on Ruth’s Rankings 41 on sustainability, a U.S. urban university embraces farming Other news…

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Addendum to the cOAlition S Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S

Open AccessNovember 29, 2019

(26 Nov 2019) cOAlition S endorse a number of strategies to encourage subscription publishers to transition to Open Access. These approaches are referred to as ’transformative arrangements’ and include transformative agreements, transformative model agreements and transformative journals. The Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S indicates an ambition of developing a framework for ‘transformative journals’.…

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National license agreement signed between Elsevier and Couperin, France

PublishersNovember 29, 2019

(28 Nov 2019) Couperin, the French academic consortium for higher education and research and Elsevier, a global information analytics business specializing in science and health, has signed a new national license agreement This four-year agreement (2019-2022) will provide researchers at universities and research institutions across France with equal access to Elsevier’s high-quality content provided through the ScienceDirect platform and…

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