(17 Nov 2022) Oxford University Press (OUP), has today announced a transformative three-year Read and Publish agreement with major journals consortium, the Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE). Under the agreement, members of the JUSTICE consortium that opt-in will be able to rapidly increase the proportion of articles that they publish open…
(15 Nov 2022) Crimson Interactive announced the acquisition of The Charlesworth Group, a company with headquarters in the UK and known for its China-focused language polishing, agency sales, marketing services and technology offerings. Enago is a trusted name in author services for the global research community. For close to two decades, the company has been a preferred…
(15 Nov 2022) Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics and the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) – the negotiating body representing universities in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), have today announced an agreement to provide immediate open access to ANZ research for the world and continued access to global research for…
(3 Nov 2022) CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society that specializes in scientific information solutions, launched CAS Insights™, a new content hub at the intersection of science, technology, and innovation. Offering business and research leaders actionable perspectives on the latest developments across science and technology, CAS Insights draws on the human-curated data collection and…
(1 Nov 2022) The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has committed to making all of its journals open access within the next five years. It is the first chemistry publisher to commit to a 100% open access model and hopes to fund the move in a way that will avoid individual authors having to pay article processing…
(27 Oct 2022) Following a year of research and community engagement funded by a planning grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Public Knowledge Program, Project MUSE is preparing a Subscribe to Open (S2O) offer across multiple journal titles and participating publishers that will begin with the 2025 calendar year subscription term. With more than 700 current journals in…
(10 Oct 2022) DOAJ and OpenAIRE are pleased to announce a new partnership which will promote collaboration and discovery between the two parties, by sharing metadata and enriching it. The collaboration aims to enhance the discoverability of the journals indexed in DOAJ in two ways: by enhancing DOAJ’s article metadata with metadata from the…
(13 Oct 2022) SAGE has launched a free-to-read collection of research and other resources supporting library professionals as they make improvements in their library, across their institutions, and build their own leadership skills. Categories in the collection include: leadership and management fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion publishing and research support library innovation information literacy professional…
(11 Oct 2022) As the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in early 2020, librarians, archivists, and others with interest in preserving cultural heritage began documenting the personal, cultural, and societal impact of the global pandemic on their communities. These efforts included creating archival collections preserving physical, digital, and web-based records and information for use by students, scholars,…
(3 Oct 2022) Oxford University Press (OUP) and Qatar National Library have announced a new three-year Read and Publish agreement. The agreement is significant as it will provide 50 institutions with online access to OUP’s full collection of peer-reviewed journals. The deal is also the first of its kind for OUP in Qatar and its largest one to date…