(15 Jun 2022) The lawsuit was filed by OCLC earlier this week in U.S. Federal Court, Southern District of Ohio. The complaint (32 pages; PDF) is available here. The complete court docket with additional items is also available and is updated as new documents become available. From the compliant: “OCLC, Inc., (“OCLC”), by and through counsel, files…
(15 Jun 2022) The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the oldest engineering society in the US, and Morressier, the leading platform for early-stage research, today announced a new partnership to create a Conference Proceedings Video Collection, which expands ASCE’s event offerings beyond traditional print proceedings papers and will give users a multimedia conference experience.…
(8 Jun 2022) Springer Nature has made Nature Masterclasses on-demand online training content free to access for researchers in lower-income countries through Research4Life. Nature Masterclasses offers highly targeted courses designed to enhance the skills and boost the confidence of early career researchers, with over 60,000 researchers globally having benefited from the platform to date. The world-class training is delivered…
(10 Jun 2022) For over 50 years, Emerald has been an independent publishing house, formed by a group of management academics at the University of Bradford, UK, and latterly run as a family-owned business, spearheaded by the late Dr. Keith Howard OBE. A publisher of academic journals, books, and case studies in the social sciences, Emerald…
(9 Jun 2022) CiteScore 2021 values are now available in Scopus! There are over 15,000 titles which have a CiteScore 2021 but no Impact Factor. Of these 15,000+ titles, 708 of the titles are very highly ranked (in the top 10%) of their subject area. Find out more from the announcement here. See CiteScore 2021…
(2nd Jun 2022) Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, is establishing a pilot with Oable, the innovative open access (OA) workflow management solution developed by Knowledge Unlatched, to simplify the librarian approval workflow for open access publishing. Oable supports libraries in managing their OA activities across publishers, including different types…
(13 May 2022) China’s market regulator had launched an antitrust investigation into the country’s largest online academic database, the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI). The State Administration for Market Regulation published the announcement on its website. It did not provide further details. CNKI, whose parent company is Tsinghua Tongfang 600100.SS, a Chinese state-owned software company…
(4 May 2022) A group of scholarly publishers is launching a major new website to explain research about pandemics and infectious diseases to the public, policymakers, media, and other audiences within and beyond academia. COVID and Beyond: Living with Pandemics has been sponsored by Kudos, Impact Science, the American Chemical Society, AIP Publishing, De Gruyter, Hindawi,…
(3 May 2022) Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the international initiative for Open Access (OA), is pleased to announce the launch of the ninth round of funding today, which has to date helped publish over 3,000 scholarly books and 50 journals OA in a wide range of HSS and STEM fields. This year’s pledging options include KU’s flagship collection…
(6 May 2022) IGI Global has embarked on a collaboration with the University of North Texas (UNT) to release the publisher’s first platinum Open Access (OA) reference book. The forthcoming book which is set to release in early May, Global View of Open Access and Scholarly Communications, edited by Dr. Daniel Gelaw Alemneh of UNT, has…