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ACS Publications partners with Digital Science’s Figshare to promote open data discovery and use

Open Access, PublishersNovember 8, 2015

(4 November 2015, Washington) The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) announced today a strategic partnership with Figshare (http://figshare.com/), an open repository that promotes broad discoverability of scientific research data. The ACS-Figshare partnership will not only provide for improved archiving and access to open data sets and other supporting information that often accompany…

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IPEM and IOP extend partnership to create book programme

eBooks, PublishersNovember 7, 2015

(6 November 2015) The Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have been journal-publishing partners for more than 40 years. IPEM and IOP are today announcing that they will create a new eBook programme specifically designed for the medical physics and biomedical engineering communities. Professor David Brettle, President of IPEM…

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COAR guidelines for assessing publisher repository services

Publishers, Technology, ToolsNovember 5, 2015

(4 November 2015) COAR is happy to present its new guidelines for assessing publisher repository services. The guidelines contain criteria that will help repositories make decisions about whether or not to adopt the different services being offered by publishers to the repository community. They were developed in consultation with the COAR Executive Board and the…

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Springer Nature implements ORCID unique digital identifiers for books and chapters

Metadata, PublishersNovember 3, 2015

(2 November 2015) Springer Nature will collaborate with ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) to provide the work of book authors, chapter authors and book editors with digital identifiers, ensuring the recognition of their work. These identifiers can be linked to the researcher’s contributions to enhance scientific discovery and collaboration within the research community. Springer…

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Court orders shutdown of Libgen, Bookfi and Sci-Hub

(2 November 2015) A New York District Court has granted Elsevier’s request for a preliminary injunction against several sites that host academic publications without permission. As a result the site’s operators are now ordered to quit offering access to infringing content, while the associated registries must suspend their domain names. Torrentfreak has the story.

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ORCID launches Crossref and DataCite auto-update

eJournals, Publishers, Technology, ToolsOctober 27, 2015

(26 October 2015) ORCID, the non-profit organization that is working to address the name ambiguity problem in scholarly communications by providing a registry of persistent identifiers for researchers, today announced the launch of Auto-Update functionality, in collaboration with Crossref and DataCite. Now, ORCID registrants who use their unique ORCID identifier (iD) when submitting a manuscript…

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10 years of open access at the Wellcome Trust in 10 numbers

Open Access, PublishersOctober 23, 2015

(22 October 2015) In October 2005 the Wellcome Trust became the first research funder to introduce a mandatory Open Access policy – requiring that all research outputs which arise from its funding must be made open access as soon as possible and in any event within six months of publication. To celebrate 10 years of…

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The Nielsen India book market report 2015: Understanding the India book market

Asia Pacific, PublishersOctober 22, 2015

(12 October 2015, London, New York and New Delhi) Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy, was commissioned by The Association of Publishers in India (API) and the Federation of Indian Publishers (FIP) to produce a major new study: The India Book Market: Understanding the India Book…

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Over 60% of 2015 research articles on nature.com are open access

Open Access, PublishersOctober 22, 2015

(20 October 2015) Open access is thriving at Nature Publishing Group (NPG). Sixty three per cent of original research articles published to date on nature.com in 2015 are open access, nearly 10,000 papers. Ten years ago, NPG introduced its first fully open access journal. Today, NPG publishes over 80 journals with an open access option.…

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AIP Publishing begins opening federally funded research to the public

Open Access, PublishersOctober 18, 2015

(14 October 2015, Melville, NY) AIP Publishing announced today that from this month it is one of the first STM publishers to begin making federally funded research articles it publishes in its journals publicly available through CHORUS (Clearing House for the Open Research of the United States). Over the next twelve months, AIP Publishing will…

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