The Charlesworth Group and Royal Society of Chemistry strengthen partnership The Charlesworth Group and the Royal Society of Chemistry strengthen their partnership by offering authors language editing and publication support services The Royal Society of Chemistry has selected The Charlesworth…
COUNTER user survey There is a project underway to collect feedback on COUNTER Release 5, and to find out how it has been to implement, whether it has achieved its aims, and what uses people are making of it. This will inform and guide COUNTER’s future development. The consultants carrying out…
Scholastica Announces New Edition of Academic Journal Management Best Practices: Tales From the Trenches Scholastica announces the release of a completely revamped 2nd edition of its eBook Academic Journal Management Best Practices: Tales From the Trenches. Like the first edition, this eBook…
Evidence Aid appeals for funding to continue its work UK-based development charity playing an important role in global fight against COVID-19 appeals for funding A UK-based charity that has collated and translated more than 250 coronavirus-related research papers to aid clinicians and…
Cabells announces brand-wide language changes In support of, and in solidarity with, the fight against systemic racism that our country is facing, Cabells is implementing brand-wide language changes, effective immediately. Since late last year, Cabells has been working on developing new branding…
IOP Publishing and Hungarian consortium sign OA agreement IOP Publishing and Hungarian consortium sign open access publishing agreement Researchers at five Hungarian institutions can now publish their research open access in 57 IOP Publishing (IOPP) journals, thanks to a new publish and read…
SMPs Consultation on Barriers to Open Access At Jisc we are distributing a survey to Small and Medium Publishers (SMPs) consulting on barriers to Open Access. We are asking SMPs to partake and provide feedback about the impact of Plan S and the transition to open access to their organisations. We…
Survey Extended: The State of Journal Production and Access If you haven’t had a chance to take “The State of Journal Production and Access” survey, there’s still time — the deadline has been extended to 5 June 2020. You can take the survey here. Since 12 March 2020, Scholastica has been running…
OpenAthens reports on impact of coronavirus crisis According to Vee Rogacheva, UX and service designer at leading single-sign on provider OpenAthens, the impact Covid-19 is having on access to information and the role of libraries differs hugely according to institution’s digital maturity.…
