SYP Autumn conference returns to London and the society announces First Chapter Award shortlist The Society of Young Publishers (SYP) annual Autumn conference will take place on Saturday 30th November 2024 at Kingston University, exploring the theme Publishing Past, Present and Future, and rounds…
SYP 2022 volunteer applications are open The Society of Young Publishers (SYP) have opened volunteer applications for 2022 roles on all committees apart from Scotland. (SYP Scotland applications will open later in spring next year) Registration closes on Wednesday, 05 January 2022, at 10.00…
Switzerland and Frontiers reach national Open Access agreement The Swiss research community strengthens its commitment to Open Access through a new national publishing agreement with the Lausanne head-quartered open-access publisher Frontiers. Starting on 1st March 2022, this one-year pilot…
Swiss Library Consortium Renews Partnership with MDPI In a positive step forward for Open Access publishing in Switzerland, MDPI, the country’s largest fully Open Access publisher, has today announced the renewal of its strategic partnership with the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries.…
Basel, Switzerland—9 April 2025—MDPI, the world’s largest fully open-access publisher, today announced the renewal of its national partnership agreement with Sweden’s Bibsam Consortium. Notably, 22 institutions will receive partner benefits under MDPI’s Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP),…
Survey: Perceptions of Preprints In anticipation of Peer Review Week 2020, and in consideration of the theme Trust in Peer Review, Delta Think is currently surveying broadly to determine whether COVID-19 has had an impact on perceptions of Preprints. TAKE THE SURVEY The survey is open to…
Survey on Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Web-Scale Discovery From the NISO Open Discovery Initiative The NISO Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) aims to define standards and/or best practices for the web-scale library discovery services that are based on indexed search. As…
