IOS Press Labs Goes Live An invitation to visit a new virtual space that showcases innovative and technical achievements of IOS Press and the wider scholarly publishing community and join the conversation IOS Press, an international publisher providing content and services for scientific,…
IP Rights Infringement Update The UK Intellectual Property Office has shared updated guidance for rightsholders on how to protect IP rights including a short video. Section 3 (How to enforce your intellectual property) was updated, providing a broad overview of the IP enforcement system in the…
IPA announces SDG Publishers Compact hits its first 100 signatories Today marks a special milestone for our industry with 100 publishers and publishing organizations signing up to the SDG Publishers Compact. Launched in collaboration with the IPA, at Frankfurt Book Fair last October, the set of 10…
Is the nature of academic research changing? An analysis in Learned Publishing indicates that the number of academic research articles using surveys and questionnaires has dramatically risen in the past 20 years; however, the quality of some of these articles (and therefore the research) may be in…
MDPI, the open access (OA) publisher, has announced a new partnership with the Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Società Italiana di Gerontologia e Geriatria, SIGG). As a result, the society’s Journal of Gerontology and Geriatrics (JGG) has transferred publishing responsibilities to…
Italy concludes first National Open Access deal for Biomedical Institutions The first National Open Access Framework in Italy for Biomedical Institutions has today been signed by the Italian consortium of Biomedical Research Libraries – Bibliosan – and the leading open access publisher,…
