Editorial

IOP Publishing has expanded its growing ebook collection today with the publication of ‘Creativity for Scientists and Engineers: A practical guide’ which explores how scientists can utilise collaboration and thinking outside the box to be more creative and in turn, further scientific development and breakthroughs.

Building on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to generate books, Springer Nature has invested in, and developed, an AI-based Digital Editing language polishing tool which is designed to add value to scientific publishing. This was done via AJE, part of Research Square Company. 

A new series of open access journals from Cambridge University Press will address global challenges by bringing together researchers across national and subject boundaries.

Aligning with the strategic importance of improving submission quality, the Charlesworth Group and Writefull have now partnered to offer authors Writefull for free within the Charlesworth AI Paper Checking Service. The aim is to reduce the likelihood of manuscript rejection and help quicken the publication process.

Reviewer Credits (RC), originally founded in Milan by Giacomo Bellani and Robert Fruscio as a spin off company of the University of Milan-Bicocca, is launching with a new team. Experienced entrepreneurs in scholarly publishing around Dr. Sven Fund have taken the helm at RC. Their goal is to make quality assurance through peer review in all scientific fields part of the academic record.

Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today celebrates Peer Review Week with the announcement of new services for authors to better track their peer review activity. This includes academic publications, citation metrics and journal editing, now all in one place within the newly launched Web of Science™ Researcher Profiles.

IOP Publishing (IOPP) announces today a new collaboration with ChronosHub, a platform that streamlines the open access publishing workflow to unburden researchers. The initial phase of the collaboration includes a free-to-use IOPP branded Journal Finder, which enables authors to easily check if the IOPP journal they have chosen to publish their work in complies with their funder or institutional requirements. 

Enago is pleased to announce a brand new collaboration with the medical publisher, Radcliffe Group. The service will support authors preparing manuscripts for peer review. Radcliffe Group is a specialist medical publisher of journals as well as producer of live broadcasts, video and podcasts.

Academic publisher Taylor & Francis today launched a Monkeypox Hub and journal article collection. These new resources will help scientists, practitioners, and members of the public find the trusted, peer-reviewed research they need to understand every aspect of the current outbreak.

Reagents - core components in chemical, biochemical and related lab work - are essential for researchers and academics to be able to plan their experiments and develop their research. However, many experiment reproducibility problems can be tied directly to reagents.

IOP Publishing (IOPP) has published the first articles in the open access journal, Environmental Research: Ecology featuring research from a number of world-renowned ecologists. The journal represents one of three new interdisciplinary titles opening in 2022 that will extend IOPP’s Environmental Research series to six open access journals.

Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) is excited to announce a new partnership with the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE), a non-partisan group of practicing ecologists and evolutionary biologists throughout Canada.