Editorial

Enago is delighted to announce a brand new collaboration with the journals division of Oxford University Press. The service will support authors of journals published by OUP when preparing their manuscripts for submission. Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world and a prestigious publisher of scholarly books, journals, education and English Language Teaching resources.

DataSalon announced today that both of their cloud-based systems, PaperStack and MasterVision, can now offer support for the reporting requirements created by Read & Publish deals – helping publishers in the move towards Open Access.

We are pleased to report that our mathematics journals have performed particularly well in this year’s Journal Impact Factors TM from Clarivate. The star performer is Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena (MMNP) which increased by 153% (from 1.642 to 4.157) having already increased by 73% last year.

Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today released the 2021 update to its annual Journal Citation Reports (JCR)™.

The European Hernia Society (EHS) has officially chosen Frontiers as the publisher of its new journal, Journal of Abdominal Wall Surgery (JAWS). The partnership agreement between the two organizations will run from June 2021. The Journal of Abdominal Wall Surgery will be the first official journal of the EHS and will officially launch on Frontiers’ open-access platform in July 2021.

SAGE Publishing has announced that it is now offering open reviewer reports via the Web of Science™ transparent peer review service. The program enables transparent publication of an article’s complete peer review process, from initial review and response through to revision and final publication decision.

The Academy of Management have exclusively partnered with Charlesworth Author Services to provide English language editing services for their authors from peer review to publication.

A new report by Emerald Publishing has found that academics have a strong desire to change the way research is presented to make it more useable in a post-Covid world. They call for faster dissemination and easier use of research for non-academics, including students, some of which will go on to become the researchers of tomorrow.

Leading research communication platforms Research Square and Kudos have partnered to help preprint authors accelerate and maximize exposure of their newly shared research.

The Charlesworth Group is delighted to announce it has renewed its partnership for China sales representation with seven major publishers

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (LSE: BMY), the leading independent publisher, today announces that it has signed a sale and purchase agreement for the acquisition of certain assets of Red Globe Press (“RGP”), the academic imprint, from Macmillan Education Limited, a part of Springer Nature Group.

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, today announced an extension of its recent 10% price reduction for SPIE Digital Library and SPIE journal institutional subscriptions.