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The UK’s research institutions and the world-leading provider of science, technology and medical information products and services signed today a landmark agreement granting academics access to globally-published, high-quality research at costs lower than the industry average.

Crossref, the not-for-profit member organization for publishers, announced today that it is now accepting the registration of Crossref DOIs for preprints. The key decision is to acknowledge that preprints are a valuable part of the research story, and ensure that authors' own or institutional repository versions can be linked up with any eventual version on a publisher's site.

Silverchair Information Systems and the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) are pleased to announce the launch of the AAD’s Dermatology Patient Education website (https://patiented.pointofcare.aad.org).This website was developed and is hosted on Silverchair’s SCM6 product development platform.

Springer and BioMed Central are retracting 58 articles published across seven journals this week, after a thorough investigation which revealed evidence of plagiarism, peer review and authorship manipulation, suggestive of attempts to subvert the peer review and publication system to inappropriately obtain or allocate authorship.

Kudos (www.growkudos.com), the award-winning service for maximizing the reach and impact of research publications, has announced new appointments to its Board of Directors and the successful close of a second funding round.

Peter Ashman has been appointed as BMJ’s next Chief Executive, effective from 1 January 2017. Peter was chosen from an exceptional pool of candidates from both inside and outside the company, and succeeds Tim Brooks who is stepping down after four years as CEO.

Network organization Amsterdam Data Science (ADS) signed an agreement with scientific information solutions provider Elsevier aimed at advancing data science research and education in Amsterdam.

The momentum continues as ProQuest joins forces with yet another publisher group – Taylor & Francis – to provide libraries with more choices for purchasing ebooks though OASIS.

The 2016 edition of STM’s Innovations seminar covers everything that is now hot on the web: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Our program offers forward looking updates on social sharing and collaboration networks

SAGE Publishing has launched a collection of streaming videos designed to help students and researchers learn and develop research skillsets and navigate the research process. Titled SAGE Research Method Video, the collection includes 484 videos on the broad spectrum of social science research methods and statistics.

According to the Nature Index, Melbourne was Australia's leading city in terms of high-quality science output in 2015, followed by Sydney. The index also shows that Brisbane saw the fastest growth in output between 2012 and 2015, and is home to the highest-placed institution in Australia.

Figshare, an online digital repository for academic research, today released the results of its global survey of 2,000 researchers and report, “The State of Open Data,” to assess the global landscape around open data and sharing practices.