Canadian institutions to benefit from IOP Publishing open access agreement for the first time 
IOP Publishing (IOPP) and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) have signed an unlimited open access (OA) agreement. The three-year ‘read and publish’ deal offers authors affiliated with 45 CRKN member organisations unlimited OA publishing in IOPP’s hybrid and fully OA journals. The reading component of the agreement provides ongoing access to all of IOPP’s fully owned and partner journals.
Underline – New milestone: We hit the 20,000 videos landmark
We have reached another milestone in the growth of our streaming video platform. We now have a very impressive number of over20,000 videos in our Digital Video Library.
It’s another big step for us and we are thrilled to keep on growing - with you!
Read & Publish agreements drive significant increase in Open Access research content
Over 400 institutions in 34 countries are now participating in The Company of Biologists’ Read & Publish Open Access initiative. We have signed agreements with library consortia in Australia, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Spain, the UK and the USA.
PLOS announces partnership with Einstein Foundation Berlin
he Public Library of Science (PLOS) today announced a new partnership with the Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research.
Peer J introduces an innovative program to reward contributors with genuine benefits
PeerJ, the award-winning Open Access publisher, has announced an innovative new reward program for peer review contributions. Based on contributors earning PeerJ Tokens for each submission...
STM Report – Open Access, Open Data Increase Demand for STM Online Services
Whether fueled by a global arms race in research and development, the movement towards open research, or the mobilization against coronavirus — the number of research papers and associated data produced each year is exploding. By one estimate, the COVID-19 literature published from January 2020 to May 2020 reached more than 23,000 papers and is doubling every 20 days.
Figshare awarded NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative grant to enhance functionality for research community
Figshare is pleased to participate in a new NIH initiative, the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI). GREI is led by the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) and provides funding for repositories to grow their functionality and better meet the needs of research communities and the NIH Desirable Characteristics for Data Repositories.
MIT Press publications win 2022 PROSE category awards
This week, the Association of American Publishers unveiled the finalists and category winners for the 46th annual PROSE awards honoring scholarly works published in 2021. Six MIT Press publications were selected as finalists and four of those titles are category winners.
Clarivate Launches New Global Research Report on Managing Academic Publication Credit in a Collaborative...
Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today released a new report from the company’s Institute for Scientific Information™ which proposes a new method for analyzing the credit authors of academic papers receive via citations.
Bloomsbury – Trading ahead of expectations
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (LSE: BMY), the leading independent publisher, today gives a pre-year end trading update for the 12 months ending 28 February 2022.
IOP Publishing and the TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology announce...
Not-for-profit society publisher IOP Publishing (IOPP) and TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology have established a consortium agreement which enables researchers at participating German institutions to publish unlimited articles on an open access (OA) basis in 56 hybrid and 15 fully open access (OA) journals.
ResearchGate and IOP Publishing partner to increase the visibility of academic content
ResearchGate and IOP Publishing (IOPP) today announce a new collaboration agreement to explore ways to support the scientific community through syndication of IOPP peer reviewed scholarly content on ResearchGate’s platform.