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The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today released its StatShot report for July 2020 reflecting reported revenue for all tracked categories, including Trade (consumer publications), K-12 Instructional Materials, Higher Education Course Materials, Professional Publishing, and University Presses.

Springer Nature and ResearchGate have agreed to move forward with a long-term content syndication partnership starting in Q4 of 2020. This cooperation expands the scope of a two-phase pilot, which began in 2019 and has been evaluated in a white paper published today.

According to Bloomberg, Springer Nature is preparing to kick off a Frankfurt initial public offering, people familiar with the matter said. The company targets to announce its intention to float as soon as this month, according to the people. It plans to sell about 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) of new stock in the offering, said the people, asking not to be identified because the information is private.

As announced at the end of APE 2020 Conference in January, the years-long organiser Arnoud de Kemp had found a solution for the future of APE and that he would enter into a co-operation with the Walter de Gruyter Foundation, the family charity set up by the heirs of the publisher Walter de Gruyter in Berlin.

SAGE and Hindawi have recently entered into a publishing partnership agreement whereby the latter will publish and develop three SAGE gold open access journals for a period of at least three years.

Overleaf has been named as a winner in the 2020 SaaS AwardsProgramme in the category of Best SaaS for Nonprofits or Education.

Transformative Agreements (TAs) continue to have an influential and driving impact on enabling a country to flip to a fully open access (OA) environment sustainably and effectively. The latest data from Springer Nature on the growth of OA publishing as a result of its national TAs illustrates that any country with an agreement in place with the publisher, has the ability to flip to full OA.

Elsevier, a global research publishing and information analytics provider, and part of RELX, has acquired SciBite, a semantic AI company headquartered in Cambridge, UK, to help customers...

Underline Science (underline.io) is proud to announce the expansion of their Advisory Board, with the addition of scientific association and industry leaders Karen Bartleson, formerly president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and Martin Frank, Ph.D., formerly executive director of the American Physiological Society (APS).

MIT Press, Springer Nature, UCL Press and Cambridge University Press join the C19 Rapid Review Initiative that is now endorsed by RoRI, SSRN, and AfricArxiv in addition to OASPA, making it one of the largest cross-publisher collaborations in the scholarly publishing industry.

Enago, a global leader in editing and publication support services, recently conducted a comprehensive global survey on the future of research education in the backdrop of COVID-19. This broad survey is the first part in a series of Research Risk Assessment surveys and represents millions of students and thousands of faculty members.

Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CCC), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, has now launched the Arabic Citation Index™ (ARCI), the world’s first local language citation index for the Arabic world in Egypt.