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The Transformative Journal (TJ) model was one of the strategies cOAlition S developed to help subscription publishers transition to full and immediate Open Access (OA) in a defined timeframe. This report looks at the data provided by the participating publishers for the calendar year 2023. 

Among the journals in the DG2O program that will switch to open access in the coming year are particularly renowned titles such as the Historische Zeitschrift, founded in 1859, the Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, first published in 1888, as well as esteemed periodicals committed to critical perspectives on socio-political questions such as Analyse und Kritik (founded in 1979) and feministische studien (founded in 1982).

Clarivate Plc, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today released the 2024 update to the Journal Citation Reports™ (JCR™). The reports provide an essential and comprehensive resource of high-quality journals, ranked by field to enable academic institutions, researchers and publishers to gauge the significance of journals in the global research landscape.

Overdependence on ‘opaque’ artificial intelligence (AI) systems in research could make scientific findings less reliable and limit their usefulness to solving real world challenges, a report by the Royal Society has found.

Clarivate Plc, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today launched Research Horizon Navigator™, a powerful new AI-native module withinInCites Benchmarking & Analytics™ that highlights emerging research topics where future breakthroughs are likely to occur. Academics, funding agencies, government research organizations and research strategists will be able to identify new research trends and determine the most impactful areas for future investments and strategies. 

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (LSE: BMY), the leading independent publisher, today announces that it has completed the asset purchase of the academic imprints and associated titles of Rowman & Littlefield, one of the most respected independent publishers in the US Academic market. 

The European Commission has finally published a full guide to advise researchers on grant agreements for the EU’s current research and innovation funding programme, Horizon Europe, which started in 2021.

Springer Nature has signed a Transformative Agreement (TA) with Couperin, the French consortium for higher education and research establishments. Beginning July 2024, the multi-year agreement will provide participating members with the option to publish their research open access (OA) which will improve the global visibility and impact of researchers based in France.  

The MIT Press announces the release of a report on its Direct to Open (D2O)program detailing the impact that it has had in its first three years. Launched in 2021, D2O is a sustainable framework for open access monographs that shifts publishing from a solely market-based, purchase model where individuals and libraries buy single eBooks, to a collaborative, library-supported open access model. 

A new global study from IOP Publishing (IOPP) has found that certain peer review communities continue to feel overburdened by reviewer requests, while others remain underrepresented.  The survey, which generated over 3,000 responses from peer reviewers from across the globe, revealed regional and career-stage disparities:  

Successful first iteration of transformative agreement DEAL delivered high visibility for German science internationally as well as improved access to global research. Only a few months after it was signed, almost all German universities and higher education institutions have joined the renewed open access (OA)  agreement between the DEAL consortium and Springer Nature.

When some of the leading technology minds in scholarly publishing gather each fall to polish their crystal orbs, the outcome has always been an invigorating and enlightening experience. This year, it has proved no different. At the STM Conference in Washington, DC today, the new STM Trends 2028 was released.