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Silverchair announced today a new partnership with Royal Society Publishing to host their prestigious publications on the Silverchair Platform. Royal Society Publishing hosts an extensive archive dating back to 1665, including ten leading journals specialising in cross disciplinary research.

ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and Sciedu Press, a publisher specialising in scientific and education content, have today announced a new Journal Home partnership covering a selection of fully open access (OA) journals. 

MDPI, a leading open access publisher, today announced the relaunch of a submission platform specifically designed to support small-scale, independent publishers. The Journal and Article Management System, JAMS, now offers flexible pricing and new editorial services to improve accessibility. 

The De Gruyter eBound Foundation is pleased to announce a major milestone for University Press Library Open (UPLOpen), its comprehensive open access initiative and eBook platform. Launched in April 2024 with a goal of drawing attention to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UPLOpen now hosts 10,000 open access titles from more than 50 prestigious academic publishers.

Knowledge Unlatched (KU), a Wiley brand, is collaborating with LibLynx to enhance the delivery of comprehensive usage analytics for Open Access (OA) scholarly publications. LibLynx’s innovative Touchstone analytics solution, developed in partnership with PSI Metrics, will enable libraries worldwide to assess the impact of thousands of OA titles made available through KU’s library crowdfunding initiatives.

ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and De Gruyter Brill, a global leader in humanities publishing and beyond, have today announced an expansion of their Journal Home partnership covering 60 titles. They have additionally activated the pioneering Open Access Agreement Upgrade.  

1,000 institutions in 53 countries are now participating. We have agreements with 20 library consortia, and we have recently renewed our agreements with BIBSAM, CAUL and Jisc. We have seen growth in many regions given the support of consortia representatives and regional partners.

In line with the Government of India’s groundbreaking One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) initiative, Wiley, one of the world’s largest publishers and a trusted leader in research and learning, has signed a 3-year license agreement. Under this agreement, Wiley has enabled access to nearly 2,000 journals, supporting approximately 18 million students, researchers, and faculty across 6,300+ government higher education institutions and research centers nationwide.

Silverchair today announced a partnership with the Publications division of the American Chemical Society (ACS Publications) to develop a new content hosting platform that will deliver ACS’s indispensable chemistry-related resources to the global research community.

The Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of Serbia has adopted a new national open science (OS) policy – the Open Science Platform 2.0 – that applies to all Serbian publicly-funded research projects and programmes. EIFL welcomes the adoption of the policy, which significantly expands the scope of OS efforts in Serbia, and updates the country’s first national OS policy, which was adopted in 2018. 

The recent months have been deeply unsettling for those of us who work in the global scholarly communications industry.  The challenges stemming from a shifting U.S. political landscape, which threaten academic freedom, DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility) initiatives, the scholarly record, and federal research funding, are affecting the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) community in multiple ways: mentally, emotionally, physically, and financially.

We’re pleased to once again share our annual reporting from the Plan S Journal Comparison Service to give our community insight into how our publication fees are used to support journal activities.