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IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization advancing technology for humanity, announced today that its journals once again excelled in the journal citation rankings according to the latest Journal Citation Reports™ from Clarivate Analytics and CiteScore™ metrics by Scopus, both released in June 2024.

Wiley, a global leader in research and learning, today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Matthew Kissner as president and CEO, following a successful interim period. “Over the past nine months, Matt has made great progress improving our organization, accelerating our value creation plans, driving strong momentum in our core, and rallying around new AI opportunities,” said Jesse Wiley, chair of the board. “As an experienced C-suite operator and Wiley veteran, he brings a deep understanding of our markets, customers, operations, financials, and people – all of which has been evident in our material progress.”

Frontiers, a leading open access publisher dedicated to scientific advancement, announced the roll-out of its flat fee open access model for institutions. As a pioneer of open access publishing since 2007, Frontiers has extensive experience in co-developing partnership models with a wide range of institutions based on their individual research and budgetary needs.

​​​​For a third year, Karger Publishers will continue its S2O program by adding two more journals with promise to accelerate toward Open Access (OA), European Addiction Research and Neurodegenerative Diseases, in 2025. By adding these two journals, Karger is offering OA content to more fields and communities where free and immediate online availability of research, independently of APCs or funding, is beneficial to scientific and societal progress. 

The American Association of Respiratory Care (AARC), and global media company, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., have entered into a new co-publishing agreement for the Association’s flagship journal, Respiratory Care. The partnership was facilitated by leading scholarly publishing advisors, KGL Consulting, part of KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd.

With 20 years of action in the Open space, SPARC Europe is embarking on a year-long process to create a broader open agenda by connecting Open Science and Open Education. Making this connection has benefits for research, education and society. Through this work, SPARC Europe will help European public universities realise the value of open, equitable and fair access to knowledge for all.

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) today announced the publication of the Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern (CREC) Recommended Practice (NISO RP-45-2024). Funding for the CREC Working Group as well as for research at the University of Illinois' Reducing the Inadvertent Spread of Retracted Science (RISRS) project, which aided Working Group deliberations and decisions, was generously provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

RLUK is delighted to have signed a collaboration agreement with The National Archives for the period 2024-2027. The agreement continues our joint work under our previous Memorandum of Understanding, and underlines our shared commitment to cross-sector collaboration, driving innovation and workforce development in our sectors, and exploring new ways to engage audiences with our collections and services.

ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and CABI, an international, intergovernmental, not-for-profit scientific research and publishing organisation, today announced a new partnership that will increase the visibility of CABI’s research journals through ResearchGate’s innovative Journal Home offering.

The Public Library of Science (PLOS) is pleased to announce a consortium agreement with Consorcio Colombia / Consortia facilitated by Accucoms, that allows joining member institutions to participate in PLOS’ three innovative publishing models across all 14 PLOS titles. The agreement provides researchers from affiliated institutions unlimited publishing privileges in PLOS journals without incurring fees.

Digital Science, a technology company serving stakeholders across the research ecosystem, todayannounces an exciting new tranche of data that throws light on how and why research cuts through to society at large – in the shape of the Altmetric 500.

IOP Publishing (IOPP) has published the first original research papers in its flagship journal, Reports on Progress in Physics, adding to its 90-year legacy as one of the world’s most authoritative sources of physics review content.