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Interest in open access is on the rise for American higher education faculty aged 22 to 44, while the journal’s Impact Factor continues to diminish in importance for most faculty, according to results announced today from Ithaka S+R’s U.S. Faculty Survey 2021, aided by sponsorship from academic publisher Taylor & Francis.

Thanks to the support of libraries participating in Direct to Open (D2O), the MIT Presswill publish its full list of 2022 scholarly monographs and edited collections open access on the MIT Press Direct platform. Thirty-seven of the eighty works are already openly available to readers around the world, and a full list of titles included in the model this calendar year may be found at the end of this announcement.

Springer Nature today launches a new AI-led service to help research decision makers from academic, government and corporate organizations make informed data driven funding and strategy decisions, enabling them to deliver greater socio-economic impact from their investments in research.

Data Licensing Alliance, Inc. (DLA), the first marketplace for licensing STEM data for artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) purposes, today announced it had doubled the number of datasets on the DLA marketplace.

Technology from SAGE, a division of SAGE Publishing, has acquired Sciwheel, an award-winning tool providing library patrons with an easy way to discover, read, annotate, write, and share research. Founded by Vitek Tracz, the entrepreneur behind the Current Opinion journals, Current Drugs, F1000 and BioMed Central, Sciwheel was created to go beyond traditional reference management by assisting students and researchers throughout the entire writing process.

cOAlition S and Science Europe are organising an online panel discussion titled “The Rights Retention Strategy: Academic freedom and responsibility for researchers” on 14 July, 15.45 – 17.00 CEST during the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF). ESOF participants can attend the session by entering the Observatory, Room 6. 

After a successful first, five-year term, the partners unanimously renew the agreement with EDP Sciences continuing to provide the publishing services The partners of the “Accord national pour l’accès ouvert en France” (National Open Access Agreement in France) are delighted to announce that they have renewed the agreement for a further five-year term until 31 December 2026.

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), is pleased to announce the shortlist for the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2022. Applications for the annual awards were open to any new development, product, service or project which is both innovative and of significant value to scholarly communication. The winners are asked to demonstrate excellence in terms of originality, innovation, value to the community, utility and long-term viability.

Tsinghua University and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) have agreed to a new open access (OA) publishing agreement under the ACM Open license framework. The Charlesworth Group provided essential local third-party representation to support the specific requirements of ACM and Tsinghua University.

ConTech 2022 will be a hybrid event taking place on the 29th & 30th November with the physical event once again at The Marriott Regent’s Park, London UK

Over 40 CRL affiliated institutions recently agreed to become founding institutional members of Policy Commons.  This level of financial commitment means that medium-size CRL institutions will receive substantial additional discounts, and Coherent unlocks complimentary access for over 70 small CRL institutions.

Wolters Kluwer, Health, a leading global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, and the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) have entered into a publishing agreement. ASN represents more than 20,000 kidney health professionals in 132 countries working to help people with kidney diseases and their families.