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Reviewer Credits, the Berlin-based network for peer reviewers and publishing integrity hub, is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Asian Council of Science Editors (ACSE). Reviewer Credits has joined ACSE as a Corporate Member, and the partners will collaborate to provide training, recognition, and visibility of peer review to ACSE’s growing network of editors, reviewers, and scholars across Asia.

Sage continues to build its business portfolio by acquiring titles in accounting, finance, business, and marketing from Textbook Media Press, a publisher of digital and print higher education textbooks.  

Springer Nature has launched a new AI-driven tool to help editors and peer reviewers by automating a number of editorial quality checks and alerting editors to potentially unsuitable manuscripts so that they can be held back from peer review.

Springer Nature has launched a new AI-driven tool to help editors and peer reviewers by automating a number of editorial quality checks and alerting editors to potentially unsuitable manuscripts so that they can be held back from peer review.

‘AI Talks with Bone & Joint’ is a new podcast that will turn ground-breaking papers from the journals Bone & Joint Open, Bone & Joint Research and Bone & Joint 360 into bitesize audio summaries. This new service will give their audience a new way to keep up-to-date with the latest articles while multitasking, enabling them to discover which content they may wish to dive into further and in more detail.

Silverchair announced today a partnership with CSIRO Publishing to host their rich repository of over 120,000 articles and extensive book collection. CSIRO Publishing is Australia's leading science publisher of books, journals and magazines. Their mission is to enhance the impact of science by communicating the outcomes of research, empowering decision makers, and enriching the lives of their readers. 

New data released by Springer Nature shows the immediate impact Transformative Agreements (TA) have on driving global open access (OA) output, with some countries seeing increases in OA uptake of up to 78% in the first year of their TA.  

University Libraries has entered into a new “read and publish” agreement with the Royal Society of Chemistry, beginning Jan. 1. In addition to subscription access to the complete package of RSC journals, the agreement provides for Open Access publishing in RSC journals by corresponding authors affiliated with any NU campus, at no cost to themselves. 

ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and Sage, a global academic publisher of books, journals, and a growing suite of library products and services, has announced a renewal of their Journal Home partnership. The renewed agreement will see a diverse selection of Sage’s open access and an addition of hybrid journals accessible through Journal Home, growing visibility and engagement through ResearchGate’s 25m+ active researcher members globally

Reviewer Credits, the Berlin-based network for peer reviewers and publishing integrity hub, is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Asian Council of Science Editors (ACSE). Reviewer Credits has joined ACSE as a Corporate Member, and the partners will collaborate to provide training, recognition, and visibility of peer review to ACSE’s growing network of editors, reviewers, and scholars across Asia.

New data released by Springer Nature shows the immediate impact Transformative Agreements (TA) have on driving global open access (OA) output, with some countries seeing increases in OA uptake of up to 78% in the first year of their TA.  

As part of its ongoing efforts to make Open Access (OA) publishing more equitable, the Microbiology Society is pleased to announce a new Article Processing Charge (APC) waiver agreement with Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL). The agreement, commencing in January 2025, will cover unlimited fee-free OA publishing in all Society titles for researchers across 33 developing and transition economy countries and territories.

Springer Nature announced that it has founded a Latin American Research Advisory Council (LARAC) to better support and collaborate with researchers in the region. This joins the publisher’s existing research advisory councils in Africa (ARAC), Europe (ERAC), Japan (JRAF), Korea (KRAF), and the United States (USRAC).

Karger Publishers extended the partnership with the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), providing access to the entire Karger Journal Collection for researchers from 260 Brazilian institutions.

Rebecca has had a long and successful career in leadership roles across the public service and university sector. From 2019 to 2023 she was Chief Executive of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), where she led the organisation through the pandemic, implementing large scale innovation to improve performance and support digital transformation.