Host nation Dubai withdraws their bid - the decision was communicated by the Emirates Library and Information Association who led the bid to support the development of the field and wider region. Read the IFLA announcement here.
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This new partnership provides opportunities to increase visibility and to expand their Read & Publish initiative throughout India.
Clarivate has announced it has established an Academia & Government Innovation Incubator. This will further accelerate its strategy to drive innovation, utilize artificial intelligence and introduce novel solutions for its academic users and customers.
F1000 has announced that it has been awarded a second contract for the ongoing technology and publishing services for Open Research Europe (ORE), the European Commission’s open research publishing venue for Horizon funded research and other eligible European Commission research programs in all subject areas.
The new Royal Society Open Access Equity scheme will help to eliminate the cost barrier to open access publication for researchers in eligible low and middle-income countries and territories.
Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) is partnering with arXiv, through the support of the Simons Foundation, to provide strategic advisory services to assist arXiv to remain operationally and financially viable, open-source, and user-centered with a robust governance system to support those aims.
ChronosHub is joining ACS as an independent subsidiary working alongside ACS Publications to enhance the publication experience for researchers.
Crossref have announced a long-term plan to deprecate the Open Funder Registry.
cOAlition S commissioned Information Power to explore how a globally fair pricing framework for academic publishing could be devised and implemented.
The Center for Scientific Integrity, the organisation behind the Retraction Watch blog and database, and Crossref announced today that the Retraction Watch database has been acquired by Crossref and made a public resource. An agreement between the two organisations will allow Retraction Watch to keep the data populated on an ongoing basis and always open, alongside publishers registering their retraction notices directly with Crossref.