IOI receives $1M from the Mellon Foundation to scale the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs)
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Edanz have announced the acquisition of Scribendi, an ISO 9001:2015-certified online editing and proofreading company. This strategic merger brings together two industry leaders, creating a global powerhouse in scientific editing and language services.
The Publishers Association has released its new ‘A Year in Publishing’ summary statistics. These once again show growth for the sector, with total sales for the UK’s publishing industry reaching £6.9 billion- up 4% from 2021. 669 million physical books were also sold last year. This is the highest overall level ever recorded.
Academics from 107 low- and middle-income countries will be able to publish their research open access in Cambridge journals at no cost to them.
STM Solutions, the operational arm of STM, announced the release of the MVP (minimal viable product) of a paper mill detection tool as part of the STM Integrity Hub. It is a stand-alone web application where submitted journal manuscripts can be uploaded and checked for a variety of signals indicative of paper mills.
Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House all sued the nonprofit after it offered a National Emergency Library, a temporary book collection created from thousands of e-books that ran from March 24, 2020, to June 16, 2020. Here is a round up of the views following the verdict.
Dozens of scientific journals – including almost 20 titles from the open access publisher Hindawi – have been delisted from the Web of Science in the biggest purge of publications from one of academia’s main guides for trusted titles. (Snipped from Times Higher)
EMBO Press has chosen Springer Nature to be their new publishing partner from 1 January 2024. Authors who publish in EMBO Press journals will benefit from the global reach of Springer Nature’s leading journals.
Collaboration seeks to boost efficiencies, improve the quality and integrity of scientific outputs, and enhance the author and reviewer experience
ResearchGate and The Royal Society have expanded the partnership that sees all articles from the Royal Society’s ten-journal portfolio syndicated directly to ResearchGate.