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Skilltype, the talent management platform for libraries, announces that it has raised $1.75M to support its aim of future-proofing libraries globally.
With this move to OA the journals will no longer charge subscription fees and will instead be supported by Article Processing Charges (APCs), with the infrastructure to ensure that authors continue to face no financial barrier to publishing their science in the RAS journals.
Three OA publishing initiatives to be fully funded through 2022 pilot scheme that aims to boost smaller publishers and improve decision-making. 
Open letter to digital content and software suppliers cites ‘perfect storm’ of declining resources and increasing demands
In May 2022, Emerald Publishing announced it had partnered with Knowledge Unlatched (KU) to create and promote an open access eBook collection - but having run into obstacles the plans have been shelved.
Publisher customers subscribing to the ChronosHub platform can now access the new agreement management feature, where agreement information can be maintained.
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals requires greater effort to ensure research findings are summarised and interpreted for wider audiences.
A critical aspect leading to the decision was the precision with which PLOS could match accepted papers to institutional funding under its Community Action Publishing (CAP) program.
Big Ten Academic Alliance libraries have reached an agreement for OA Switchboard to benefit from the standardized metadata protocol and shared infrastructure provided by this community-led intermediary initiative.
Based in Germany, metaphacts is a knowledge graph and decision intelligence software company. Its main product metaphactory is a platform that supports customers in accelerating their adoption of knowledge graphs and driving knowledge democratization.