The digital library will include audiobooks, e-books as well as magazines. More than 200 municipalities have joined the endeavour, and the service is accessible to 85 percent of people in Finland.
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BIMM University has chosen Figshare to support the sharing, showcasing and management of its non-traditional research outputs (NTROs).
Elsevier and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), have announced the results of their collaboration to explore the emerging concept of a ‘4th generation university’: global universities that are fully integrated in their local innovation ecosystem with the aim of tackling worldwide societal challenges and driving regional economic growth.
The report draws on the results of extensive research conducted across 18 months including a literature review of economic and financial aspects of institutional publishing, quantitative surveys, focus groups, and interviews. Ten EIFL partner countries (Albania, Estonia, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia and Ukraine) took part in the survey and one (Serbia) was also involved in focus groups.
In total, 7 Trans Tech Publications journals are included in the partnership, including all their fully open access titles and a leading hybrid title. All version-of-record article content, including archive content and new articles, will be available to ResearchGate’s 25m+ researcher members – boosting readership and engagement, and enabling Trans Tech Publications to connect with new audiences of highly relevant authors.
Scholastica announces the release of a new free “Peer Review System Migration Toolkit” to help journal publishers and editors navigate the
process of adopting or changing peer review software.
F1000 and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced plans to launch a new verified preprint platform that will enable the rapid availability of new findings and promote research integrity.
UKRI, in partnership with the Association of Learned Society Publishers (ALPSP), the British Academy, and the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), has commissioned a project from Information Power. The project is to support book publishers in their transition to sustainable open access models, with a particular focus on learned society, subject association, and smaller specialist publishers.
Recurring report from KGL Consulting compares editorial compensation data from dozens of journals across a broad range of disciplines
ResearchGate and Optica have announced that all Optica PublishingGroup’s wholly owned subscription and open access journalsare now available through ResearchGate’s innovative Journal Home offering.