SAGE Publishing founder and owner Sara Miller McCune has signed over her voting shares and control of the company to the independent SAGE-SMM Trust. The move takes an irrevocable step towards her long-standing estate plan goal of ensuring SAGE remains an independent company focused on its mission to build bridges to knowledge through educational and research publishing.
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De Gruyter will host and distribute Lynne Rienner’s complete frontlist, as well as backlist encompassing more than 1,500 titles. De Gruyter will also digitize previously out of print titles, which will be available exclusively through degruyter.com.
Springer Nature has become the first publisher to immediately publish one million gold open access (OA) primary research and review articles - this means that 25% of all articles Springer Nature has published since 2005 are gold OA. To celebrate this the publisher has announced it will fund the planting of 10,000 trees – one for every employee - over the next year, in the Khasi Hills in Northeast India.
The two parties jointly promote content and service, and provide systematic and intelligent services for the publication, dissemination, reading, sharing, purchase and management of international academic resources.
The Cambridge University Press Annual Report and Cambridge Assessment Annual Review are both now available online.
The Copyright Clearance Center announces that it has surpassed 1,000 institutions and funders on its RightsLink for Scientific Communications (RLSC) platform.
Levels of COVID-19 research data sharing have remained low during the pandemic, and preprinting of research on the virus has been lower than two initiatives tried to ensure it would be. This is according to a new report that examines the effectiveness of initiatives taken by players in the research ecosystem to promote sharing of COVID-19 research by stepping up open science approaches.
eLife and PREreview are working with AfricArXiv, Eider Africa and the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) on a new peer-review training programme for early to mid-career researchers in Africa. The course aims to raise awareness around preprints and foster the participation of African researchers in peer review, especially the open review of preprints.
Clarivate has completed the acquisition of ProQuest "to fuel scientific discovery, knowledge sharing and accelerate innovation into the future."
The Publish and Read model will enable researchers of 86 Max Planck Institutes in Germany to publish any article accepted for publication in the journals of the Society Open Access, without having to pay Article Processing Charges (APCs).