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Zhejiang University Press (ZUP) and the open science publisher Frontiers announce their official partnership.
Elsevier has announced that it has acquired Osmosis, a US-based visual learning platform that aims to simplify the complex learning journey for millions of current and future healthcare professionals and their patients around the world.
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) today announced publication of its updated Access & License Indicators (ALI) Recommended Practice (NISO RP-22-2021). Originally published in 2015, this Recommended Practice defines the metadata indicators used to indicate free-to-read content, as well as for linking to license terms for the use/re-use of that content.
Wiley today announced the acquisition of Knowledge Unlatched, a provider of online open access solutions.
The agreement, which covers the period of 2021-2023, provides access to nearly all of AIP Publishing’s peer-reviewed, hybrid journals to more than 30 of Jisc’s consortium partners, including many of the UK’s most prestigious institutions of higher education.
The agreement, which expands on a previous pilot between Wiley and VIVA, will allow researchers at 55 participating Virginia institutions the ability to publish accepted articles open access in all of Wiley’s fully gold and hybrid open access journals, as well as provide access to all subscription content.
Global giants Springer Nature, De Gruyter and Taylor & Francis join Wiley, Elsevier and SAGE Publishing to sign up to the Royal Society of Chemistry’s commitment for equality in publishing
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced the appointment of Kathleen H. Canul as the ACS Publications’ ombudsperson. Her appointment fulfills a crucial element of ACS’ commitment to confronting racism and discrimination within the ACS journals program and strengthens efforts to increase diversity throughout the author and reviewer communities.
Rockefeller University Press has announced a partnership with OA Switchboard, which aims to make it easier for institutions to manage read-and-publish deals with multiple publishers.
Under the opt-in agreement, universities in Australia and New Zealand may subscribe to any De Gruyter eJournal package in 2022. Authors affiliated with participating institutions may publish an uncapped number of accepted articles in Open Access in any of the eligible hybrid journals listed in their institution’s subscribed package during 2022 at no additional cost. Authors may also publish articles in any De Gruyter’s fully open gold journals at a discount.