Knowledge Unlatched (KU) has shared the results of its 2023 pledging round, which ended in December 2023 and saw hundreds of institutions worldwide pledge support for Open Access (OA) book and journal collections offered by KU and its publishing partners.
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UCL Profiles (Profiles) is a publicly accessible search and discovery platform for UCL staff and doctoral researchers. It replaces UCL’s previous system, IRIS.
A significant milestone in its OA history, BMGF will push for preprints and advocate that those are reviewed. Authors are free to choose where their manuscripts end up.
ASM Journals has announced that it has joined the OA Switchboard community to simplify the reporting on and sharing of open access journal information.
Researcher.Life, an integrated ecosystem of tools and services that streamline a researcher’s journey, has announced a collaboration with Scholarly Intelligence, a platform which supports various stakeholders in the scholarly communications space.
The University of Aberdeen and the University of Michigan have come together to launch a new trans-Atlantic publishing partnership that will amplify the reach of Aberdeen's boundary-breaking research.
With over twenty-five years’ experience of working with publishers, librarians and consortia, Suweco’s expertise and local knowledge will support librarians to enable researchers in the region to publish their work Open Access with our Read & Publish initiative.
As libraries and vendors navigate the rapidly changing technological and legal landscape of AI, ICOLC supports its member consortia in their efforts to ensure library user rights are maintained in alignment with organizational interests and values. ICOLC recognizes that such rights are imperative for supporting:
- Digital transformation in research
- Equitable access to information
- The open access transition in scholarly communication
In a first for Bloomsbury Publishing they have announced a multi-year partnership with Jessica Kingsley Publishers (JKP) to deliver the Jessica Kingsley Publishers Library to academic institutions worldwide.
PeerJ is best known for its multidisciplinary flagship title PeerJ Life & Environment serving the Biological, Medical and Environmental Sciences and PeerJ Computer Science (covering all areas of computer science, including AI, quantum, and robotics). In addition, PeerJ offers five titles in the Chemical Sciences, meaning that in total Taylor & Francis will welcome seven new journals to its open research program.