SPARC Europe’s new strategy continues to strive to make Open research and education the default for the Higher Education community, research, education, industry, and society as a whole.
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The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the publication of its Recommended Practice, RP-31-2021, Reproducibility Badging and Definitions.
The collaboration will drive open access research through a simplified and improved experience for authors, institutions, consortia, and funders.
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) announces new functionality in RightsLink® for Scientific Communications (RLSC), its scholarly communications workflow solution. RLSC now can inform authors of available OA publication funding throughout the manuscript lifecycle, starting with submission.
SPIE, Brill, Berghahn Books and Elsevier announce new deals.
Central European University (CEU) Press, in partnership with COPIM, announces that their Opening the Future initiative is now fully live, and member access to the programme’s curated backlist of books is available through Project MUSE.
Springer Nature Group has signed up to The Valuable 500, a global movement working to put disability inclusion on the business leadership agenda, marking another step in the development of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) strategy.
EMS Press has announced that all 10 of its Subscribe To Open (S2O) journals will become open access for 2021, including its flagship publication Journal of the European Mathematical Society.
The participants from the Subscribe to Open (S2O) Community of Practice announce the launch a forum for publishers, libraries, and funders as well as others with an interest in this model, to share their experiences and to establish definitions and boundaries for S2O approaches.
Taylor & Francis has signed the Sustainable Development Goals Publishers Compact, a pledge which features 10 action points to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.