June 1, 2022 by Gary Price
BMJ Joins STM Integrity Hub, an Industry Initiative to Protect Research Integrity LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries ) Publishes 2021-2022 Annual Report Open Access Content Up 40% Across Springer Nature’s Transformative Journals (via Springer Nature) Video Recording: CAUT Panel Discussion: Academic Publishing, Data Surveillance and Human Rights (via Canadian Association of University Teachers)
May 11, 2022 by Gary Price
From a Springer Nature Announcement: Springer Nature has signed its largest institutional OA book deal with the Max Planck Society through the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL). The agreement covers all Springer Nature book imprints, across a broad range of disciplines, providing OA funding to affiliated authors from over 80 Max Planck Institutes. This agreement […]
April 20, 2022 by Gary Price
From Springer Nature: Springer Nature and Clarivate share a commitment to building an inclusive research culture and championing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the communities they serve, supporting Sustainable Development Goal 10 aimed at reducing inequalities. The organisations have agreed a process which will see the names of twenty one journals in Springer Nature’s […]
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April 12, 2022 by Gary Price
From a Joint Announcement: Springer Nature and Figshare have launched a free pilot to better support authors in making their data openly available. Authors submitting to a number of Nature research journals and Academic Journals will now be able to easily opt into data sharing, via Figshare, as part of one integrated submission process. The […]
April 7, 2022 by Gary Price
From Science: Since 2019, Anna Abalkina has been monitoring a website that offers an illicit way for scientists to burnish their CVs. The site, operated from Russia, openly offers to sell authorship slots on soon-to-be-published scientific papers, for fees ranging from several hundred dollars to nearly $5000. Abalkina, a sociologist at the Free University of […]
April 7, 2022 by Gary Price
The article linked below was recently published by Data Science Journal. Title Persistent Identification for Conferences Authors Julian Franken TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology Aliaksandr Birukou Springer Nature Kai Eckert Stuttgart Media University Wolfgang Fahl RWTH Aachen Christian Hauschke TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology Christoph Lange RWTH […]
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April 1, 2022 by Gary Price
Preservica Sets Out Its Commitments to New Charter for Digital Preservation Sustainability Research Data Alliance (RDA) Announces Launch of New Podcast, Data Streams Springer Nature Stops New Sales in Russia and Belarus Their Stories Should be Celebrated: Using AI to Deliver More Inclusive Biographical Content on Wikipedia (via Meta AI)
February 27, 2022 by Gary Price
Last Update: 11:30 A.M. Eastern (April 18, 2022) Statement by the President of the Ukrainian Library Association Mechanical Translation via Google Screen Cap of Mechanical Translation via Microsoft Translator Statements of Solidarity and Support (Latest Entry in Bold) ACS Publications Joins Other Publishers in Condemning Invasion of Ukraine American Historical Association: Historians Condemn Russian Invasion […]
February 23, 2022 by Gary Price
Academia.edu Announces $23 Million in Series D Funding Led by Tencent Jisc and OCLC Agreement to Provide Libraries With Improved Access to Cataloguing Services and Records PLOS Announces New Publishing Agreement With the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries Springer Nature Announces New or Renewed Transformative Agreements in Austria, Italy, and Netherlands Upcoming Event (March 8, […]
February 21, 2022 by Gary Price
From Springer Nature: Springer Nature and RWTH Aachen University’s Cluster of Excellence Internet of Production have created a new publishing format called Crosstracts to address two research challenges. It can often take a long time for research results to be published and so are not getting back to the lecture hall fast enough. Moreover, opportunities […]