Support for early-career researchers
21 September 2022
Six university presses join forces to support early-career researchers from 2022 to 2025 with the OpenUP initiative
JISC
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Ground-breaking open research platform to launch
24 June 2022
Octopus aims to change the way research is published and improve its quality
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Jisc helps project to improve international research collaboration
15 June 2022
Consortium aims to bring a new level of security and transparency to UK research collaborations
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American Chemical Society and Jisc partner in OA deal
28 April 2022
Landmark transitional agreement will serve researchers in the UK across all fields of chemistry
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Elsevier and Jisc sign three-year agreement
23 March 2022
Deal 'recognises the significant investment the UK has already made in its transition to open access'
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Octopus platform ‘will change research culture’
25 August 2021
Funding has been agreed to help develop a ground-breaking global publishing service
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Transformational OA agreements: help or hindrance?
19 July 2021
Many say open access funding agreements will tip the balance of publishing output. But not everyone, reports Rebecca Pool
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Jisc strikes 156-university deal with NAS
8 July 2021
Two-year pilot deal provides Plan S-compliant route for UK consortium
Helping universities 'improve resilience'
10 June 2021
Study on changing role of research libraries to be revealed at Jisc and CNI leader conference
University of Cambridge is a subscriber
UK deal allows evaluation of journal agreements
17 May 2021
Nationwide agreement will allow universities to assess the value of the journal subscriptions they hold with publishers
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Antonia Seymour, chief executive at IOP Publishing, and Andrew Barker, director of library services and learning development at Lancaster University, talk about hybrid working and re-thinking how we work
David Stuart writes: are new ways of measuring research are providing a more realistic picture of scholarly communication?
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Siân Harris looks at what role cloud-based services play in libraries today, their benefits and limitations and what challenges remain
Charlie Rapple
Kudos co-founder Charlie Rapple explains her passion for accelerating the dissemination – and impact – of science
Sowmya Swaminathan
Sowmya Swaminathan discusses the implications for publishers in helping to foster open research practices
Nandita Quaderi
Nandita Quaderi explains how Covid-19 continues to affect the citation network, and introduces a new kind of citation distortion
Oluchi Ojinamma Okere
Oluchi Ojinamma Okere outlines how researchers in sub-Saharan countries are being hamstrung by economics
Helen Lippell
Helen Lippell explains why organisations should learn more about taxonomies, ontologies and metadata - and describes her love of a good quiz
Mark Hahnel
Figshare founder Mark Hahnel describes the company's beginnings and raison d’être – and his wider hopes for scholarly communications
Miriam Maus
If scientists are successful, we are successful, writes Miriam Maus, publishing director at IOP Publishing
