Industry trends

Partnership between Aries Systems and Ripeta aims to make publishing quality science easier for publishers and editors worldwide

Hundreds of STM journals and other publications are now available to medical communications professionals for licensing through CCC Marketplace

Integration of the serials subscription renewal process between EBSCONET® Subscription Management and Alma, ExLibris’ library service platform, will support mutual customers and improve staff internal workflow

Analysis of publisher's portfolio 'shows benefits for authors and research communities'

A new content partnership between ResearchGate and the International Union of Crystallography will facilitate the discovery of and access to new research in crystallography

To enhance the often challenging manuscript writing process, Paperpal has introduced a new Microsoft Word add-in that provides real-time writing assistance for researchers. The tool uses state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) and AI models to make grammar, punctuation, style and readability suggestions while the user writes, ensuring academics can deliver a high-quality research manuscript.

IOP Publishing (IOPP) has signed three new transformative agreements (TAs) that will accelerate open access (OA) publishing and extend access to high quality research in the United States (US). The 3-year read and publish agreements with Princeton University, the University of Central Florida and Connecticut College offer unlimited publishing in all IOPP hybrid and gold OA journals.  

AIP Publishing (AIPP) and 67 Bricks are pleased to announce their partnership to engage in a series of data-driven experiments around best practices in the field of scholarly publishing. These experiments are grounded in data exploration and will tackle an array of subject areas, from operational improvements to customer experience enhancements to potential new product development. 

Oxford University Press (OUP) has today announced the migration of its books content to Oxford Academic—the online platform for its academic research. The expansion of the platform to include books, as well as journals, will further the reach of academic resources from OUP and society partners. As it stands, more than 42,000 books and over 500,000 chapters have so far been uploaded to Oxford Academic, joining the 500 journals and approximately 3 million journal articles already hosted on the platform.
 

Springer Nature has announced a new pilot with American Journal Experts (AJE),* which will see its AI-driven editing services being made available to book authors and editors. It will enable authors to have their manuscripts improved by grammatical errors being corrected as well as improving phrasing and word choice. The service will allow them to spend less time preparing their work for publication and have more time doing the research that drives society forwards.