Cogent OA, an open access publisher backed by the Taylor & Francis Group, has launched Freedom APCs, an experimental new model designed to help match article publishing charges (APCs) to an author's ability to pay
Following a collaboration with Universite Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France, Springer has announce the release of SciDetect, a software program that automatically checks for fake scientific papers
The Wellcome Trust and Digital Science have introduced a 'contributor role taxonomy' to provide a high-level classification of the roles performed by individuals in the work leading to published academic research
Behind the headlines are exciting initiatives that have the potential to not just improve peer review, but optimise it for 21st century scholarship, says Eric Hall
RCN Publishing has announced that it has changed its name to RCNi. The organisation says the new brand reflects more accurately its continued evolution towards developing diverse online tools and products
Palgrave Macmillan has announced that for the month of March 2015 it will be offering free online access to its full journals portfolio
The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a collaboration with the Republic of Latvia’s Ministry of Education and Science
Bloomsbury Journals, comprising 25 titles in arts and humanities and 21 titles in law, is to join the Routledge publishing program
Digital Science, a division of Macmillan Science & Education, has launched a publisher blog called [i]Perspectives[/i], aiming to offer fresh insights on scholarly communication focused on the publisher arena
Overleaf has announced a partnership with The Genetics Society of America
