Kortext, the UK digital textbook platform, in conjunction with Jisc, the UK’s not for profit education and research services provider, is launching a nationwide programme to ensure all 2.4m university students and 217K academic staff have access to key learning resources
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Covid-19; a message to our readers and commercial partners
17 March 2020
We are still open for business! As of today, everyone at Europa Science – publisher of Research Information – has been advised to work at home, but we are committed to keeping our publications running
UKSG meeting cancelled amid further reaction to health crisis
16 March 2020
The scholarly communications industry continues to react to the health crisis, in terms of practical measures to protect business and staff – as well as in making available research related to Covid-19
CISPC 2020 – call for papers
13 March 2020
Organisers of the CISPC 2020 event, to be held in central London in November, have issued a call for papers
Jisc supports Subscribe to Open model
11 March 2020
Jisc has announced its support for the global initiative ‘Subscribe to Open’ developed by the non-profit publisher Annual Reviews
Covid-19 claims another conference – Redux 2020
06 March 2020
The Redux Conference 2020 is moving to the summer and will become an open, online event called Redux Online
London Book Fair cancelled
04 March 2020
Reed Exhibitions has announced that The London Book Fair 2020, scheduled to take place at Olympia, London, from 10 to 12 March will be cancelled following the escalation of COVID-19 Coronavirus in Europe
Susana Arrechea
Photo: Alison Bert
Award ‘encourages me to keep doing research in Guatemala’
19 February 2020
Susana Arrechea (pictured) is one of five researchers who are winners of the 2020 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early-Career Women Scientists in the Developing World
First US-based UP signs OA agreement for UK HE
19 February 2020
Research and education not-for-profit Jisc has signed the first transitional agreement with a US–based university press
Reactions to UKRI consultation announcement
14 February 2020
There has been a mixed, but largely positive, reaction to the UKRI's consultation on open access policy
Help us to shape CISPC 2020!
06 February 2020
Following the success of our 2019 event, the Research Information team is planning the agenda for its 2020 Challenges in the Scholarly Publishing Cycle conference
Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
OA transparency report launched at Berlin conference
14 January 2020
An independent report aiming to improve the transparency of open access (OA) prices and services is calling for a customer-centric, collaborative and pragmatic approach to the issue
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Single sign-on provider OpenAthens announced the winner of its inaugural best publisher user experience (UX) award for 2020 earlier this year
As scholarly publishing communities search for the meaning behind metrics, the need for context is becoming crystal clear, reports Rebecca Pool
In February 160 attendees gathered in London at BMA House for the Fifth Researcher to Reader Conference. Heather Staines reports
Tamir Borensztajn describes attempts to support an open research infrastructure
Mark Carden ponders: does the Covid-19 pandemic mean that the world has changed forever and nothing will be the same again?
Kim Eggleton
Kim Eggleton wonders: how do we solve the problem of diversity in peer review?
Publishing organisations should look to adopt modular infrastructure and modular business models so they can experiment, writes Brian Cody
The pandemic has demonstrated the importance of open access and open science, writes Rossana Morriello
