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REF 2021: UK university research ‘world-leading’
12 May 2022
The latest Research Excellence Framework (REF), detailing the results of a UK-wide assessment of university research, has been published.
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Bone & Joint Publishing signs partnership deal with 67 Bricks
10 May 2022
The partnership will facilitate core user-facing digital products, including a new journal content delivery platform, and develop and enhance the parties’ technical capabilities.
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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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Frontiers acquires Oncology Reviews journal
11 April 2022
Deal marks firm's first journal acquisition since its foundation in 2007
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cOAlition S and ALPSP publish OA toolkit
05 April 2022
Smaller independent publishers, libraries, and consortia can now more easily enter into open access agreements
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Central European researchers 'double global share since EU accession'
30 March 2022
Report shows 11 countries have shown 'strong, consistent growth in research output' over past 30 years
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GetFTR now supports half of global research output
29 March 2022
Free service enables faster access for researchers to published journal articles
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U.S academic leaders join forces for open scholarship
29 March 2022
Initiative represents 'the most promising, ambitious attempt to align higher education practices with open scholarship values'
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Switzerland and Frontiers reach national open access agreement
24 March 2022
Authors from 18 institutions, including hospitals, now able to publish in portfolio of 146 journals
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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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De Gruyter wins Best Publisher UX Award 2022
23 March 2022
Identity and access management specialist Open Athens reveals winner at 2022 Access Lab event
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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
