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Springer Nature’s fully OA portfolio 'delivers greater benefits'
Analysis of publisher's portfolio 'shows benefits for authors and research communities'
ResearchGate and the IUCr announce content partnership
A new content partnership between ResearchGate and the International Union of Crystallography will facilitate the discovery of and access to new research in crystallography
Optimise your academic writing with new AI tool for researchers
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 extends open access publishing with three transformative agreements
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 and 67 Bricks announce new partnership agreement
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 unlocks next step in digital-first publisher journey
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 expands AI-driven digital editing services
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.
IOP Publishing offers authors discounted open access publishing
The new policy is part of society publisher’s commitment to increase global equity and inclusion in open access publishing.
ConTech.Live release ConTech 2021 recordings
Last November ConTech 2021 successfully focused on the intersection of content, technology and chaos. The conference delivered thought leadership, practical tools, case studies and stories of successful transformation. All these sessions are available and can be viewed on the ConTech.Live website.
Wolters Kluwer expands commitment to open science
To support the evolution of medical publishing toward higher velocity exchange of scientific findings, Wolters Kluwer, Health announced two key additions to the
COUNTER announces community consultation
First released in 2017, Release 5 of the COUNTER Code of Practice (CoP) incorporates the concept of continuous maintenance
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James Gray assesses the situation and how it can be addressed
Matt Balara explains how an established publisher, De Gruyter, completed an extraordinary transformation
From rapid disease information to a way to promote and share regional knowledge in multiple languages, preprints have come into their own in recent years. Siân Harris finds out more
Céline Richard explains what the Large Hadron Collider has taught us about the importance of open access research
Ivy Cavendish tells the inspirational tale behind the formation of a writing tool for researchers, TooWrite
There is a continuing need for the sorts of insights and judgements that only a person can bring, writes David Stuart
COUNTER reports have an integral role to play in our wider scholarly communication system, writes Tasha Mellins-Cohen
Emerald Publishing CEO Tony Roche talks of his career in scholarly publishing and a love of eastern cuisine
Alicia Wise, CLOCKSS executive director, reflects on her career and explains the importance of robustly preserving academic resources
Heather Staines sums up proceedings at this year's Researcher to Reader conference