Leading single sign-on provider OpenAthens has announced the finalists of its Best Publisher User Experience award for 2021
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Research ‘indicates increasing support for immediate gold OA’
Study finds 83 per cent of researchers prefer the article version of record over the accepted manuscript and preprint
R2R conversation goes online
Organisers of Researcher to Reader event planning ‘live and continuous’ conference for 2021
BMJ and Jisc collaborate to support open access publishing
A transitional agreement between the BMJ and Jisc has been hailed as a way to make UK research more accessible and sustainable
De Gruyter ‘changes entire business’ with 67 Bricks digital upgrade
De Gruyter has completed a digital transformation that it says has changed the 270-year-old publisher’s entire business
STM reasserts the importance of research data
The international publishers’ organisation STM has reaffirmed its commitment to promoting and supporting the wider sharing of research data with the establishment of a permanent research data program
Company of Biologists agrees new OA deal with Max Planck Digital Library
The Company of Biologists has announced a three-year read and publish open access agreement with the Max Planck Digital Library
Jisc and Springer Nature extend open access commitment
Jisc and Springer Nature have extended the UK Compact agreement by including the prestigious Academic Journals on nature.com
Covid, climate and racism papers dominate Altmetric Top 100
Covid-19 research papers account for around 30 per cent of the Altmetric Top 100 list, released today (20 January)
Wiley announces Hindawi acquisition
Wiley says the purchase adds 'quality, scale and growth to the company’s open access publishing program'
Physics societies unite in support of OA
Major physics societies have joined forces to show their commitment to open access for physics research
Chorus deal 'enhances open research audit process'
Chorus, the non-profit membership organisation, is now using Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) technology
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Two librarians from the National Library of Scotland share their experiences with Faye Holst
A crisis requires rapid decision-making, and keeping record of these decisions becomes more important, says William Kilbride
Deciding to do nothing about preservation could be a disaster, says Paul Stokes
The Russian Federation has declared 2021 as a year of Science and Technology – which predicts an increase in the sphere of scientific publications, writes Julia Peregudova
There is no easy answer, but some routes through the maze are becoming visible, writes Tasha Mellins-Cohen
More than 120 delegates from an array of institutions and countries around the world joined the organisers of CISPC for the first virtual version of the event.