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’
22 February 2021
Study finds 83 per cent of researchers prefer the article version of record over the accepted manuscript and preprint
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R2R conversation goes online
12 February 2021
Organisers of Researcher to Reader event planning ‘live and continuous’ conference for 2021
BMJ and Jisc collaborate to support open access publishing
09 February 2021
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
02 February 2021
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
25 January 2021
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
21 January 2021
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
20 January 2021
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
20 January 2021
Covid-19 research papers account for around 30 per cent of the Altmetric Top 100 list, released today (20 January)
Wiley announces Hindawi acquisition
05 January 2021
Wiley says the purchase adds 'quality, scale and growth to the company’s open access publishing program'
Physics societies unite in support of OA
15 December 2020
Major physics societies have joined forces to show their commitment to open access for physics research
Chorus deal 'enhances open research audit process'
10 December 2020
Chorus, the non-profit membership organisation, is now using Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) technology
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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.
