Open science is important, but it is also hard. Unfortunately, 'hard' has often meant that scientific quality checks are both slow and inadequate, falling in an unsatisfactory middle ground between two opposing goals
Cambridge University Press has launched a new publishing model to provide an outlet for world-class research and writing that sits outside the traditional formats of book or journal article
Libraries are getting access to thousands of BBC academic titles following an expanded agreement between ProQuest and BBC Learning
IntechOpen has become the first fully open access book publisher to implement Altmetric Badges for Books
A partnership between the Next Einstein Forum and Elsevier will see the creation of a pan-African, peer-reviewed, open access publishing journal
The re-launched Emerald Publishing Journal – Information and Learning Science – will be co-edited by two leading scholars, Dr Samuel Kai Wah Chu and Dr Rebecca B. Reynolds
IOP Publishing has launched three high-impact open access journals
SAGE Publishing has launched a new journal focused on Chinese writing systems in partnership with the Center for the Study and Application of Chinese Characters
Learned society owned publisher EDP Sciences has announced the launch of a new multi- and inter-disciplinary open access journal: 4open
Remarq, the new editorial engagement and researcher collaboration tool from RedLink, is now live on several IOP Publishing journals
Faye Holst
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
Paul Stokes
Deciding to do nothing about preservation could be a disaster, says Paul Stokes
Julia Peregudova
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.
