Norway renews Frontiers national open access agreement
Some 36 Norwegian institutions and research centres will benefit from the publishing deal
Publishing models
cOAlition S to close Journal Comparison Service
Funders "could have done more to encourage its uptake by both publishers and librarians"
MIT Press’s Direct to Open reaches annual funding goal
Publisher will open access to 80 new monographs and edited book collections under new framework
American Society for Microbiology in new European partnership
Deal with largest virology society in Europe aims to broaden the reach of virology research
Frontiers expands partnership with World Economic Forum
Agreement offers researchers "further opportunities to integrate their research findings into the Forum's initiatives"
Lancaster University Library launches open access journal hosting service
Free platform supports publication types including peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and other publications
Linked data expertise for libraries
Ashleigh Faith discusses data quality for discoverability, analytics and AI using linked data ontologies
Springer Nature launches new AI tool
Developed with the community, tool is aimed at helping streamline integrity and ethics checks
Enhancement to Base Inventory of Research Databases
New function offers a "unique portal to the entire realm of scholarly publishing"
When research met policy – a perfect match online
Alex Freeman, founder of Octopus.ac, explains the platform's new feature integrating government ‘areas of research interest’
Understand and demonstrate your library’s value
Libraries are the beating heart of communities – yet far too often their value is questioned, write Michelle Bond and Lou Peck
OASPA recommendations to tackle inequity in OA publishing
Recommended practices 'can mitigate exclusion and make an inequitable system less harmful'