Research impact

Deal will "make publishing workflows more efficient while maintaining the high standards of quality and integrity"

Initial cohort includes Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in the US and France's École Normale Supérieure (ENS)

Sole scientific publisher joins a group of members that includes Nvidia, AWS, Microsoft, IBM and AMD

Organisers say they are particularly keen to receive proposals from researchers, editors, funders and librarians

Agreements "are the engine driving whole-journal flips and taking the scholarly record into the open, permanently"

Deal will strengthen ability to serve communities by combining its established publishing and convening activities

Agreement will open article submissions to researchers from universities and research institutions across Japan

Initiative aims to help institutions move past digitisation projects and towards long-term discovery, access, and impact

Move represents a significant step towards strengthening Canada's community-owned scholarly infrastructure