Sven Fund, CEO of Knowledge Unlatched, Berlin, examines progress made so far towards open access publishing for scholarly books and suggests the best way forward will be by increasing institutional funding.
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Editorial
Company news
The University of Huddersfield Press is the first university press to officially launch on the new Janeway publishing platform.
3 December 2018
Sage Publishing supports extended ORCID mandate
SAGE Publishing supports better recognition for researchers through extended ORCID mandate.
29 November 2019
Bloomsbury Publishing and Cornell University partner on AI project
Cornell University Researchers and Bloomsbury Publishing Plc are partnering to assess the benefits of using artificial intelligence to enhance and improve the speed and quality of manual indexing to improve trend forecasting for fashion.
Product news
27 November 2018
Scholarly publishing tech provider, HighWire [https://www.highwirepress.com/], has partnered with computational reproducibility platform, Code Ocean [https://codeocean.com/], to enable authors of academic articles to easily publish and share code associated with their research.
Library news
29 November 2018
The National Library of Luxembourg [https://bnl.public.lu/fr.html], la Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg, joined the Digital Preservation Coalition [https://www.dpconline.org/] (DPC) during November, becoming the Coalition’s newest Full Member.
Journal news
SAGE Publishing will begin publishing the Journal of Modern European History, an established quarterly journal, from February 2019.
Bristol University Press and Policy Press have announced that four journals will be joining their lists from 2019.
The IET has launched a new journal, 'IET Cyber-systems and Robotics', in partnership with Zhejiang University and Zhejiang University Press in China.
Resources
An electronic version of Dragan Klaic's Resetting the Stage (2012) is now available as a free download. Published by Intellect the book is available in PDF format.