scite, a platform for discovering and evaluating scientific articles, and Wiley have partnered to launch Smart Citations on selected Wiley journals. The one-year pilot includes 121 journals published by Wiley.
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The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has made its new draft Recommended Practice for Content Platform Migrations available for public comment. The result of nearly two years of collaboration between the librarians, publishers, and content platform providers on the Content Platform Migrations Working Group, this Recommended Practice provides a standard process and recommendations to improve communication between all parties involved before, during, and after migration.
Report emphasizes diversity and sustainable pathways for diamond Open Access
The 73rd Frankfurter Buchmesse is being supported by funds from the German government’s NEUSTART KULTUR programme. This assistance is being passed along to exhibitors, which means they will benefit from significantly lower fees for exhibition stands.
T&F has announced a new Books Data Sharing Policy which, from April 2021, encourages authors of all new Routledge and CRC Press books and chapters to share and make data available according to FAIR principles.
Canadian Science Publishing, The Company of Biologists, Royal Society, Elsevier, SPIE
A new agreement has been announced providing for a broad set of higher education institutions, across the South Central and Southwest Regions of the United States, to support open access library infrastructure at a substantial discount.
The National Centre is hosted by the State Scientific Institution
"Ivan Fedorov Book Chamber of Ukraine”.
In a translation project led by CAST and published by EDP Sciences, the Blue Book aims to provide a comprehensive picture of China’s science, technology, and medical (STM) journals and papers. (£)
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Banipal, the magazine of contemporary Arab literature in English translation, has partnered with digital publishing specialists Exact Editions to launch a digital edition of its Spanish-language counterpart, Revista Banipal de literatura árabe moderna.