The University of Sussex has successfully integrated Figshare and Symplectic Elements from Digital Science’ to create an interoperable research information and data management solution.
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cOAlition S, in partnership with Jisc and PLOS, has announced the establishment of a multi-stakeholder working group, tasked to identify business models and arrangements that enable equitable participation in knowledge-sharing.
The unique numerical identifier system applied to organizations in the scholarly communications sector enhances data quality and promotes open access publishing.
A group of major textbook publishers on Thursday sued file-sharing service Library Genesis in Manhattan federal court for what they described as copyright infringement on a "staggering" scale. (Reuters)
ACS and Elsevier have agreed to a legal settlement with ResearchGate that ensures copyright-compliant sharing of research articles published with ACS or Elsevier on the ResearchGate site. The lawsuits pending against ResearchGate in Germany and the United States are now resolved.
Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) has received a grant of USD $299,454 from the National Science Foundation to investigate “reasonable costs” for public access to United States federally funded research and scientific data.
The University of South Carolina Press and University Libraries are embarking on a new collaborative venture: Open Carolina, an open-access publishing platform.
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This integration further strengthens the Hub's capability to pinpoint potentially fraudulent manuscripts at the time of submission.
This collaboration underscores the commitment of both organizations to strengthen Open Access and democratize access to scholarly research.