It is anticipated that SCURL HEIs will develop strategy, underpinned by our position, to facilitate the widest possible access to research.
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Industry news
The research funders The Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas and Vinnova have made a strategic decision to jointly finance publication by publishers that only publish completely open access journals.
This new service will contain original content from FASEB’s Science Research Conferences, providing scientists around the globe with on-demand access to the latest research findings in the biological and biomedical sciences.
Springer Nature and Slimmer AI have been working together since 2015. Using Slimmer AI’s advanced software that leverages emerging technology, the partnership has created AI tools to speed up and improve the publishing process.
Resources
As part of its celebration of International Open Access Week, University of Kentucky Libraries is spotlighting UKnowledge, its open access institutional repository that makes research from all disciplines available to a national and global audience.
Coherent Digital announced World Governments. The new database captures and enriches reports and other items of research interest from more than 150 governments around the world.
Cornell Tech has announced a total of more than $10 million in gifts and grants from the Simons Foundation and the National Science Foundation, respectively, to support arXiv, a free distribution service and open-access archive for scholarly articles.
People
Changes at CCC, Digital Science, SirsiDynix and The Royal Society.