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Earlier this year, The Company of Biologists announced a new biodiversity initiative – The Forest of Biologists – through which they’re planting and protecting trees on behalf of the communities that surround their journals: Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms, and Biology Open. As part of this initiative, a new tree has been planted in the Young People’s Forest at Mead in Derbyshire for each Research Article and Review article published in the journals. And to acknowledge the efforts of peer reviewers, they’re helping to protect the trees in a piece of ancient woodland at Great Knott Wood in the Lake District National Park, overlooking Lake Windermere.

We're introducing designated categories for Trustees. Tasha Mellins-Cohen details the changes and the positive impact we hope they will have.

Digital Science has announced it has fully acquired the AI-based academic language service Writefull, which assists users worldwide with all aspects of their scholarly writing.

As part of this new partnership, 20 Pensoft journals will now have their content automatically added to ResearchGate upon publication to benefit from enhanced visibility and discoverability through ResearchGate’s Journal Home offering.

ACS is the latest publisher to integrate GetFTR at the article reference level. This means GetFTR indicators will signpost researchers to the content they are entitled to read, directly from the references at the end of ACS articles.

Cadmore Media has announced its partnership with the American Urological Association (AUA), to expand its clinical content offering through a series of multimedia initiatives.

ResearchGate and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) have announced a new partnership that will see all AAAS Science Partner Journals benefit from enhanced visibility and reach through ResearchGate’s new Journal Home offering.

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the latest publisher to start depositing full-text articles to Jisc’s Publications Router for onward distribution to UK institutional repositories.

Paradigm Publishing Services, the newly founded publishing services division of academic publisher De Gruyter, has announced a new strategic partnership with Boydell & Brewer, an independent, employee-owned publisher based in the United Kingdom.

"The acquisition of scite further enhances Research Solutions' product offerings and provides cross-selling opportunities to scite's consistently growing B2C customer base of approximately 21,000 active subscribers, as well as its diverse B2B customer base of corporate entities, leading academic institutions, and government agencies."