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Eur 9500 APC rolled out across all Nature research journals, plus new experimental guided pilot introducing Editorial Assessment Charge
The OAPEN Foundation has launched a new open access (OA) books toolkit for researchers and academic book authors. The toolkit is a free-to-access, stakeholder-agnostic resource that aims to help authors better understand OA for books, increase trust in OA book publishing, provide reliable and easy-to-find answers to questions from authors, and to provide guidance on the process of publishing an OA book.
UKSG is proud to be a founder member of this DEI initiative which is now expanding its list of participants.
F1000 and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced plans to launch a new verified preprint platform that will enable the rapid availability of new findings and promote research integrity.
UKRI, in partnership with the Association of Learned Society Publishers (ALPSP), the British Academy, and the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), has commissioned a project from Information Power. The project is to support book publishers in their transition to sustainable open access models, with a particular focus on learned society, subject association, and smaller specialist publishers.
Recurring report from KGL Consulting compares editorial compensation data from dozens of journals across a broad range of disciplines
ResearchGate and Optica have announced that all Optica PublishingGroup’s wholly owned subscription and open access journalsare now available through ResearchGate’s innovative Journal Home offering.
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) has shared the results of its 2023 pledging round, which ended in December 2023 and saw hundreds of institutions worldwide pledge support for Open Access (OA) book and journal collections offered by KU and its publishing partners.
UCL Profiles (Profiles) is a publicly accessible search and discovery platform for UCL staff and doctoral researchers. It replaces UCL’s previous system, IRIS.
A significant milestone in its OA history, BMGF will push for preprints and advocate that those are reviewed. Authors are free to choose where their manuscripts end up.