Open Access

16th December 202216th December 2022

Springer Nature Acquires Research Square & Launches New Mentoring Initiative

Industry News, STM Publishing Newsletter

STM Publishing – December 2022 Springer Nature acquires Research Square Company Springer Nature has increased its investment in Research Square Company to take full ownership of both American Journal Experts, ... Read more

31st October 20224th November 2022

De Gruyter Acquires Ubiquity & Cambridge Extends Its Open Access Pilot for Monographs

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Academic Publishing – October 2022 De Gruyter acquires Ubiquity; partners with Bristol University Press on distribution The Berlin-based publisher De Gruyter has acquired open research publisher and service provider Ubiquity. ... Read more

6th September 202212th October 2022

US Government Open Access Mandate & New Platform for Oxford University Press

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Academic Publishing – September 2022 US government mandates open access publication for federally funded research The United States government has announced a significant change to its open access policy. A ... Read more

30th June 202212th October 2022

Want To Know the Latest in STM Publishing? Here’s The News You Need to Know

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STM Publishing – June 2022 Clarivate and OCLC battle over library metadata The global library organisation OCLC has filed a lawsuit against Clarivate – and its subsidiaries Clarivate Analytics, Ex ... Read more

31st May 202212th October 2022

STM Publishing News for May 2022

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STM Publishing – May 2022 Transformative agreements The past month has seen another avalanche of open access and transformative deals from publishers. Wiley, which this month signed the Declaration on ... Read more

24th February 202217th March 2022

LBF’s Research & Scholarly Publishing Forum Line-Up Announced

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Thursday 7 April, 09:00-14:00 LONDON, 24 February 2022. The London Book Fair has today announced the line-up for The Research and Scholarly Publishing Forum (7 April 2022), which will explore ... Read more

15th February 202212th October 2022

STM Publishing – February 2022

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Transformative agreements The past month has seen a flurry of transformative agreements from STM publishers. Wiley has concluded five deals across three continents. A three-year agreement with the Slovenian Academic ... Read more

9th June 2021

cOAlition S: Making Full and Immediate Open Access a Reality

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Open Access agreements with smaller publishers require active cross-stakeholder alignment, report says Strasbourg, 9th June 2021. Open Access agreements between consortia/libraries and smaller independent publishers are used worldwide increasingly since ... Read more

11th May 202123rd August 2022

Academic Publishing – May 2021

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Open Library of the Humanities merges with Birkbeck The Open Library of the Humanities, founded in 2015 by Martin Eve and Caroline Edwards, has merged with Birkbeck, University of London, ... Read more

6th May 202120th May 2021

The London Book Fair Announces Format for 2021 Online Event

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The Online Book Fair by LBF will bookend June, with flexible and focussed sessions for all audiences Matt Haig announced as Author of the Fair London, 6th May 2021. The ... Read more