Busy month for SAGE Publishing It’s been a busy month for SAGE, which has invested in Thusly, a technology start-up creating research tools for big data analysis of document archives, ... Read more

Plan S continues to make waves Plan S, the open access initiative launched in September by a coalition of eleven European organisations funding research, has been buoyed by the announcement ... Read more

STM Conference This year’s STM conference at Frankfurt marked the organisation’s fiftieth anniversary. The keynote speaker was new Springer Nature CEO Daniel Ropers, who expressed concerns at publishers being seen ... Read more

Battle over Plan S? cOAlition S, an alliance of eleven national research funding organisations supported by both the European Commission and the European Research Council, has announced its intentions to ... Read more

SAGE acquires Talis and new journal SAGE Publishing has acquired the technology company Talis and its enterprise teaching and learning platform Talis Aspire, whose resource list management system is currently ... Read more

Clarivate releases latest Journal Citation Reports, announces Caltech deal Clarivate Analytics has released the latest update to its Journal Citation Reports. Covering 11,655 journals across 234 disciplines and 80 countries, ... Read more

SpringerNature rebuts impact factors criticism, partners with TNW, launches Polar Platform SpringerNature has responded to criticisms of its attitude towards the San Francisco Declaration on Research, and specifically its use ... Read more

Market conditions sink Springer flotation In an unexpected move, Springer Nature has postponed its planned flotation on the Frankfurt stock market the day before trading was due to begin. The ... Read more