As part of its evolving Open Access strategy, it became clear to AIP that maintaining multiple overlapping models introduces unnecessary complexity for authors and librarians alike.
Posted 02 December 2025
Cambridge University Press and the Max Planck Society have collaborated to develop a new book sales agreement that combines evidence-based acquisition with open access funding.
Posted 07 October 2025
Access to European university theses has never been more crucial for researchers and information professionals. Between the generalization of direct access on university websites and the disappearance of two platforms, the landscape is evolving quickly.
Posted 07 October 2025
Publisher Collections will enable libraries around the world to acquire significant lists of new books from a growing set of 20+ publishers on the JSTOR platform.
Posted 02 September 2025
Copim Open Book Futures announced that Michigan State University (MSU) Press is the latest press to launch an Opening the Future (OtF) open access monograph funding program.
Posted 01 July 2025
It will become a new legal entity, the DOAJ Foundation, a Danish nonprofit foundation.
Posted 01 April 2025
DataSeer is helping AAAS boost reporting standards, collaborating with Taylor & Francis for compliance checks and open science metrics, and at KnowledgeWorks Global integrating open science checks into smart reviews.
Posted 05 November 2024
The Internet Archives announces the ability to access archived webpages directly through Google search.
Posted 01 October 2024
The new article type is now available at PLOS Climate, PLOS Global Public Health, PLOS Mental Health and PLOS Water.
Posted 01 October 2024
An initiative to strengthen the European repository network began with a comprehensive survey of the repository landscape. The next step is preparing a position paper.
Posted 06 August 2024
Sage has launched a free-to-read hub of social and behavioral science resources to foster evidence-based discussions about democracy and the 2024 elections inside and outside the classroom. This is particularly important in a year where half the world's population will exercise their democratic right to vote.
Posted 02 July 2024
A new report from the DIAMAS work package that SPARC Europe leads looks at understanding how institutional publishing is sustained today. Institutional publishers and service providers are diverse due to their missions, size and service provision. In addition, there is no definitive set of tasks that all institutional publishers share. These characteristics influence the sustainability options available to them and the choices they make.
Posted 05 April 2024
The policy marks the latest move by the publisher in integrating open research practice into its journal and book workflow, making it easier for authors to benefit from open science
Posted 02 April 2024
From metadata harvesters, to research institutions, to bibliometricians, everyone is welcome to use the DataCite public data file.
Posted 02 April 2024
Mark Carden deserves congratulations for organising one of the most distinctive conferences on the scholarly calendar. This is a smallish conference, with around 160 attendees, but the attendees—publishers, librarians, and researchers—tend to return, because they know what to expect, and everyone I spoke to agreed it has a special atmosphere.
Posted 05 March 2024
Launched as a pilot in January 2023, Path to Open is a delayed OA model where new books are made available to supporting libraries upon publication and become OA after 3 years.
Posted 07 November 2023
In response to the tender offer, cOAlition S chose scidecode
Posted 06 October 2023
"Pledge to Open" Aims to Publish 70 Open Access Books on Global Issues Through Innovative Collective Funding Pilot
Posted 01 August 2023
Open Advances will encompass a range of disciplines, focus on global challenges, and unlock Open Access by never charging authors a fee to publish
Posted 04 July 2023
Using the same infrastructure that powers ITHAKA's nonprofit services JSTOR and Portico, institutions can now increase the reach and usefulness of their local digital collections, secure access for generations to come and further the mission they share with one another and ITHAKA to improve access to knowledge worldwide.
Posted 04 July 2023
The Global Access Program (GAP) is designed to increase access to and adoption of PID services and infrastructure for communities beyond the Global North.
Posted 07 March 2023
The Sustainable Development Knowledge Cooperative is being launched in partnership with Impact Science, a brand of Cactus Communications (CACTUS).
Posted 07 March 2023
The King Salman Center for Disability Research (KSCDR) joined ScienceOpen in January 2023, increasing the content available in disability studies by adding hundreds of articles, books, and book chapters on its new collection.
Posted 07 February 2023
JSTOR, part of the non-profit ITHAKA, and a cohort of leading university presses announced Path to Open, a program to support the open access publication of new groundbreaking scholarly books that bring diverse perspectives and research to millions of people.
Posted 07 February 2023
At the 2019 Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) conference, Judy Verses, then Executive Vice President, Research, Wiley Inc., announced that Wiley had signed a partnership agreement with Projekt DEAL. At this year's APE conference, Irina Sens, Deputy Director, Head of Library Operations, German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), reported on "After the DEAL," an assessment of progress and a suggestion of possible ways forward.
Posted 07 February 2023