Open Access: IOP Publishing announces a transformative agreement with the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Open Access in Italy: A New Three-Year Transformative Agreement
The newly announced agreement between IEEE and Italy’s Crui opens options to researchers at 54 universities and research hubs.
Cambridge University Press Announces a Pakistan Studies Journal
The new Pakistan-focused journal is to survey colonialism, nationalism, gender representation, devotion, popular culture, diaspora, and more.
Holtzbrinck’s Springer Nature and University of California Renew Open Access Deal
The agreement Springer Nature is touting with the University of California is an extension of its 2020 arrangement for research articles.
England’s Oxford University Press Is Migrating Its Catalogue to Its Online Platform
The move of Oxford University Content to its online portal is a bid to provide ‘streamlined access’ to the publisher’s content.
Berlin’s Springer Nature: Open Access Up 40 Percent in Transformative Journals
Six transformative journals achieved 75-percent open-access uptake in 2021, according to Springer Nature this month.
Independent Publishing: CLMP Honors 2021 ‘Firecracker Award’ Winners
A work by Aoko Matsuda in its English translation by Polly Barton leads the 2021 CLMP ‘Firecracker Awards’ honorees.
Richard Charkin: A ‘Chasm’ Between Academic and Trade Publishing
‘The last 20 years have seen an ever-growing chasm between academic and trade publishing on the technology front,’ writes Charkin.
Industry Notes: BISG Seats New Board; UK’s Exact Editions Digitizes Turkish Magazine
BISG opens its new fiscal year and seats a board this week, as London’s Exact Editions announces its digitization of ‘Cornucopia.’
Industry Notes: International Distribution Forum at Frankfurt; UK’s Emerald ‘Insight’
The 2019 International Publishing Distribution Forum will be at Frankfurter Buchmesse, and in the UK, Emerald launches its redesigned platform.