STM Publishing – June 2022
Clarivate and OCLC battle over library metadata
The worldwide library organisation OCLC has filed a lawsuit towards Clarivate – and its subsidiaries Clarivate Analytics, Ex Libris, and ProQuest – searching for to cease the corporate from utilizing collaboratively created belongings as a part of a brand new Ex Libris service referred to as MetaDoor.
OCLC maintains that Clarivate is prompting OCLC members to violate their contracts with the organisation by sharing assortment knowledge that features OCLC’s WorldCat information; furthermore, that by providing MetaDoor as a free competitor to WorldCat, Ex Libris is trying to drive OCLC out of the built-in library system market.
Clarivate responded with an announcement expressing its disappointment on the go well with, describing it as ‘with out advantage’, and insisting that it’s going to defend its place ‘vigorously’. It describes MetaDoor as ‘a free and open … community-based platform’ enabling the sharing ‘metadata created and owned by libraries’.
On June 27, nonetheless, a US District Courtroom decide granted OCLC a brief restraining order; Clarivate has agreed to adjust to the order, although it maintains its place that the go well with is meritless.
Transformative journals and offers
Cambridge College Press and Springer Nature have each issued updates on the quantity of open entry analysis being printed of their transformative journals. Cambridge introduced a rise of virtually 70%, with the general proportion of open entry analysis in Cambridge journals extra usually growing by virtually half to 36%. Springer Nature introduced a rise of 40%, with 730 of its journals assembly the requirement targets set by cOAlition S – greater than all different publishers mixed.
SAGE has concluded a transformative settlement with the College of California that may present entry to all of the journals included in SAGE’s 2022 Premier Journals Bundle and a reduction on charges for open entry publication within the writer’s hybrid and absolutely gold open entry journals. College libraries will contribute $1,000 to all article publishing charges and pay the distinction the place grant funding is unavailable. The deal will run to the tip of 2024.
Wiley has signed a four-year settlement with the Italian Bibliosan consortium that may see 68 establishments achieve learn entry to the corporate’s full journals portfolio and the flexibility to publish in all Wiley’s hybrid and gold open entry journals.
In the meantime, a white paper produced by open entry writer Frontiers has attacked transformative agreements for reinforcing the established order, locking out innovators, and avoiding ‘fundamental competitors and procurement guidelines’; it additionally criticises the choice by cOAlition S to simply accept hybrid journals as a ‘loophole’ enabling publishers to ‘delay and validate’ their present enterprise practices and calls on the signatories of Plan S to ‘negotiate circumstances such that … no less than 75% of content material is OA throughout a writer’s full portfolio by the tip of 2024’.
cOAlition S has itself launched its new Journal Comparability Service, by which publishers could make data on their providers and costs at a journal degree obtainable for librarians to entry; the purpose is to ‘allow conversations and comparisons that may construct confidence amongst prospects that these costs are honest and cheap’.
New platforms
Jisc is launching Octopus, a brand new platform for publishing and reviewing analysis. The platform divides the standard analysis paper into eight elements – drawback, speculation/theoretical rationale, strategies/protocol, knowledge/outcomes, evaluation, interpretation, real-world implementation, and peer assessment – which will be created and printed by totally different individuals at totally different occasions. Funded by UK Analysis and Innovation, it goals to allow the sooner sharing of outcomes, with credit score given to work in any respect levels of the method.
The Microbiology Society is relaunching its journal Entry Microbiology as an open analysis platform with a totally clear peer assessment course of: all article variations shall be posted to the platform as pre-prints, alongside reviewer studies, editor feedback and selections, and creator responses; the manuscript assessment instruments Penelope.ai, SciScore, and iThenticate will even be included.
Journals
Wolters Kluwer will tackle publication of the American Society of Nephrology’s three journals – the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, the Scientific Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, and Kidney360 – from January 2023.
Cambridge College Press will publish Animal Welfare, the official journal of the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare, from January 2023, when the journal will change into absolutely open entry.
Briefly
Wiley, which this month appointed Brian O’Harold Hemphill to its board of administrators, has introduced its outcomes for the monetary 12 months ending April 2022. For the primary time, the corporate’s revenues handed the $2bn mark, up 7% on 2021.
Swiss-based writer Karger has acquired the British science communications company Analysis Publishing Worldwide for an undisclosed quantity.
Taylor & Francis has partnered with the Charlesworth Group to ship standing updates on submitted manuscripts to researchers utilizing the favored Chinese language social media platform WeChat.
Alastair Horne is a lecturer in publishing research on the College of Stirling.
Alastair writes our STM Publishing and our Educational Publishing Newsletters.
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