STM Publishing – August 2022
ALPSP amongst organisations elevating issues about deliberate knowledge mining exceptions
A bunch of business organisations has written to Kwasi Kwarteng, the Secretary of State for Enterprise, Vitality and Industrial Technique to lift issues concerning the authorities’s determination to introduce a brand new copyright exception permitting the mining of copyrighted textual content and knowledge by any entity anyplace at no cost, for any industrial use.
Within the letter (PDF), the group – together with the Publishers Affiliation, the Affiliation of Realized and Skilled Society Publishers (ALPSP), and the Unbiased Publishers Guild – reminds the minister that the previous IP minister, George Freeman MP, promised that the federal government would look once more on the determination, which it suggests ‘will significantly undermine the UK’s mental property framework, battle with worldwide regulation, and … unintentionally present worldwide rights holders and non-UK based mostly analysis organisations with a aggressive benefit.’
IOP Publishing strengthens its dedication to open entry
IOP Publishing has introduced that the journal Nuclear Fusion, printed in partnership with the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (IAEA), will develop into absolutely open entry at first of subsequent yr. The writer has additionally issued particulars of a brand new coverage to be carried out throughout all its journals, which can see researchers from international locations with lower-middle earnings economies – in keeping with the World Financial institution categorisation – charged a flat APC price of £500; IOP Publishing already permits researchers from international locations with low-income economies to publish with out cost in its absolutely or hybrid open entry journals.
Springer Nature provides synthetic intelligence options
Springer Nature has introduced two new initiatives within the discipline of synthetic intelligence. Nature Analysis Intelligence is a brand new AI-led service that goals to help tutorial, authorities, and company decision-makers to make choices on technique and funding knowledgeable by real-time info and knowledge.
It’ll launch with three merchandise: Nature Technique Report (a personalized report giving insights for setting analysis course); Nature Index (metrics to assist organisations perceive their analysis output); and Nature Navigator (utilizing real-time knowledge and synthetic intelligence to information analysis choices and determine alternatives for collaboration).
In the meantime, a brand new pilot in partnership with American Journal Specialists (AJE) will make the latter’s AI-driven enhancing providers made out there to e-book authors and editors, correcting grammatical errors and bettering phrasing and phrase selection. The pilot can be out there cost-free to e-book authors and editors in sure disciplines, together with Utilized Sciences and Medication and Life Sciences, till the tip of the yr.
A second pilot, this time in partnership with Brooklyn-based start-up scite and lasting for six months, will provide researchers utilizing the Springer Nature Analysis Options hub particular person licenses for the latter’s Good Citations device, enabling them to find how and why analysis has been cited by displaying the important thing context round a quotation.
New Bioethics platform from F1000
F1000 is launching a brand new bioethics publishing platform, Bioethics Open Analysis, the primary platform to adjust to the FAIR Rules – Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of digital belongings – that can be required by the sector’s largest funder, the American Nationwide Institutes of Well being (NIH), from subsequent yr. The primary companion to launch a devoted publishing area on the brand new platform can be The American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB).
Transformative agreements
IOP Publishing has signed its first three transformative agreements in the US. Offers with Princeton College, the College of Central Florida, and Connecticut School, all beginning on 1 January 2023 and lasting three years, will present researchers with limitless barrier-free publication in all of the writer’s hybrid and gold open entry titles, plus studying entry to all its journals. IOPP now has agreements with 290 establishments in 15 international locations.
Springer Nature has prolonged its transformative settlement with the College of California, including Nature titles to the checklist of journals lined by the prevailing deal, signed again in 2020. The extension runs from the beginning of August this yr to the tip of 2024 and can see researchers obtain $1,000 from College of California libraries in the direction of the prices of open entry publication in Nature, the Nature analysis journals, Nature Communications and Scientific Experiences. The settlement is the primary within the Americas to cowl Nature titles.
Staying in the US, Taylor & Francis has signed a transformative settlement with Montana State College granting researchers fee-free publication within the writer’s open entry journals and unrestricted entry to content material printed in any of its journals by way of to the tip of 2024.
Crossing the Atlantic, UK not-for-profit Jisc has signed an open entry settlement with the American Psychological Affiliation providing affiliated researchers capped open entry publishing within the affiliation’s journals.
UKRI updates info on open entry coverage
UK Analysis and Innovation (UKRI) has printed up to date info on its open entry coverage for analysis that has acquired funding from the organisation, initially introduced in August 2021. All monographs, e-book chapters, and edited collections funded by UKRI and printed after 1 January 2024 have to be made open entry inside twelve months of publication. Journal articles submitted for publication since 1 April this yr require speedy open entry publication.
Partnerships
SAGE has partnered with the Wikipedia Library in a transfer that can giving the net encyclopaedia’s editors full-text entry to virtually two million articles printed in SAGE’s thousand-plus peer-reviewed journals. The transfer goals to enhance the standard of knowledge out there on Wikipedia whereas concurrently extending the visibility and impression of analysis printed within the writer’s journals.
Swiss-based writer Karger has introduced a twelve-month pilot partnership with scholarly social community ResearchGate which can see greater than 5 thousand articles from fifteen of its hybrid and absolutely open entry journals made seamlessly out there to customers of the community.
Briefly
The theme for this yr’s Peer Evaluation Week, as a consequence of happen from 19-23 September, has been introduced: Analysis Integrity: Creating and supporting belief in analysis. Publishers are invited to hitch scholarly societies, researchers, editors, libraries, universities, funding our bodies, and different scholarly communication stakeholders in collaborating in actions together with stay and on-line occasions, weblog posts, movies, podcasts, and infographics.
Peter Vicary-Smith, previously Chief Govt at Which?, has been appointed as the brand new Chair of the BMJ (previously the British Medical Journal); he may also function a non-executive director of guardian firm the BMA.
Clarivate has introduced the retirement of CEO Jerre Stead, efficient from 1 September 2022; he can be changed by Jonathan Gear, beforehand Chief Monetary Officer of IHS Markit.
Alastair Horne is a lecturer in publishing research on the College of Stirling.
Alastair writes our STM Publishing and our Educational Publishing Newsletters.
