News
Jisc strikes 156-university deal with NAS
Jisc, the not-for-profit technology provider for education and research and the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (NAS) have announced a two-year transformational open access (OA) pilot agreement. The ‘publish and read’ deal will allow UK corresponding authors at participating institutions to publish OA articles in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) without incurring any publication charges. Researchers at participating Jisc institutions will be able to access all PNAS content, dating back to 1915, for free. The Jisc consortium, which
consists of 156 UK universities, is the first national consortium to strike a transformational deal with the NAS. Caren Milloy, director of licensing
at Jisc, said: ‘We are delighted to have secured an agreement with PNAS that reduces costs for our members and provides Plan S compliant open access publishing whilst giving them access to their journal. The agreement is further evidence of Jisc’s commitment to supporting society publishers in the transition to open access.’ Ken Fulton, PNAS publisher and
NAS executive director, added: ‘We are very pleased to have reached this pilot agreement with Jisc, which ensures that authors from UK universities have a Plan S–compliant route to open access publishing in PNAS. We look forward to analysing data from this pilot as we explore open access business models. We are also excited to launch our fully open access journal, PNAS Nexus, in 2022.’ The two-year pilot agreement, which runs from July 2021 until June 2023, enables immediate OA for UK higher education institutions and research organisations that opt in. Jisc Collections has already
successfully negotiated similar deals with 15 small society publishers including the Microbiology Society, The Royal Society, and Portland Press.
China ‘pursuing national open science strategy’
China is working on a master plan for the internationalisation of its domestic journals and plans to pursue an open science strategy at a national level. That was one of the main messages of
a session at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Scholarly Publishing (SSP), and hosted by Cactus Communications (Cactus), a technology company accelerating scientific advancement. At the same time that the SSP session
was broadcast, Impact Science, the brand of Cactus that offers solutions for science dissemination and engagement with peers, the public, and policymakers for wider research outreach, released its most recent industry whitepaper, ‘Navigating China’s Academic & Research Landscape - A Guide for Academic Publishers and Societies.’
The highlight of the Cactus educational
session – The Future of STM Journal Publishing in China: Learnings, Challenges, and New Opportunities – conducted after the keynote address on day one of the meeting, was the special guest contribution by Zhaoping LYU, executive secretary of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST). During an interview with Christine Hu,
general manager of greater China for Cactus, Dr. Lyu stated: ‘China has always focused on the global progress of open science and has actively participated in it. ‘The Excellence Action Plan, led by
CAST, has an OA (open access) ratio of 81 per cent for new journals, which shows that Chinese STM journals are becoming an important force in the open access landscape. ‘Because of the large pool of Chinese
researchers, the many research institutions involved, and the volumes of papers and scientific data, promoting sustainable OA requires designing of a complex mechanism of coordinated
efforts. China, of course, will learn from the experience of other countries and make pragmatic and positive contributions to the United Nations’ initiative to promote Open Science worldwide.’ Dr. Lyu added: ‘We welcome the
cooperation between professional platforms, technological service providers, and Chinese academic and publishing institutions. While cooperating with foreign publishers, domestic publishers are also actively exploring a more autonomous development model.’ ‘The participation by a senior official
of CAST in the SSP Annual Meeting was a landmark event, ‘one that we are proud to have had a part in facilitating for the international publishing community,’ stated Donald Samulack, head of global stakeholder engagement for Cactus, and moderator of the SSP panel session on China.
‘China is rapidly expanding its academic
research capability as part of the country’s 14th Five-Year-Plan and the Excellence Action Plan led by CAST,’ added Abhishek GOEL, Co-Founder and CEO at Cactus. ‘We are well-positioned as an
organisation that works with researchers, universities, and scholarly publishers within the China academic ecosystem and globally, to participate in and support cooperation between foreign and domestic players in China’s growing publishing ecosystem, and also to help Chinese publishers achieve internationalisation.’ ‘It is our corporate mission and culture
to help researchers everywhere effectively communicate their research outcomes, so as to accelerate science, as well as scholarly endeavours, through editorial support, communication and social strategies, and various technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI) solutions.’
32 Research Information June/July 2021
@researchinfo |
www.researchinformation.info
AlexLMX/
Shutterstock.com
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36
