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All change at Cambridge


Cambridge University Press and Cambridge Assessment is now a new, single organisation. Cambridge University Press &


Assessment will provide academic research, learning and assessment offerings globally, backed by the teaching and research departments of Cambridge University. The organisation’s stated aim is to


provide a joined up, digital service and innovative products that combine its expertise. The academic division of the press,


serving customers in higher education, will continue to provide research and education products and services under the Cambridge University Press name. Academic books and journals will


continue to be published under the Cambridge University Press imprint.


Organisations’ current contractual relationships with Cambridge University Press remains the same. Future contracts will reference Cambridge University Press & Assessment, but there is no need for any changes to existing contracts with


New company to run and publish academic seminars


The former founders of Kopernio, Mendeley and Publons have joined forces to launch new firm Cassyni. With the launch of Cassyni,


founders Ben Kaube and Andrew Preston seek to address what they describe as a previously underserved problem in research: the discovery, organisation and publication of academic seminars. Seminars are a critical part


of the research ecosystem, with more than a million held each year. They are a key part of research culture allowing academics to share ideas, often while they are still in development. In the pandemic, in-person seminars have become difficult to hold, but online meetings have created opportunities to increase the reach and impact of seminars. Cassyni is a smart online video seminar space - making it much easier for researchers to create, capture and publish content and recordings of academic seminars in a


cohesive, transparent manner. The team says the full


interactive potential of seminars is currently not being realised due to the lack of suitable workflow solutions for seminar organisers, speakers and attendees, resulting in the ad-hoc use of disjointed and unsuitable tools, leading to wasted researcher effort, fragmentation of the seminar landscape and lost academic discourse. Cassyni launches with


customers from research departments and journals around the world, and with Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand as a founding partner for their institutional offering. Researchers organise, host, run and publish their seminars, and assign them with a DOI so they can be cited by the academic community and also discover seminars of interest and join live or watch recordings of past seminars. Ben Kaube said: ‘Academic seminars are one of the


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main ways that researchers collaborate, communicate and disseminate their latest findings and provide an accelerated and early route to communicating scholarly research. With Cassyni researchers can now increase their visibility and impact by making their academic seminars easily citable via DOIs – it’s an additional and faster way to get cited.’ Academic institutions


increase the global impact and reach of their research by providing institution-wide access to Cassyni. Institutions can much better support the growth of research communities and amplify the international reach and impact of seminars via dedicated institutional analytics and comparisons. Improving online seminar infrastructure in the university can bring together members of a department or multi-disciplinary teams to build a more cohesive research culture.


Institutions are increasingly


making it a priority to tell their story and share their research globally through online video services, not just in response to the pandemic, but to lower their carbon footprint. Professor Margaret Hyland,


Vice-Provost (Research) at the Wellington university, said: ‘Even before Covid-19 we were looking at low-carbon alternatives to travel. We believe that Cassyni will help grow the reach and impact of our research, and allow others to benefit from our extensive experience.’ Leading journals are already engaging with their authors and journal communities by hosting seminars on Cassyni. For example, the Journal of Computational Physics (Elsevier) is running author-led discussions of highly impactful papers on Cassyni. Journals can also provide this as a service to their authors, further helping them to amplify their research impact, improving transparency and ultimately accelerating research.


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Cambridge University Press. In the coming months, invoices issued will include the new organisation’s name. The new website for Cambridge University Press and Assessment (cambridge.org) was launched in August.


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