Happy New Year! In this first digest of 2025, we highlight an upcoming webinar from OASPA about the role of public and private research funders in OA publishing. We remind readers to register for the upcoming 2025 ISMPP Europe meeting in London, UK, and we signpost a call to participate in a series of working groups for the Open Science Monitoring Initiative. Finally, we reflect on 2024 by reading LSE Blogs’ top 10 posts about developments in scholarly publishing, consider tech trends that could transform scholarly publishing in 2025, and learn of a new read-and-publish agreement between UNL Libraries and RSC.
To engage with:
Insights from OA research funders via OASPA
How do public and private research funders enable, embrace and engage with open access (OA)? In this webinar from the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), representatives from corporate and government organizations will share their perspectives on practising and supporting OA research. Register now to join Denise Pires de Carvalho (President of CAPES), Valérie Philippon (Global Head of Scientific Communications, Medical Information and Medical Learning at UCB), Jeroen Sondervan (Programme Leader Open Scholarly Communication Open Science NL at the Dutch Research Council), Carina Kemp (International Lead for Research at AWS) and Sara Rouhi (Director of Open Science and Publishing Innovation at AIP Publishing) on Thursday 23 January.
Register for ISMPP Europe 2025 via ISMPP
It’s not too late to register for the 2025 European Meeting of the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP)! Taking place from 27 to 29 January in London, UK, the meeting offers a full agenda of plenary sessions, workshops, roundtables and poster presentations on the theme of Core values for an integrated age. This year, Open Pharma will be moderating a roundtable titled Cross-publisher plain language article guidance: have your say and will present the results of a recent survey of healthcare professionals exploring how they find and use plain language summaries. We look forward to seeing you there!
Call to participate: OSMI working groups via Open Science Monitoring Initiative
The Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI) is calling for interested parties to join one of four working groups: Scoping the needs of open science monitoring, Understanding the open science monitoring landscape, Open science monitoring with scholarly content providers, and Shared resources and infrastructure to analyse scholarly outputs. These working groups will support OSMI’s aim to promote the worldwide adoption of open science principles and monitoring practices. Expressions of interest are welcomed until Wednesday 15 January.
To read:
Looking back: 2024 in scholarly publishing via LSE Blogs | 7-minute read
In this retrospective, LSE Blogs reflects on its top 10 posts about scholarly publishing from 2024. From preprints to group authorship, these blog posts highlight key developments from the past year and prompt us to consider how scholarly publishing can be more sustainable, equitable and useful. For those of you keeping abreast of developments in artificial intelligence (AI), this second reflection on working with generative AI is a must-read too.
Looking ahead: tech trends for 2025 via The Scholarly Kitchen | 8-minute read
How can technological trends revolutionize scholarly publishing? In this article, Hong Zhou (Director of AI Products and AI R&D at Wiley) reflects on Gartner’s recent webinar titled Top strategic technology trends for 2025. Here he explores the challenges and opportunities innovations – namely agentic AI, AI governance platforms, disinformation security and spatial computing – could bring to the field of scholarly publishing.
UNL Libraries enters read-and-publish agreement with RSC via STMPublishing News | 1-minute read
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) Libraries have signed a new read-and-publish agreement with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). Beginning 1 January 2025, UNL Libraries will cover article processing charges for UNL-affiliated authors wishing to publish their research in an RSC journal. The agreement also provides unlimited reading access to all RSC journals.
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