What’s new in OA & scholarly publishing globallyGeneral NewsF1000 the new EU publishing platform The EU has awarded the contract for its new publishing platform to F1000. F1000 (which Taylor and Francis recently bought) also run the Wellcome and Gates platforms. Read more. American Chemical Society signs OA agreement with MITUnder the new agreement all ACS journal articles with MIT-affiliated corresponding authors will be made open access. The associated accepted manuscripts will be automatically deposited into MIT’s open access repository. In addition, a number of the final published papers will also be made open on the ACS publishing platform. Read more.UNESCO seeking consultation on Open ScienceThe organisation will hold a series of online and face to face consultations to support an open debate on Open Science awareness, understanding and policy development to feed into the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. Read more.French support for Open infrastructureSCOSS has secured substantial funding (€450,000) for open infrastructure from the French National Fund for Open Science to support OpenCitations, the Public Knowledge Project and the Directory of Open Access Books. Read more. NB Our April webinar will provide an update on SCOSS. New API for CCCreative Commons has launched a new API to allow for a custom CC Search. Read more. Publishing principles open for comment Educopia has published a set of principles on “the relationship between today’s varied scholarly publishing service providers and the academic values that we believe should guide their work.” These principles are open for comment in this white paper. Journal production & access surveyScholastica is conducting a survey on The State of Journal Production and Access among scholarly societies, university presses, and university libraries that publish one or more journals independently. Read more. COVID-19: COMMENTARY AND POLICYGlobal Science Advisers including the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy have called for free Access to COVID-19 Research. Read more. A group of US Library Copyright Specialists have put out a Public Statement on Fair Use & Emergency Remote Teaching & Research.
The Wellcome has a list of publishers who are making COVID-19 research publications free and machine readable.
Interesting commentary in the EU’s science magazine on the importance of data sharing in COVID-19 Read more
The Netherlands has a good page on making COVID-19 research open Read more
The OECD Secretariat, through the Digital Government and Data Unit, is calling for evidence on the release and use of Open Government Data (OGD) in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Read more. COVID-19: NEW RESOURCES 24,000 papers are open & mineable. In the US, the Allen Institute for AI, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Microsoft, and the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health has produced this open, mine-able set of 24,000 papers on COVID-19. It was requested by the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy. The office has now issued a call to action to the Nation’s artificial intelligence experts to develop new text and data mining techniques that can help the science community answer high-priority scientific questions related to COVID19.
There is also a resource LitCovid – a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus. It describes itself as “the most comprehensive resource on the subject, providing a central access to 1528 (and growing) relevant articles in PubMed.
medRxiv and bioRxiv have combined their COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 preprints in one site.
Our World in Data has created interactive charts. Have a look
Data scientists have created a dashboard using open source tools to track and visualize the spread of COVID-19. Have a look.
Coronavirus Tech Handbook – a crowd-sourced resource for technologists building things related to the Coronavirus outbreak
Nextstrain – real time tracking of pathogen evolution.
ProQuest has partnered with more than 100 publishers to support libraries in providing unlimited access to Ebook Central holdings for all patrons – at no extra charge.
The Internet Archive has Announced a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to Students and the Public. See here
Plan S
Journal Checker tool
Plan S organised a Q & A webinar for the development and maintenance of a Journal Checker Tool. Read more.
Call for Study
cOAlition S has announced a call for “an informed study containing an analysis and overview of collaborative non-commercial (aka “Diamond”) publishing journals and platforms. The study is financially supported by Science Europe. The objective is to identify ways to support publishing initiatives wishing to implement Diamond business models.” Read more
DataCall for 5% investment in data sharing
Call for more funders to invest in the management of data with the aim of building capacity, to enable groups form around the world to collaborate and share good practices so that good data stewardship becomes the rule, not the exception. Read more.
Essay Competition
CODATA is running an Essay Competition: Open Data Challenges to Address Global and Societal Issues for Early Career Researchers (ECR), defined as university undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate students or early career researchers within five years of completing their highest qualification. Read more OERFaculty attitudes to OER
A new report on the impact of, and faculty attitudes to, open educational resources at US universities. Inflection Point: Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2019, has found the market is at a turning point, with faculty awareness, adoption, and satisfaction with these materials continuing to grow, along with evidence that campus efforts to support OER continue to have a positive impact. | 
