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IOP Publishing (IOPP) has joined the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA), a collaboration between publishers, infrastructure organisations

ACM Joins Initiative for Open Abstracts These updates are republished press releases and communications from members of the Science|Business Network ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has joined the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA), a collaboration between publishers, infrastructure organizations, librarians, and researchers to promote the open availability of abstracts. By joining I4OA, ACM commits to making abstracts of articles published by ACM available in an open and machine...

Open Science Opinion Catriona MacCallum, Hindawi’s Director of Open Science, discusses a historic milestone for scientific publishing. The Royal Society, who created the very first and now longest running scientific journal, has announced its intention to flip four of their key hybrid research journals to Open Access, including their flagship biology journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. They will do this when the proportion of each journal reaches 75% open access, whether this is throu...