We are pleased to introduce ourselves to the Cambridge Core family as the co-editors of Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. Tristan is a professor of modern Japanese history at Nagoya University, specializing in colonialism, architecture, urban planning, film, and pop culture.…
Every year, an increasing proportion of scientific articles are published open access, which means they are fully available to all, rather than being hidden behind a subscription paywall. There are various reasons for this trend, but all are underpinned by the fact that publicly available research enables greater impact and visibility, while also increasing the accessibility of scientific knowledge.
Between 2012 and 2014, I held a two-year Wellcome Trust Research Leave Award (WT096499AIA) for a project on women surgeons in Britain, 1860-1918.…
The whole scholarly communications ecosystem is in a transition, and the open access policies of funders and other institutions have been incredibly powerful for driving the transition to open access (OA) publishing.…
Quantitative Plant Biology (QPB) is a community-based journal, co-published by Cambridge University Press and The John Innes Centre, with a prestigious and engaged editorial board led by Dr Olivier Hamant. QPB was established with the belief that plant science research is a key endeavour in a changing environment. For this, not only does the journal build on cutting-edge quantitative approaches, it also opens the field to citizen science and art & science with dedicated article formats and collections. At QPB, we believe that research is first and foremost a question of creativity. This also means that plant science should be available to everyone, everywhere, and that the processes behind the research should be fully transparent.
Last month, cOAlition S published an annual review of their transformative journals programme, based on data provided by publishers including our own (download our 2022 transformative journals report here).…
The development of open access has placed a new spotlight on how we define ‘research’. At Cambridge we publish peer-reviewed research journals, but in practice those journals are often much more than simply a collection of original research articles.…
In 2021 Cambridge set up its Chinese Librarian Advisory Board. It’s the only Cambridge advisory board to consist solely of members from a single country and the only one that does not communicate in the English language.…
Science has become more open and more transparent. Through open data and materials, many published findings are now directly reproducible by other researchers.…
We are moving Flip it Open into a new phase, by announcing our intention to flip 100 titles publishing through 2023 and beyond to open access once a set revenue threshold is met.…
The new policy from the OSTP promises a leap forward in the speed of transition to open research in the United States.
We recently submitted our annual Transformative Journals (TJ) report to cOAlition S, and here we share a few highlights with you.…
As one of the editors and authors of Rome: An Empire of Many Nations. New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity, it seems to me that the volume’s becoming open access affirms the purpose of the book and the field which it investigates.…
We are pleased to announce that, for the first time, we are guaranteeing a route to full compliance with UKRI’s new open access policy for the vast majority of researchers in the UK.…
We launched the Flip it Open pilot as an experiment in June 2021. In April this year, less than 8 months after the publication of the first titles in August 2021, we are excited to announce that the first three titles are being flipped to open access.…
When The Global Pandemic started two years ago, Cambridge University Press was quick to react with a number of extraordinary initiatives that supported not only the goal to work towards eradicating the virus, but also our mission to advance learning, research and knowledge worldwide. …
“Our paper published in Experimental Results has one of the highest altimetric scores in the journal. In fact, is has the highest altimetric score of any paper I’ve published. Just because it’s a short paper (700 words) and it’s something incremental, doesn’t mean it can’t be sexy!” explained Dr. Punit Shah, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Psychology at the University of Bath.
Introducing Research Directions, a new journal concept that will bring research communities together to solve complex problems.
Open Access Week is always a good chance to reflect on the progress since last year and think about what needs to happen next.…
We welcome UKRI’s recently announced new Open Access policy. It is clear that UKRI has listened to a wide range of stakeholders and tried hard to balance their many varied, and often contrasting, needs.…
Brigitte Shull is the country manager for the US at Cambridge University Press and also manages a team within the Academic business.…
Ned Jenkinson (University of Birmingham): an Experimental Results author is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehab Sciences and Researcher in the Centre for Human Brain Health.…
“We will not be buying your book,” they responded to me after I had informed them that my monograph, Performing Power in Nigeria: Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism, was being published by Cambridge University Press.…
We are set to launch our exciting new Open Access books initiative, Flip it Open.
We are delighted to announce ChemRxiv has been re-launched on our early open research website Cambridge Open Engage today, Thursday 17th June 2021!…
Now we are in Volume Two of Experimental Results, our first journal with an open peer review model, it seems a good time to reflect on our reasoning for choosing the open peer review model, and reception from the author & reviewer community so far.…
At the end of the first volume for Experimental Results, we take a look back at the journal’s first year of publication.…
At Cambridge University Press, we believe that text and data mining is a powerful research tool with incredible potential. The use of machines and algorithms allow for analysis of information at scales, scopes, and levels of complexity that have previously been impossible to achieve.…
*UPDATED 17 November 2020* For some time now we have been committed to a transition to totally open research. And therefore we greatly appreciate the commitment that cOAlition S have made to funding the costs of Gold Open Access journal publishing.…
Today we announced our support for Plan S’s transformative journals programme as a welcome new route for our authors to publish Open Access (OA) research articles.…
A joint response to the UKRI policy review, from Cambridge University Press and University Library
Experimental Results is a truly innovative project for Cambridge University Press – it is the first of our journals to have an open peer review process, as well as being designed to address the positive bias and replication issues often seen with traditional journals, by providing a forum for all sound experimental findings across Science, Technology & Medicine.…
The US Government’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is re-evaluating its policies and practices for public access to federally funded scholarly publications, data and code.…
In a world that is currently experiencing drastic disruption, responsible sharing of new research at an early stage is ever more important.…
In this case study, Sebastian Karcher and Diana Kapiszewski talk about their experience posting their research on APSA Preprints, the first partner area on our new early and open research platform Cambridge Open Engage.…
Journals play a key role in the creation and preservation of the academic record. But do we still need them? There is an ongoing discussion in the community about whether all publicly funded research articles must be made freely available on publication, as a pre-final version (the accepted manuscript) if not the final published version.…
This month, we’re approaching the launch of direct submission to Cambridge Open Engage, our new early research platform. As well as working with researchers to build the site over the last several months, a key piece of work has been designing our policies and procedures for moderating content.…
Cambridge Open Engage is the new early research platform from Cambridge University Press. It is designed to provide researchers with space to connect and collaborate with their communities, disseminate early research, including conference posters, data, as well as other types of open content such as grey literature and make preprints more discoverable.…
Our Managing Director of Academic publishing, Mandy Hill, outlined the opportunities and challenges of embracing open research in a recent piece for Research Information’s yearbook.…
In November last year, cOAlition S proposed a new route to compliance with Plan S: transformative journals. In brief, the proposal requires transformative journals to: Grow their Open Access (OA) primary research content by 8 percentage points a year, to flip to wholly OA when they reach 50% OA or by end 2024 at the latest To have transparent pricing for both the OA content (with services breakdown) and subscription content (avoiding double-dipping) To offer APC waivers and discounts To transform to OA with overall cost neutrality To ‘regularly update’ authors on the usage, citations, and online attention of their articles.…
Researchers uploading their work to bioRxiv now have an easier route to submit their work to Cambridge University Press journals thanks to a limited trial that’s currently running.…
Open research aims to offer significant benefits for researchers, authors, institutions, funders, governments and society as a whole by providing greater access to research, data and methodologies.…
We’re asking for your input on criteria for selecting data repositories — Where should I publish my research data? Sometimes there’s an obvious answer to this question.…
I was first approached about editing at Evolutionary Human Sciences (EHS) at the EHBEA meeting in Pecs, Hungary. I’d recently started submitting my own Registered Reports (RRs) and was enthusiastic about helping to spread what I was finding to be an incredibly valuable new format for doing and reporting science.…
Data science is a broad, interdisciplinary field being that in the UK is being shaped by the activities of the Turing Institute.…
We’re making the roadmap for Cambridge Open Engage public. Here’s the explanation for why we’re doing this: What is Cambridge Open Engage?…
At Cambridge, we’re committed to creating Open Access publications and we’re keen to experiment and explore all options for making this happen.…
Co-creation is not a new idea. For years companies have been seeking advice from their customers about how they can improve their products and services, either by asking directly, by quietly listening, or by learning from data.…
After numerous efforts to get some of my research papers published, I was biased about peer review processes and concluded that only new research areas were published.…
Improvements, Iterations, and Infrastructure Cambridge University Press has a set of objectives in the peer review space . . . with several question marks still: Objectives: Increase transparency Support reviewer recognition Offer more training resources for reviewers Improve internal processes to make peer review more efficient Questions: What are the evolving challenges to peer review and opportunities in evolving forms of scholarly communication for peer review and how do we respond to them?…
The process of peer review is a central element of the scholarly communication process. Peer review follows a traditional model for traditional journal publishing.…
“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.…
In May, cOAlition S updated their implementation guidelines for Plan S following a consultation period. The revised guidelines provide useful clarity on a number of points, and give us a firmer idea of how the journals we publish can comply with Plan S.…
Cambridge Open Engage is our new open early research platform, designed to provide researchers with the space and resources to connect and collaborate with their communities, and enable them to rapidly disseminate early research.…
“Centennial Reflections – a distinguished parasitologist reflects on a paper published in their field in Parasitology 100 years ago” Coccidiosis in humans – the past 100 years: A Revision of the Coccidia Parasitic in Man BY: J.…
Cambridge University Press has agreed to an Open Access publishing deal with the University of California. This transformative agreement will advance the global shift towards an open access future for research.…
Academic welcomed 50 of our journal society partners and editors from all over the world to our inaugural summit
New service to launch August 2019 will boost speed and impact of early research The American Political Science Association (APSA) will be launching its own open research preprint platform in collaboration with Cambridge University Press, called APSA Preprints, at the Association’s Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. …
This week we are celebrating Open Access Week, where the theme is ‘designing equitable foundations for open knowledge’, the purpose of which is to reflect on a scholarly system in transition, and consider how implementing Open Access (OA) and Open Research (OR) might be achieved for diverse communities.…
Cambridge University Press exists to advance knowledge, learning and research. As part of our purpose, we disseminate high-quality research and drive its impact and reach, working with the academic communities we support.…
In the interest of promoting open and reproducible science, the Journal of Experimental Political Science editorial team will pilot the pre-acceptance of preregistered reports.…
At Cambridge University Press, we recognize that the central promise of the Open movement—that an open scholarly ecosystem will accelerate the ability of research to solve problems—is of the highest importance to our communities.
We are excited to share with you the latest development with Cambridge Core Share – a shareable PDF! Following the success of our new sharing service, Cambridge Core Share, in December 2017, we have now expanded the functionality to include shareable PDFs.…
The Society for American Archaeology’s paper of the month for May comes from Advances in Archaeological Practice and is entitled: ‘Teaching Open Science: Published Data and Digital Literacy in Archaeology Classrooms‘.…
Cambridge University Press is proud to support International Open Access Week, running from 23rd to 29th October 2017. As a leading University Press we are actively engaged with Open Access, and our Open Access publishing platform, Cambridge Open, serves authors and the wider community by publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed OA content. Follow our Facebook and Twitter pages this week to read blog posts from our Open Access team, read our most-read Open Access articles, and learn more about Cambridge Open.
The development of our Open Access programme, Cambridge Open, continues to be a major area of importance for the Press, both Green and Gold OA.
Did you know that Open Access books are available via Cambridge Core? These books cover topics across law, literature, life sciences, politics and more, and can be accessed online by readers from across the world without charge or licence agreement.…
At the rainy end of September, I found myself in Washington DC for the first time, strolling along the National Mall and tentatively approaching the White House.…
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