In a collaborative effort Dutch research institutes and funders announce the development of new system of recognition and rewards. In November 2018, the Dutch universities, university medical centers and research institutes, together with funding agencies NWO and ZonMW put forward the ambition to revisit their collective system of recognition and rewards. In November 2019, the position paper “Room for everyone’s talent” was published, marking the result of a year’s worth of meetings and dozens of site visits with academics.

The Munin conference gathers librarians and research administrators from the Nordic countries and the rest of Europe, working on OA and publishing issues from higher education libraries.

The 14th edition took place in Tromsø at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, from November 27–28, 2019.

The programme and the presentations and posters are online, as well as the videos.

Based on a survey conducted in late spring 2019, a report published in September 2019 examines what key international funding bodies are doing to incentivise openness in the work they help fund. The intention behind the survey, which was led by SPARC Europe in consultation with ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities, The European Foundation Centre (EFC) and Science Europe, is to spur even greater support for Open research and to advance Open Access to research results in Europe.

Preprints have become more widespread in a number of disciplines over the last few years, partly to counter the slow pace of the traditional publishing process and partly to allow authors to reach a broader audience. Knowledge Exchange, in collaboration with Research Consulting, investigated this phenomenon in order to explore the current place of preprints in the scholarly communication process.

The 23rd edition of the International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ElPub) took place in June 2019 in Marseille, France.

The posters and slides are online.

The OSPP (Open Science Policy Platform) asked their stakeholders some questions on the future of Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Communication. These are the answers prepared by the OPERAS Core Group. OPERAS is the European Research infrastructure for open scholarly communication in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH).

At the end of August, as part of a second meeting on research equity, Ugandan National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST) and INASP brought together journal editors in Uganda to help improve them their publishing standards to meet the requirements of the Journal Publishing and Practice Standards (JPPS) and increase visibility of their journals and the research they contain.

Because the cost of continually upgrading technology can be both operationally and financially daunting, content providers too often go with the quick-and-easy option. Is that wise?

This article explores how the Scopus curation and re-evaluation processes help exclude poor-quality and predatory publications from Scopus. Also highlighted are the new approaches being developed to ensure both quality and breadth of coverage. Scopus content continues to be unrivalled and highly trusted.

The participants of the second AEUP (Association of the European University Presses) conference have committed to cooperate further in enhancing the recognition of university/institutional publishing. Read the full text of the declaration here.

Other reports from the conference can be found here.