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.…
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.…
Science has become more open and more transparent. Through open data and materials, many published findings are now directly reproducible by other researchers.…
The new policy from the OSTP promises a leap forward in the speed of transition to open research in the United States.
The University Collaboration Budget (UCB) funds initiatives that involve direct collaboration between the University and Cambridge University Press (Academic). Winning initiatives strive to further our shared aims, such as research excellence and integrity, scholarly communication and challenging elitism. UCB initiatives are wide-ranging - from developing free online teaching resources for learning scientific computing, to hosting a major academic event to celebrate the anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth and visit to Cambridge.
We recently submitted our annual Transformative Journals (TJ) report to cOAlition S, and here we share a few highlights with you.…
Open research is currently a major topic for researchers in the social sciences. We spoke to applicants Meng Liu and Kiera McNeice to find out more about their UCB initiative ‘Promoting Open Scholarship in Applied Linguistics’.
The languages we speak today are an incredibly rich record of the past. By analyzing the words they’re made up of, and the rules that guide how those words have evolved, we can gain insights into cultural contacts and the movements of peoples reaching back thousands of years.
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.…
Traditional models of conformity posit that individuals respond to the frequency of a behaviour amongst a social group only. This gives the impression that conformity functions like a rule-of-thumb to ‘always copy the majority’. This view does not align with recent research which shows that our use of social learning strategies is likely to be flexible. To extend this research, we ask whether an individuals’ decision to conform to the majority of a group will be flexible based on certain social information about the group from whom they learn.
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. …
Lansing is an American anthropologist and complexity scientist, currently a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. His most recent book is Islands of Order (with Murray Cox), Princeton University Press.
In July 2021 Cambridge University Press worked with an external research agency to explore a number of key areas around researcher awareness and needs in open access (OA), impact and pain points.…
“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.
Associate Professor Benjamin Walther at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi reflects on the value of getting a peer reviewed paper out of his research with negative results, while making a positive contribution to his field, boosting his publication record, and helping to secure additional funding to further his research.
As an ecologist, I am interested in conserving forgotten crop landraces and vanishing cropping systems of indigenous agrarian societies. Indigenous food production systems are always polycrop systems, growing diverse food and non-food crops on marginal lands, depending no external materials (e.g. agrochemicals, machiney, fossil fuel). Dozens of experimental studies proved the superior productive efficacy of multiple cropping systems, growing mostly 2 or 3 crops), over monocultures promoted by modern, industrial agriculture.
An interview with Sarah Thompson, Head of Content and Open Research, University of York Library The first Cambridge University Press Librarian Advisory Board meeting took place in 2004 prior to the UKSG Conference, which that year was held at the University of Manchester.…
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.…
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.
Colleen Campbell says it’s difficult to describe her job. On behalf of the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL), she leads external engagement in the Open Access transition.…
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 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.…
This Open Access week, we profile the German Law Journal (GLJ), which has been a pioneer of open scholarly publishing in law since its foundation in 2000.…
*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.…
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.…
This is the latest of an ongoing series of interviews with people involved with our new Open Access journal, Experimental Results – a forum for short research papers from experimental disciplines across Science, Technology and Medicine, providing authors with an outlet for rapid publication of small chunks of research findings with maximum visibility.…
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.…
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?…
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.…
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.…
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.
Imagine a group of people playing a sport together on a hot day. Although it’s a friendly match, they play vigorously and at the end of their game they’re hot and thirsty.…
Archaeology and cultural heritage work have fully entered the digital age. Today, researchers rely on tools like 3D scanners, a variety of GIS software, and Lidar equipped drones to document the past in ways that were unimaginable just a few decades ago.…
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public.…
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
A critical milestone for the archaeological ecosystem has been the publication this April of the National Archaeology Plan (NAP), part of a larger framework for cultural heritage that the Spanish Ministry of Culture has been developing for almost 40 years.…
A few months ago, we responded to a call for papers for a themed issue for Advances in Archaeological Practice entitled “Advances in Archaeological Labor Management.”…
Some disability-related names have dropped out of usage, because they are now considered to be offensive due to their origins. Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21) is one example.…
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
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