SDG Publishers Compact

In December 2020, IOS Press became a member of the UN’s SDG Publishers Compact and in doing so committed to develop sustainable practices and act as champions of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), publishing books and journals that will help inform, develop, and inspire action in that direction. As a company, we primarily contribute to this by the sharing of ideas and in relation to the content that is published and, during the first months of 2021, we began looking at the SDGs with an aim to set specific targets. Below are five current priorities and we are working with journal editors to assess board membership in terms of gender and diversity, as well as assessing partnerships in terms of responsible production. View SDGs page

Pistoia Alliance

IOS Press has joined the Pistoia Alliance, a not-for-profit members’ organization working to lower barriers to innovation in life science and healthcare R&D through pre-competitive collaboration, and we will be sharing updates to highlight how researchers in our audience can benefit from this exciting new partnership. The alliance team nicely sums up the possibilities: "Together, we overcome common R&D obstacles by identifying root causes, developing standards and best practices, sharing pre-competitive data and knowledge, and executing technology pilots." There are numerous projects with which to get involved, including artificial intelligence, data visualization, and FAIR implementation, and plenty of wide-ranging events. View website

IOS Press Labs

We are incredibly pleased to announce, after months of behind-the-scenes work, that the new IOS Press Labs website is now live. Labs is a virtual space where possibilities can be explored and experiences shared – from the latest technological advancements impacting knowledge dissemination and innovative content developments, to intelligent tools, participation in pioneering scholarly information industry initiatives, and provision of insights into trends in the publishing ecosystem. It is a blog-based platform and you'll see teasers to a number of the posts sprinkled throughout this newsletter. We hope you will visit the site and enjoy reading the posts!

View Website | View Press Release | Latest Blog Post: Welcome to Labs

IOS Press LD Connect

We are thrilled to share the new-look LD Connect with the world! Our linked data portal has been relaunched and updated, providing publicly available linked machine-readable metadata from all IOS Press journals and books. It also constructs artificial intelligence (AI)-powered embeddings derived from all full text data, further unsiloing research data and enriching contextual relationships via its powerful knowledge graph. We have worked in close collaboration with its users to develop a suite of powerful semantic search tools to query and visualize data. The LD Connect Toolbox harnesses the power of AI and machine learning, offering discovery tools that can unlock the relationships and patterns embedded in the data – and help accelerate research (currently in proof of concept stage).

View Website | View Press Release | Blog Post: Knowledge Graphs

Handbook of Satisfiability, Second Edition
Editors: Biere, A., Heule, M., Van Maaren, H., Walsh, T. | Series: FAIA, Vol.336 | This new edition of the classic book originally published in 2009 has been thoroughly updated and revised, capturing the full breadth and depth of satisfiability (SAT), bringing together significant progress and advances in automated solving. It spans practical and theoretical research on SAT and includes proof complexity, preprocessing, automated configuration solver selection, and conflict-driven clause learning. View Book | View Press Release

Perspectives for Digital Social Innovation to Reshape the European Welfare Systems
Editors: Davide, F., Gaggioli, A., Misuraca, G. | Series: SNTPC, Vol.13 | This book addresses the potential and implications of digital social innovation, focusing on key issues such as: the nature and effects of social innovation; structural problems and systemic change; new social risks and challenges; the role of digital thinking and emerging technologies; tolerance of institutions; and the empowerment of marginalized citizens. View book

From Territorial Defeat to Global ISIS: Lessons Learned
Editors: Goldstone, J.A., Alimi, E.Y., Ozeren, S., Cubukcu, S. | Series: NATO-E, Vol.151 | This book covers topics such as: the future of Islamic State (ISIS) after the loss of its territories; maintaining security and stability; analysis of ISIS recruitment and propaganda activities; the processes of radicalization; response to the changing nature of violent extremism; policy recommendations to mitigate the consequences of new threats; and dealing with the exploitation of public fear of terrorism. View book

Human Systems Management: Volume 40

In 2021, Human Systems Management (HSM) celebrates 40 years of publishing content on applied scientific insight into reinventing business, civil-society, and government organizations through the sustainable development of high-technology processes and structures. This landmark occasion is marked with a new cover design and the journal will being publishing six issues per year. "We will maintain our broad scope, open to new paradigms, new technologies, timely adaptations, and trailblazing new authors from all over the world," comments Editor-in-Chief Nada Trunk Širca in her recent editorial in the anniversary issue. This is a special issue on the strategic revival of HSM with guest editor Milan Zeleny, the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal. Articles on this topic will appear in each issue this year and submissions to this section are welcomed by June 30, 2021. View issue

IA: Italian Association for AI Conference

The special issue of Intelligenza Artificiale includes selected and revised papers from the 18th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence. This organization has the role of increasing the knowledge of AI at several levels including by promoting both theoretical and applied research in the field through conferences like this one. Five of the top papers presented at this event were selected for inclusion in the journal after further peer review. View Issue

ISU: Academic Publishing in Europe Conference

This special issue of Information Services & Use (ISU) was published under the title "APE 2020 Driving the Change – Together!" It features selected papers from the 15th International Academic Publishing in Europe Conference. View Issue or access the openly available articles below:

* Vision 2030: Made in China? by Michael Mabe;
* Publishing is Evolving, But Are We? by Andrew James Miller;
* Improving Funding and Publishing Workflows with PIDs by Gabriela Mejias;
* The Big Leap: How to Move From What is Agreed and Done to What Needs to Happen by Eeva Furman (see also Eeva's blog post on this topic here);
* Price Transparency Project: Informing the Development of Plan S by Alicia Wise and Lorraine Estelle;
* An Academic Publishers’ GO FAIR Implementation Network (APIN) by Jan Velterop and Erik Schultes.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS:
During Q1 2021, articles published in the IOS Press journal issues that cover the topic of SDGs include a selection outlined below appearing in the Statistical Journal of the IAOS. There was also a special editorial in the most recent issue of the journal by Steve MacFeely (Co-Chair of the Committee of the Chief Statisticians of the United Nations System) that covers the need for more timely data to support sustainable development.

Estimating current values of sustainable development goal indicators using an integrated assessment modeling platform: “Nowcasting” with International Futures (Open Access) by Barry Hughes et al.

Russian experience in assessing informal employment indicators and their compliance with SDG indicators by Elena Zarova et al.

How can traditional statistical relationships be redefined through citizen to government partnerships? by Javier Andrés Carranza-Torres

Tumor Biology
Open Access Journal

We are very pleased to announce that since January 2021 IOS Press has assumed publication of Tumor Biology, which is now part of our portfolio of open access journals. We are thrilled to be publishing this title, which is the official journal of the International Society of Oncology and BioMarkers. Look out for the first articles appearing on our content platform by the end of April 2021, and if you wish to stay updated about the journal, sign up for news.

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Semantic Web
Open Access Journal

Since its launch, the Semantic Web journal has taken a lead in bringing more transparency to academic publishing due to its open and transparent review process, along with its recent transition to a gold standard open access journal. Now attention is turning to another core aspect: the stable provision of data and software relevant for a published paper. In March, an editorial was published in the journal that outlines a new way of working by implementing a new requirement that authors will need to provide data and software relevant to a paper submission to the maximum extent to which this is feasible.

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