Informa PLC Informa adds F1000 Research to Taylor & Francis (3743Z)
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Informa PLC Press Release
10 January 2020
Informa adds F1000 Research to the Taylor & Francis Open
Access Portfolio
London: Informa (LSE: INF.L), the International Exhibitions,
Events, Information Services and Advanced Learning Group, today
announces further investment in developing its Open Access ("OA")
publishing capabilities through the addition of F1000 Research Ltd.
by Taylor & Francis.
Stephen A. Carter, Group Chief Executive, Informa PLC, said:
"Under the leadership of Annie Callanan in Taylor & Francis, we
are deepening our Open Access and also now our Open Research capabilities."
He added:
"F1000 Research is a leader in its field, committed to the further
development of independent, high quality Open Science and Research.
We are delighted to welcome Rebecca Lawrence and the team from
F1000 Research, and are committed to the further technology and
capability development that Open Research needs."
Vitek Tracz, Founder, F1000, said:
"F1000 Research is a pioneer of quality and independence, with
a deep commitment to Open Science and Research. Taylor & Francis
is a great fit culturally and its commitment to further investment
and development is timely, given the likely acceleration of Open
services."
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F1000 Research Ltd. offers fully managed, open research
publishing services directly to research funders, learned societies
and institutions, including the Wellcome Trust and the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation.
Additionally, F1000Research is the leading independent open
research publishing platform for scientists and academic scholars.
Its innovative platform enables the rapid publication of academic
research, whilst maintaining quality and transparency, and
providing authors with greater autonomy through the process.
The addition of F1000 Research complements and extends Taylor
& Francis's programme of investment to expand our presence and
capabilities within the increasingly important OA publishing arena.
It follows the addition of leading independent OA journal
publisher, Dove Medical Press, in 2017 and ongoing internal
investment in developing our range of OA publications and services,
with more than 300 OA journals now published across our total
journal portfolio of over 2,700 titles.
No financial details of the transaction were disclosed.
Enquiries
Informa PLC
Stephen A. Carter, Group Chief Executive
Gareth Wright, Group Finance Director +44 (0)20 7017 5771
Richard Menzies-Gow, Director of IR +44 (0)20 7017 7096
& Comms +44 (0)20 3377 3445
Teneo Strategy
Tim Burt / Zoë Watt +44 (0)20 7240 2486
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Notes to Editors
Informa PLC
Informa is a leading international Exhibitions, Events,
Information Services and Scholarly Publishing Group with annual
revenues approaching GBP3 billion. It helps commercial,
professional and academic communities work smarter and make better
decisions faster, through specialist content and intelligence, and
opportunities to connect and learn. For more information, please
visit www.informa.com.
About F1000 Research Ltd.
F1000 Research Ltd. provides innovative open access publishing
platforms offering rapid publication and open peer review, whilst
supporting data deposition and sharing for the research
community.
F1000 Research Ltd.'s own publishing platform, F1000Research,
was launched in 2013 and was the first open research publishing
platform combining the ability to publish rapidly with
functionality to ensure transparency, robustness and
reproducibility of research. F1000Research's publishing model
combines the benefits of 'pre-printing' (providing rapid
publication) with quality and transparency (open data support and
invited open peer review) and enables publication within days of
submission, followed by open invited peer review.
Building upon the growth and success of its core platform, F1000
Research Ltd. also provides fully managed, open research publishing
services directly to research funders and institutions, including
Wellcome, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Health
Research Board Ireland, as well as to other scholarly publishers
such as Emerald Publishing. F1000 Research combines opportunities
offered by technology with a passion for identifying new ways to
validate and share research.
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