 Presentations and discussions at COAR annual meeting 2016 |
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The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) conducted its Annual Meeting and General Assembly on April 12-13, 2016 in Vienna/Austria. Through a diverse mix of conference sessions, round-table discussions and open dialogue, the meeting pushed attendees to examine the future of repositories and the challenges and opportunities for international collaboration. More Search for more news in this Category |
 Over twenty publishers now use HighWire’s Impact Vizor for faster, easier ‘evidenced-based’ publishing insights |
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HighWire Press, Inc., the publishing technology platform provider for renowned scholarly publishers and societies, has announced that twenty-one publishers now use Impact Vizor, a suite of interactive, visualised analytics viewers which launched in August 2015. Impact Vizor was an ALPSP 2015 Award for Innovation in Publishing finalist. Today publishers use the seven dashboards in Impact Vizor to visualise, analyse and compare editorial programs for rapid insights. HighWire developed the tools with critical input from several publishers. More Search for more news in this Category |
 Emerald recognises and rewards research excellence |
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Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has announced the winners of the 2015 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence. Now in its 23rd year, this awards programme is one of the largest, independent award schemes run by a publishing company – recognising and rewarding the outstanding contributions of the Emerald Literati Network to scholarly research. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Plymouth University plays a role in two BMJ Awards winners |
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Two winning projects from this year’s national BMJ Awards have included important input from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry (PUPSMD). Winner of the Neurology Team Award was a project entitled enhanced safety in epilepsy. This is a partnership between Plymouth University, Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust and epilepsy charity SUDEP Action. More Search for more news in this Category |
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New De Gruyter journal emphasizes more research on pleura and peritoneum |
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A new De Gruyter journal Pleura and Peritoneum aims to reinvigorate research into the relatively obscure membranes that protect the lungs and abdomen. In order to give research into the pleura and peritoneum more weight and attention, Prof. Marc A. Reymond of Ruhr University Bochum has founded the journal Pleura and Peritoneum together with other internationally renowned researchers. Prof. Reymond is serving as editor-in-chief. More Search for more news in this Category |
 Latest edition of Blogspeak now online |
| The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Society for Scholarly Publishing (Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting Crosses Boundaries, Borders and Aims to Break Down Barriers); Paul van der Vet (Dealing with retractions); Todd A Carpenter (STM Future Trends 2020 provides publishers insights on the currents affecting them); and William St Clair (Are the ‘gatekeepers’ becoming censors? On editorial processes and the interests of the scholarly community.). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here. |
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