 Registration for London Info International 2016 still open |
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London Info International 2016 opens the doors to its conference and exhibition in a few days. The global information community will gather there next week. An updated list of organisations and participants has been published and the organisers are looking forward to welcoming all delegates, visitors, sponsors, exhibitors and partners from all over the world to London. More Search for more news in this Category |
 Major publishers sign the ORCID Open Letter |
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In January 2016, eight publishers signed an open letter committing their organisations to requiring ORCID iDs for journal authors. The eight original signatories were joined by a further 12 publishers in the months that followed, and 10 publishers have now gone live with their ORCID requirement. On November 28, their efforts received a significant boost when two major societies – the American Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry – and one of the world’s largest scholarly publishers, Wiley, signed the letter. More Search for more news in this Category |
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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Online Education examines the revolutionary rise of online learning |
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Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced the launch of The SAGE Encyclopedia of Online Education. Launching as a three-volume set, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Online Education addresses an array of issues related to online learning with a central focus on the effective education of students. Interdisciplinary in scope, the text includes more than 350 entries on key topics. More Search for more news in this Category |
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ALPSP partners with UCL Press and Liverpool University Press Association to deliver the University Press Redux Conference biennially |
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Following the success of the founding University Press Redux conference, organised by Liverpool University Press (LUP) and held in March 2016, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)has announced a partnership with the presses to deliver the event every two years. The next event to be held in spring 2018 will be hosted and curated by UCL Press in London. More Search for more news in this Category |
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American Society of Hematology to debut new OA journal Blood Advances at 58th Annual Meeting in San Diego |
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American Society of Hematology has announced the launch of the open-access online journal Blood Advances. Blood has led the way in experimental and clinical hematologic research as the flagship journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH). Blood Advances will fill a niche that complements and expands on topics covered in Blood while also transforming the conversation between authors and readers through innovative communication tools. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awards grant for arXiv upgrade |
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arXiv.org, the influential open access repository for global scientific research, will begin the first phase of a three-year overhaul and modernization with the help of a $445,000 grant by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Sloan Foundation grant will fund the creation of a detailed blueprint for next-generation arXiv – to be known as arXiv-NG – allowing planners to establish new partnerships, identify necessary resources and build a core development team to lead the modernization process. More Search for more news in this Category |
 German hbz Consortium selects Ex Libris Rosetta digital asset management and preservation solution |
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Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein Westfalen (hbz) has chosen the Ex Libris Rosetta digital asset management and preservation solution to serve the consortium’s member institutions. More than 40 hbz member institutions from North Rhine-Westphalia will be able to deposit digital collections and research data in the central Rosetta system and use Rosetta to manage and preserve these assets. More Search for more news in this Category |
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