 Elsevier announces Global Engineering Academic Challenge 2017 |
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Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, has announced that the Engineering Academic Challenge (EAC) 2017 will begin on September 18, 2017. The bi-annual five-week challenge enables engineering teachers and librarians around the world to integrate real-world problem-solving into their STEM education communities. More Search for more news in this Category |
 ALPSP Awards 2017 winners announced |
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The winners of the 2017 ALPSP Awards were announced at the ALPSP Conference Dinner on September 14.The ALPSP Council presented the 2017 ALPSP Award for Contribution to Scholarly Publishing to Sara Miller McCune, Founder and Executive Chairman, SAGE Publishing. Additionally, the judges announced two winners – Publons and SourceData from EMBO – for the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Clarivate Analytics announces Dr. Jian Wang as winner of Eugene Garfield Award |
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Clarivate Analytics has announced the recipient of its first competition for the Eugene Garfield Award for Innovation in Citation Analysis, at a memorial symposium for Dr. Eugene Garfield, to commemorate and celebrate his contributions to the field of information retrieval and scientometrics. Dr. Jian Wang, Assistant Professor at the Science Based Business Program, Faculty of Science, Leiden University in the Netherlands, was selected for the award among many creative, high-quality applications. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Publishers join NLM initiative to launch Emergency Access Initiative, granting free access to books and journals for libraries impacted by hurricanes Harvey and Irma |
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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has activated the Emergency Access Initiative (EAI) in response to Hurricanes Irma and Harvey which devastated Florida and several Caribbean islands, as well as parts of South Carolina, Texas, and Louisiana. The EAI is a collaborative partnership between NLM and participating publishers to provide free access to full-text from more than 650 biomedical journals and more than 4,000 reference books and online databases to healthcare professionals and libraries affected by disasters. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Hindawi and AAAS sign publishing partnership |
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Hindawi has announced the signing of a publishing partnership agreement with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Hindawi will support AAAS by providing post-acceptance publishing services for AAAS’s new Science Partner Journal publishing program. AAAS anticipates its first partner journal will launch in early 2018. More Search for more news in this Category |
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SPIE Digital Library moves to new site with improved, agile functionality |
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Scholarly publisher SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced the move of theSPIE Digital Library on August 15 to a new and substantially enhanced website. Developed internally by SPIE to create an improved user experience and incorporate a number of enhancements and new features, the website housing and distributing SPIE’s conference proceedings, journals, and eBooks has been completely redesigned and re-engineered. More Search for more news in this Category |
 Latest edition of Blogspeak now online |
| The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Tony Ross-Hellauer (Open peer review: bringing transparency, accountability, and inclusivity to the peer review process); Phil Davis (Do We Need A Self-Citation Index?); Josh Clark (Altmetric at the University of Surrey); Karin Wulf (Does Born-Digital Mean Rethinking Peer Review?); and Arlyana Saliman (Scientific journal credibility: Would the R-factor be the way to go?). 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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