ConTech 2018 closes on a high |
The first ever ConTech conference took place last week at the Chelsea Harbour Hotel, London, UK. Attendees witnessed three first class and completely different keynotes, ground breaking speaker sessions as well as a pharma focused special session. Multiple networking opportunities and the addition of the DataBeers event on day 1 gave delegates the chance to share, learn and network. More Search for more news in this Category |
SAGE signs ORCID open letter to support better recognition for researchers |
As part of SAGE Publishing’s commitment to ethical, transparent and fair peer review SAGE has signed theORCID open letter along with other stakeholders. Committing to mandating ORCID in accordance with the best practice for publishers, this step ensures better recognition and accreditation for researchers as well as supporting author and researcher compliance with funding mandates. More Search for more news in this Category |
EUROfusion accepts AIP Publishing’s standard license to publish |
AIP Publishing has announced that authors whose work was carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium will now be able to accept AIP Publishing’s standard license to publish. Authors will be alerted to the new option during the submission process and will no longer be required to supply additional licensing forms. This will streamline and accelerate the publishing process for researchers who are subject to the intellectual property requirements of participating EUROfusion organisations. More Search for more news in this Category |
Max Planck Digital Library and F1000 in deal to cover cost for MPDL affiliated authors to publish in F1000Research |
An agreement between F1000 and the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) will cover the cost for Max Planck Society-affiliated authors to publish on F1000Research, making it free for the authors. The F1000Research publishing model has been designed to remove unnecessary barriers and delays that researchers often face when sharing their research findings. It operates a post-publication, open peer review publishing model which combines the benefits of pre-printing (immediate publication) with expert peer review (quality assurance). More Search for more news in this Category |
John Adams re-elected chair of the American Chemical Society’s board of directors |
Dr. John E. Adams has been re-elected chair of the board of directors of the American Chemical Society (ACS). As chair of the board, Adams will ensure that strategic planning and evaluation of progress toward strategic goals occur, among other duties. He will begin another one-year term on January 1, 2019. More Search for more news in this Category |
eLife to develop SwipesForScience to speed up research |
eLife is collaborating with participants from its inaugural Innovation Sprint earlier this year to develop SwipesForScience, a templating service that lets researchers quickly create mobile-friendly games that allow players to help with analysing large amounts of research data. The prototype of SwipesForScience, developed at the eLife Innovation Sprint and originally called Appstract, used natural-language processing to mine free-text descriptions of scientific research and identify numerical data and text within them. More Search for more news in this Category |
Chiba University launches new academic resource collection, c-arc |
Chiba University has launched a new academic resource collection named ‘Chiba University Academic Resource Collections (c-arc)’ which makes all content published and provided by Chiba University Libraries widely available on the web. This website is a new infrastructure to realise ‘Digital Scholarship,’ which promotes using digital content to research, education, and learning materials. Not only students and researchers at Chiba University, but anyone can use this open resource. More Search for more news in this Category |
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