The National Library of Medicine expands access to Coronavirus literature via PubMed Central – March 26, 2020
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) of the National Institutes of Health is working on multiple fronts to aid in the COVID-19 response through new initiatives with the global publishing community and artificial intelligence researchers. NLM is expanding access to scientific papers on coronavirus for researchers,… Read More
ConTech 2020 extends call for speakers – March 26, 2020
In light of the current global situation, ConTech 2020 is extending the call for speakers to April 21, 2020. ConTech 2020 has reduced the requirements on the form to allow a quick and easy submission. ConTech 2020, which is scheduled to take place from December… Read More
Elsevier Infographic: Global Research Trends in Infectious Diseases – March 26, 2020
Over the past two decades, the world has faced several infectious disease outbreaks. Ebola, Influenza A (H1N1), SARS, MERS, Zika virus and currently COVID-19 have had a massive global impact in terms of economic disruption, strain on local and global public health resources and, above all, human health. Using… Read More
American Chemical Society and MIT sign innovative North American open access agreement – March 26, 2020
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries have announced a new and innovative agreement, which will advance key elements of open access. Through this agreement, all ACS journal articles with MIT-affiliated… Read More
RSC Chemical Biology becomes first Royal Society of Chemistry journal to adopt transparent peer review – March 26, 2020
RSC Chemical Biology has become the first Royal Society of Chemistry journal to adopt transparent peer review – meaning that reviewers’ comments can be read publically. The move is part of RSC’s commitment to make research and decision-making more open, robust and accessible. RSC Chemical… Read More
HTRC calls for proposals for Spring 2020 ACS Program – March 26, 2020
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is calling for proposals for its Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) Program, a scholarly service offering collaboration between researchers and HTRC staff to solve challenging problems related to computational analysis of the HathiTrust corpus. For this round of projects, HTRC will… Read More
Frontiers and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences form open access publishing agreement – March 26, 2020
Frontiers and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences have announced an open access publishing agreement. Western Norway University of Applied Sciences is supporting their authors in publishing open access. As part of this support, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences will cover Article Processing Charges (APCs)… Read More
