SAGE Publishing announces winners of 2020 SAGE Ocean Concept Grant – May 11, 2020

Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced the winners of the 2020 SAGE Ocean Concept Grant, with £15,000 awarded to Knowsir, a GDPR-compliant portal for researchers and participants to manage their consent relationship. Five further grants of £2,000 are… Read More

Macmillan Learning’s digital learning platform, Achieve, certified as a research-based product by Digital Promise – May 11, 2020

Macmillan Learning has announced that digital learning platform Achieve is the first product designed for higher education to earn the ‘Research-Based Design’ product certification by Digital Promise. Achieve includes learning materials with a comprehensive set of interconnected teaching and assessment tools, and… Read More

UKRI signs statement on sharing COVID-19 data and research findings – May 11, 2020

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has joined funding agencies and organisations across the world in committing to the rapid and widespread sharing of research data and findings relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic to help the global effort against the virus. UKRI has signed a statement… Read More

Knowledge Unlatched strengthens its presence in China – May 11, 2020

Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the international Open Access initiative, is expanding its cooperation with trade partners around the world to further intensify its services to libraries in an important region. Libraries in the People’s Republic of China are now able to work with KU via their local… Read More

Latest edition of Blogspeak now online – May 11, 2020

The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Christos Petrou (Guest Post – The megajournal lifecycle); Maria Hodges (Transparency, Openness and Peer Review); Giovanni Colavizza, Isla Staden, Kirstie Whitaker and Barbara McGillivray (A selfish reason to share research data); Helen Kennedy (Simple data visualisations have become key to… Read More