Wolters Kluwer Lippincott journals win 20 APEX awards – July 27, 2020

Wolters Kluwer, Health has announced that 13 of its Lippincott healthcare publications won 20 awards in the 32nd annual APEX Awards. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery won the Grand Award for Campaigns and Programs, Neurology Today and Oncology Times won Grand Awards for Writing, and Nursing Management… Read More

FOLIO’s Goldenrod Release signifies core functionality now available to libraries looking to implement FOLIO – July 27, 2020

The FOLIO Open Source Community has issued its latest named release opening the way for many sites to adopt FOLIO. The Goldenrod Release signifies the completion of Version One (V1) ILS functionality for the FOLIO Library Services Platform (LSP). The open source project, which leverages… Read More

New NEH grant to support Cornell University Press’ open-access effort – July 27, 2020

A new grant to Cornell University Press (CUP) from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will support scholarly communication through open-access publishing in collaboration with Cornell University Library. The $103,336 economic stabilisation grant will fund a new project, Open Access… Read More

NIH to invest $58M to catalyse data science and health research discoveries across Africa – July 27, 2020

The National Institutes of Health has launched a $58 million initiative to advance data science, catalyse innovation and spur health discoveries across Africa. The new five-year program, Harnessing Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa (DS-I Africa), will leverage existing… Read More

Latest edition of Blogspeak now online – July 27, 2020

The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Daan Kolkman (Is public accountability possible in algorithmic policymaking? The case for a public watchdog); Steve Sieck (The pandemic pushed publishing into the digital realm. So what’s next?); Donald Samulack (Publishing in an open access journal: How do you maximise… Read More