SSP 42nd Annual Meeting – Tracks and Highlights announced – January 16, 2020
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has announced that its 42nd Annual Meeting, “Rethink, Reimagine, & Revolutionize the Future of Scholarly Communication,” is scheduled to be held from May 27-29, 2020, in Boston, MA. Registration opens in early February. Inspired by… Read More
Cambridge University Press and Spanish National Research Council announce transformative Open Access agreement – January 16, 2020
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has reached a transformative Open Access agreement with the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC). The three-year ‘read and publish’ deal is the first such agreement between a university press and Spanish research institutions, and the first… Read More
SPIE and BIBSAM announce three-year ‘Read and Publish’ agreement – January 16, 2020
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced a new three-year ‘Read and Publish’ agreement with the Bibsam Consortium in Sweden. The three-year agreement, the first ‘Read and Publish’ agreement that SPIE has signed, began January 1, 2020. It incorporates read access to… Read More
Taylor & Francis Online supports clinical trial data linking – January 16, 2020
Taylor & Francis Online now links clinical trial data to published articles and automatically deposits this data to Crossref and PubMed, when authors supply the clinical trial numbers within a manuscript. Currently, Taylor & Francis publishes over 250 journals in the Medicine and Health subject… Read More
ARL and the Coalition for Networked Information release report on the 2019 ARL-CNI Fall Forum, Research Libraries as Catalytic Leaders in a Society in Constant Flux – January 16, 2020
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) have released a report on the 2019 ARL-CNI Fall Forum, Research Libraries as Catalytic Leaders in a Society in Constant Flux. As universities and other learning environments evolve to… Read More
GeoScienceWorld’s geoscience journal, Lithosphere, opens for submissions – January 16, 2020
GeoScienceWorld (GSW), a non-profit collaborative and comprehensive resource for research and communications in the Earth Sciences, is now inviting submissions to Lithosphere, a community-driven geoscience journal formerly published by The Geological Society of America (GSA), a GSW partner society. Lithosphere will provide a unique publishing choice… Read More
Dr. Michael J. Bamshad named inaugural Editor-in-Chief of ASHG’s new OA journal, HGG Advances – January 16, 2020
The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has announced that Dr. Michael J. Bamshad has been named the inaugural editor-in-chief of Human Genetics and Genomics Advances (HGG Advances), the new open access journal of the Society, which will begin accepting submissions in spring 2020. Bamshad is… Read More