National Research Council of Science & Technology and Elsevier agree to provide open access publishing access to researchers – December 21, 2020
South Korea’s National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST) and Elsevier, a global research publishing and information analytics provider, have announced a new three-year agreement that will provide South Korean researchers access to global academic research and offer them Open Access (OA) publishing… Read More
Springer Nature joins SDG Publishers Compact – December 21, 2020
Springer Nature has joined SDG Publishers Compact to accelerate delivery of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through journals such as Nature Sustainability and Nature Climate Change, books series including the Sustainable Development Goals Encyclopedia and dedicated SDG content hubs, Springer Nature is a… Read More
Clarivate, the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Higher Education Press of China release Engineering Fronts 2020 – December 21, 2020
Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and the Higher Education Press of China have released their joint report, ‘Engineering Fronts 2020’… Read More
University of Buckingham Press publishes International Journal of Maritime Engineering – December 21, 2020
University of Buckingham Press (UBP) has reached an agreement with the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) to publish its existing publication, the International Journal of Maritime Engineering (IJME). The first Issue under the joint-venture agreement will be published around April 2021 with quarterly Issues published thereafter.… Read More
Paul Jagodzinski selected as chair of American Chemical Society’s board of directors – December 21, 2020
Dr. Paul Jagodzinski has been selected as chair of the board of directors of the American Chemical Society (ACS), a scientific membership organisation with more than 152,000 members, effective January 1, 2021. As chair of the Society’s 16-member chief governing body, Jagodzinski will preside over board… Read More
The Royal College of Art joins ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Publishing program – December 21, 2020
The London-based Royal College of Art (RCA) has joined the ProQuest® Dissertations & Theses publishing program to contribute its graduate students’ dissertations and theses to the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global® (PQDT) database, the leading global source of emerging research from universities around the world. Consistently… Read More
Dr. Heather F. Smith selected as new Editor-in-Chief for The Anatomical Record – December 21, 2020
Following a recent 15-year history of unprecedented growth in publishing exciting discoveries in the fields of integrative anatomy and evolutionary biology, and establishing the journal as an international venue, The Anatomical Record (AR) is poised for even more innovation in the coming years through transition of the journal’s Editor-in-Chief (EIC).… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online – December 21, 2020
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Robert Harington (Transformative agreements, funders and the publishing ecosystem: a lack of focus on equity); Holly Else (How a torrent of COVID science changed research publishing — in seven charts); Laura Brown and Roger C. Schonfeld (The state of not-for-profit… Read More
