 Luiz Schwarcz to receive The London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award 2017 |
The London Book Fair has announced that the recipient of the LBF Lifetime Achievement Award 2017 will be Luiz Schwarcz, Publisher, Companhia das Letras, Brazil. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognises an individual who has made a truly significant mark in the sphere of global publishing. It is open to publishers, agents, editors, scouts and anyone else involved in international publishing from any country in the world.
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 American Chemical Society’s first OA journal ACS Central Science wins PROSE innovation award |
ACS Central Science, the first fully open access journal published by the American Chemical Society (ACS), has won the PROSE Journal/Award for Innovation. Presented by the Association of American Publishers, the PROSE awards recognise excellence in professional and scholarly publishing. The PROSE innovation award, which acknowledges the unique achievements of new journals, is issued at the judges’ discretion and is not presented every year.
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IOP Publishing and The Biophysical Society announce new partnership to create ebooks program for the biophysics community |
IOP Publishing and the Biophysical Society have announced a new publishing partnership to support the development and dissemination of knowledge in biophysics, through the creation of a comprehensive collection of ebooks. The collaboration will bring the world-leading expertise and domain knowledge of the Biophysical Society into the rapidly developing IOP ebooks program, in order to build a library of content that defines biophysics and serves this growing and diverse research community.
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Western Sydney University and ProQuest team up to offer digital textbooks to students |
The Western Sydney University and ProQuest have collaborated to provide digital textbooks for commencing university students through the University’s library, reducing the cost of education to students and increasing access to required learning materials. One of the world’s largest initiatives of its kind, Western Sydney University is differentiating itself from other universities by making etextbooks from 60 academic publishers available to students via Ebook Central, ProQuest’s innovative new ebook platform.
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 OASPA to host Twitter Chat on open access publishing in the Global South |
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) will host a live Twitter chat about open access publishing in the Global South with Xin Bi (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University/DOAJ), Ina Smith (Academy of Science of South Africa), Abel Packer (SciELO), and Lars Bjørnshauge (DOAJ) on February 22, 2017, from 1pm-2pm BST (8am EST). Participants may tweet their questions about open access publishing in the Global South using the hashtag #OASPAChat, and Xin, Ina, Abel and Lars will be there to answer them in real time.
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Prof. David Mitlin named Associate Editor of new Royal Society of Chemistry journal |
Prof. David Mitlin, Clarkson University Professor / GE Chair in Oil and Gas Systems, has been named an associate editor for Sustainable Energy & Fuels, a new journal by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The journal is an international journal publishing research that contributes to the development of sustainable energy technologies with a particular emphasis on new and next-generation technologies.
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International Water Association extends its use of Aries’ technology with the adoption of ProduXion Manager |
Online submission system provider Aries Systems Corporation has announced the adoption of its web-based journal production tracking system, ProduXion Manager, by IWA Publishing. Commencing in 2017, IWA Publishing will roll-out ProduXion Manager to its journals to facilitate post-acceptance workflow. Manuscript files and metadata are automatically transferred to workflow participants, such as copy editors and vendors.
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 Latest edition of Blogspeak now online |
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The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Sharon McCulloch (The importance of being REF-able: academic writing under pressure from a culture of counting); John Tennant (Providing Context for Research and the Ever-Evolving Field of Altmetrics); Jack Grove (A Call to Punish Tardy Journal Editors); Angela Cochran (How Many Grains of Salt Must We Take When Looking at Metrics?); EBSCOpost (The Increasing Importance of Lifelong Learning in Healthcare, and Especially Nursing); and Graham Kendall (Why you should care about the rise of fake journals and the bad science they publish). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here. |
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