Registrations now open for upcoming ORCID Outreach Meeting - March 16, 2015
The Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) has announced that registration for upcoming ORCID Outreach Meeting is now open. The ORCID Outreach Meeting is a joint conference, organised together with CASRAI, and hosted by the University of Barcelona. The conference will explore the way that research… Read More
Jisc Digital Festival presents best digital talent under the theme ‘connect more’ - March 16, 2015
Teachers, IT managers, librarians, lecturers and research managers from across the UK were given the chance to discuss the positive impact of technology on further and higher education and discover new tools and approaches to its use at this year's Jisc Digital Festival. Held in… Read More
AIP Publishing launches ecommerce site powered by Sheridan for print-on-demand conference proceedings - March 16, 2015
AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), has launched a branded eCommerce site - printorders.aip.org - to offer print copies of conference proceedings direct to consumers. The solution is an integration of two Sheridan technologies - Sheridan… Read More
IU Libraries and partners receive two grants totalling $931,000 from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - March 16, 2015
Indiana University has received two grants totalling $931,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support further development of the Avalon Media System and a study of new business models for scholarly publishing. The first of these grants provides $750,000 to the IU Libraries and… Read More
Article explores disruptive potential of new research retrieval tool ‘Article Galaxy Widget’ for researchers - March 16, 2015
Reprints Desk, Inc., a Research Solutions company and document delivery supplier for scientific, technical and medical (STM) information, has announced the immediate full-text availability of the article 'The Ultimate Sophistication: Reprints Desk Launches its Article Galaxy Widget,' created by independent research and advisory firm Outsell, Inc.… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - March 16, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Joseph Esposito (What We Got Wrong About Books); Andrew Whitehouse (The scientific publishing culture is broken - can it be rescued?); Phil Davis (Knockoffs Erode Trust in Metrics Market); Pete Etchells and Chris Chambers (The games we play: A troubling… Read More
