IEEE and IHA join forces to advance innovation across ehealth ecosystems - April 15, 2015
Technical professional organisation IEEE has announced a joint effort between IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA), IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE-EMBS) and the Intelligent Health Association (IHA). These organisations are working cooperatively to advance development and promotion of interoperable, standards-based solutions, and to introduce new… Read More
Prof. David Maguire to succeed Prof. Martin Hall as Jisc chair - April 15, 2015
Professor David Maguire, vice-chancellor at the University of Greenwich, has been appointed into the role of Jisc chair. David is currently a Jisc trustee and in the past year has served as a member of the board of Jisc trustees, working alongside other senior leaders… Read More
SHARE unveils beta version of free notification service, SHARE Notify - April 15, 2015
SHARE has launched a public beta version of its free notification service, SHARE Notify, to make research more widely accessible, discoverable, and reusable. Stakeholders in the research enterprise - funding agencies, institutions, and individual researchers - often find it challenging to keep track of new research… Read More
Cambridge University Press unveils new Open Access Monograph Publishing Service - April 15, 2015
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press is launching a new Open Access Monograph Publishing Service offering authors a way to publish their books via open access in a fairly priced way. This new service gives authors the option of publishing their work under the Gold Open… Read More
APA to publish Online Journal Behavioral Development Bulletin - April 15, 2015
The American Psychological Association has announced that it will begin publishing the online journal Behavioral Development Bulletin® in April. The biannual journal, previously published by Behavior Analyst Online, covers research in cognitive and emotional development, developmental theory, socialisation, education and speech-language pathology. Broadly focused on issues… Read More
Springer and Altmetric launch Bookmetrix, a new platform for book impact - April 14, 2015
STM publisher Springer has become the first publisher to offer title and chapter level metrics across all of their books via a new platform, Bookmetrix. Developed in partnership with metrics provider Altmetric, the data captured via Bookmetrix is displayed on the book pages on Springer’s content… Read More