HHS releases plans for public access to federally funded research - March 9, 2015
On February 27, 2015, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released implementation plans for five HHS agencies based on a common policy approach in response to the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) 2013 memorandum regarding public access to federally funded research.… Read More
France’s UNICANCER selects TEMIS and SWORD to accelerate clinical research by analyzing patients’ Electronic Health Records - March 9, 2015
Semantic Content Enrichment solutions provider TEMIS has announced that its solution Luxid® has been chosen by France's UNICANCER, the Federation of French Cancer Centers (CLCCs), as the semantic module for its ConSoRe (Continuum Soin-Recherche) project driven by SWORD Consulting and Services. Clinical Trials help progress… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - March 9, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Gary Moorman and Peggy Semingson (Journals Need Digital Integration to Stay Relevant); Alice Meadows (Flipping, not Flopping: Converting Subscription Journals to Open Access); Anneliese Taylor (Science Publishing: Sharing articles via academic networks); Joseph Esposito (The Context of Scientific Publishing); and… Read More
NFAIS selects OCLC’s Mary Sauer-Games as new Board of Directors President - March 6, 2015
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS™), a membership association for the information services industry, has announced the selection of Mary Sauer-Games, OCLC Vice President of Product Management, as its new Board of Directors President. Sauer-Games begins a one-year term as Board President, succeeding… Read More
Springer starts pilot project on Linked Open Data - March 6, 2015
STM publisher Springer has now opened selected metadata from conference publications, heeding the European Commission's call for promoting open data. The term Linked Open Data (LOD) refers to structured, machine-readable data, which more and more researchers and librarians are now using in their work. Springer belongs… Read More
Directory of Open Access Journals introduces new standards to help community address quality concerns - March 6, 2015
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a comprehensive international database of more than 10,000 Open Access journals, recently implemented a rigorous new vetting process that aims to raise the bar of quality for the journals it lists and filters out publications that are tarnishing the… Read More
