De Gruyter and Dutch Universities signs Open Access license agreement - June 13, 2016
The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) and the academic publisher De Gruyter have signed an agreement that provides for the publication of an unlimited number of Open Access articles in De Gruyter's hybrid journals. The portfolio available to Dutch scholars… Read More
W3C and IDPF to organise one-day Publishing Community Meeting at W3C TPAC 2016 - June 13, 2016
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) are organizing a one-day Publishing Community Meeting during W3C's largest annual event, TPAC (Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee week). The Publishing Community Meeting at W3C TPAC (Lisbon, Portugal)… Read More
Cochrane partners with four leading organisations to host the first Global Evidence Summit in 2017 - June 13, 2016
Cochrane, together with four other leading organisations in the production and dissemination of evidence for decision making in the global health, social, and economic policy and practice sectors – has announced the first 'Global Evidence Summit' in Cape Town, South Africa. Next year, Cochrane, a… Read More
The UK Government commissions Tech Partnership to create standards for basic digital skills - June 13, 2016
The Tech Partnership has been asked by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to define the standards for basic digital skills – the skills that everyone needs for life in a digitally-enabled world; for getting… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - June 13, 2016
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Alice Meadows (Mind the Gap: Gender Disparity in Scholarly Publishing Revisited); Kent Anderson (Divided We Fall - How a Fragmented Media Space Affects Academia and Scholarly Publishing); Mark Western (We need more solution-oriented social science: on changing our frames of… Read More
Thomson Reuters introduces Thomson IP Manager Core Solutions, provides comprehensive IP management for mid-sized corporations - June 10, 2016
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the introduction of Thomson IP Manager Core Solutions, offering a comprehensive set of preconfigured workflows with automated step-by-step IP management processes for all critical elements of IP lifecycle management and ideal for mid-sized companies. Historically,… Read More
