Pure Earth to preserve e-journals with Portico - February 9, 2016
Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that Pure Earth will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future. Pure Earth is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to solving pollution problems in low- and middle-income countries, where human health… Read More
Elsevier wins eight PROSE Awards categories, including Award for Excellence, and nine honorable mentions - February 8, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that it has won top honours in eight 2016 PROSE Awards categories, including a PROSE Award for Excellence, and nine honourable mentions. The 40th annual PROSE Awards - the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence - were presented… Read More
ITHAKA S+R releases new report on costs of publishing scholarly monographs - February 8, 2016
AAUP heralds ITHAKA S+R's publication of 'The Costs of Publishing Monographs: Towards a Transparent Methodology.' The study, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and conducted by Nancy Maron and Kimberly Schmelzinger, developed a ground-up, activity-based methodology for… Read More
European University Association publishes ‘Roadmap on Open Access to Research Publications’ - February 8, 2016
European University Association (EUA) has published its 'Roadmap on Open Access to Research Publications' after an endorsement from the EUA Council at its meeting on January 29, 2016. The main objective of the roadmap is to assist universities in the transition to Open Access (OA). More… Read More
New publishing platform to improve reproducibility of preclinical research - February 8, 2016
Championed by Amgen's Senior Vice President for Research, Sasha Kamb, and former Editor-in-Chief of Science and F1000Research International Advisory Board member Bruce Alberts (University of California, San Francisco), the Preclinical Reproducibility and Robustness channel is open for everyone to publish and discuss confirmatory or non-confirmatory scientific… Read More
SHARE initiative to host preconference workshop and curate-a-thon at FORCE2016 Conference - February 8, 2016
The SHARE initiative is offering a preconference workshop and curate-a-thon on April 17 in Portland, Oregon, at the FORCE2016 Conference organised by FORCE11, which aims to improve knowledge creation and sharing by encouraging better use of new technologies. SHARE is building… Read More
