SAE International adopts Aries Systems’ Editorial Manager manuscript service for Journals and Technical Paper process - June 26, 2017
SAE International has adopted Aries Systems’ Editorial Manager® system for use with its Journals and Written-Only Technical Paper process. Editorial Manager is a cloud-based manuscript submission and peer-review tracking system for scholarly journals, reference works, books and other publications. The new system will provide a… Read More
EBSCO Information Services announces 2017 EBSCO Solar grant winners - June 26, 2017
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is awarding its 2017 EBSCO Solar grant to the Athens-Clarke County Library in Athens, Georgia and The Indian Trails Public Library in Wheeling, Illinois. The grants will provide each library with $100,000 to pay for the installation of a solar array. The… Read More
PeerJ announces PeerJ Collection for SMBE 2017 attendees to make their abstracts publicly available - June 26, 2017
PeerJ will be publishing a PeerJ Collection for the upcoming Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE 2017) in Austin, TX. The meeting will take place from July 2–6, 2017. All speakers and poster presenters are encouraged to submit their accepted abstracts… Read More
OCLC celebrates 50 years of innovation and collaboration with libraries worldwide - June 26, 2017
OCLC, the library technology and research organisation that changed the way libraries work, is celebrating 50 years of innovation and collaboration with libraries around the world. On July 6, 1967, the non-profit Ohio College Library Center was established to create a shared electronic library for… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - June 26, 2017
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Sven E. Hug and Martin P. Brändle (Microsoft Academic is on the verge of becoming a bibliometric superpower); Roy Kaufman (Can you Trust It? Using Open Access Materials in the Corporate World); Ramya Sriram (How Academia Can Use the Power… Read More
The Association of American Publishers welcomes judgment against ‘Sci-Hub’ pirate site - June 23, 2017
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) welcomes the June 21, 2017 ruling of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York regarding the wilful infringement of scores of scholarly articles protected by copyright law. Ruling in favour of Elsevier, the publisher that… Read More
