Submissions deadline for ALPSP Awards 2017 extended to May 26 - May 22, 2017
ALPSP has extended the submissions deadline for the Awards to May 26 (6:00pm UK BST), due to popular demand. The Awards celebrate the best in the industry - new products or projects which are challenging the norm and transforming publishing. This might be a new… Read More
James Cook University College of Medicine and Dentistry, John Libbey Eurotext and Dedicated Juncture Researcher’s Association to preserve e-journals with Portico - May 22, 2017
Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that James Cook University College of Medicine and Dentistry will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future. The College of Medicine and Dentistry is a constituent body of James Cook University.… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - May 22, 2017
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Charlie Rapple (Does Sharing of an Unpublished Thesis Create Enough Harm to Imprison Someone?); , Claire Horner-Devine, Cara Margherio, Sheri Mizumori and Joyce Yen (Peer Mentoring Circles: A strategy for thriving in science); Publons Blog (A Glimpse Into the Future… Read More
John Wiley and Sons, Inc. announces new partnership with Overleaf, enables author collaboration - May 19, 2017
Publisher John Wiley and Sons, Inc. has announced a new partnership with Overleaf, a cloud-based, collaborative authoring tool, that makes writing, editing and submitting research for publication quicker and easier. This new partnership reflects Wiley's commitment to offering exceptional author service and will further enhance the… Read More
Elsevier appoints Jean P. Shipman as new Vice President, Global Library Relations - May 19, 2017
Elsevier, the information analytics company specializing in science and health, has appointed Jean P. Shipman, currently Executive Director of Knowledge Management and the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library at the University of Utah, to fill a newly created role of Vice President, Global Library Relations.… Read More
PLOS appoints Alison Mudditt as Chief Executive Officer - May 19, 2017
Open access journal publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS) has announced the appointment of Alison Mudditt as its Chief Executive Officer, effective June 19, 2017. For the past six years Mudditt served as Director of University of California Press (UC Press) where she ushered in new… Read More
