BioMed Central signs San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment - April 27, 2017
Open access publisher BioMed Central has become a signatory of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), the commitment to move away from a single measure of a journal's impact (Impact Factor) to the provision of a wider set of metrics and measurements. BioMed Central… Read More
ASTM International board of directors approve formation of Cannabis Standards Group - April 27, 2017
ASTM International, one of the world's leading standards organisations, has announced that its board of directors has approved the formation of a committee on cannabis (D37). The organisation also announced that the committee will hold its first official meeting June 11-12 in Toronto. Nearly 100… Read More
SPARC Europe and Digital Curation Centre release new briefing paper on the ‘Value of Open Data to Research Institutions’ - April 27, 2017
Institutions that house and support research programs are uniquely positioned to advance the open sharing of data. Research managers at these institutions play a pivotal role since they steer institutional policy, strategy and infrastructure development. A newly released briefing paper that speaks directly to these influential figures, and provides… Read More
Springer Nature authors can now submit more of their research outputs via new data submission portal powered by Figshare - April 27, 2017
Figshare, an online digital repository for academic research, has launched a new tool that enables authors to share their research outputs more efficiently during the publishing process. Springer Nature is the first publisher to pilot this new data submission portal and… Read More
CSHL collaborates with Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to boost sharing of scientific research - April 27, 2017
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has announced a new collaboration with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) that will help accelerate the understanding of life science for the benefit of human health and disease. New funding from CZI will support the development and expansion of CSHL's… Read More
RSB and the Biochemical Society announce inaugural issue of new journal deal with biology’s hot topics - April 27, 2017
The inaugural issue of Emerging Topics in Life Science, a new journal jointly owned by the Royal Society of Biology and the Biochemical Society, has been published. Each issue of the journal will feature reviews on a new or growing topic… Read More
