Founder and Executive Chairman of SAGE Publishing Sara Miller McCune to receive The London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award 2018 - March 14, 2018
The London Book Fair will present the LBF Lifetime Achievement Award 2018 to Sara Miller McCune, Founder and Executive Chairman of SAGE Publishing. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognises an individual who has made a truly significant mark in the sphere of global publishing. It is… Read More
VSNU and the Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing unable to reach new agreement for access to journals - March 14, 2018
The Dutch universities and Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing (RSC) have been unable to reach a new agreement on access to scientific journals. The VSNU's aim in the negotiations was to secure a transition to open access without Dutch academics having to pay double to access… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education and Unizin in deal to make affordable digital learning materials available to 25 universities and nearly 1 million students - March 14, 2018
Learning science company McGraw-Hill Education has announced a new agreement with Unizin, Ltd. ("Unizin") to provide its 25 member universities with affordable, high-value, digital learning materials through an Inclusive Access model - automatically giving students easy access to materials on the first day of class. The… Read More
Oncotarget publications to be indexed in Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Meta database - March 14, 2018
Oncotarget has announced that its peer-reviewed research publications will be indexed in Meta, a world-renowned database of scientific literature, alongside other Impact Journal publications. Meta was acquired by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in an effort to make Meta's artificial intelligence (AI) technologies available to enhance scientists'… Read More
Applications for 2018 Altmetric Annual Research Grant now open - March 14, 2018
Alternative metrics provider Altmetric has opened the call for applications for its 2018 Annual Research Grant. First awarded in 2016, the grant provides up to £1,500 ($1,900 USD) to support research studies that explore different facets of altmetrics or a related topic that impacts the… Read More
Springer Nature and VSNU renew open access publishing agreement - March 13, 2018
Springer Nature and the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) have renewed their agreement to secure open access publishing for Dutch universities up to 2021. VSNU and Springer Nature together were the first to sign a hybrid open access agreement of this type in 2014.… Read More
