MIT Press receives grant to conduct environmental scan of OS publishing - June 18, 2018
The MIT Press has received a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to conduct a landscape analysis and code audit of all known open source (OS) authoring and publishing platforms. By conducting this environmental scan, the MIT Press will be providing a comprehensive and critical… Read More
Dove Medical Press appoints Michael Ueberall as Associate Editor of Journal of Pain Research - June 18, 2018
Open access publisher Dove Medical Press has appointed Michael Ueberall as a new Associate Editor of the Journal of Pain Research. Ueberall has been one of the most relevant and prolific pain researchers in Europe, publishing close to 200 peer-reviewed articles and invited textbook chapters over… Read More
Project MUSE launches redesigned platform - June 18, 2018
Project MUSE, a provider of digital Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) content, has released its newly-redesigned web presence. The launch is a redesign and re-engineering of MUSE's proprietary platform. The URL structure for all book and journal content in MUSE will remain the same and… Read More
HARRASSOWITZ now accepting applications for 2018 Charleston Conference Scholarship - June 18, 2018
International booksellers and subscription agents HARRASSOWITZ is offering once again a $1,000 scholarship to attend the Annual Charleston Conference that takes place November 5-9, 2018, in Charleston, SC. The scholarship is to be awarded to a librarian or paraprofessional who is currently working in a library… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - June 18, 2018
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Phil Davis (Journal Growth Lowers Impact Factor); Christopher Hill (The future is bright for branch campuses, but not as we know them); Ella Flemyng (Increasing diversity in peer review with transparent mentoring of early career researchers); and Davina Cooper (Materiality… Read More
Nature Research and NASA partner for a new Nature conference on the Microbiome of the Built Environment (MoBE) - June 15, 2018
Nature Research and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will be convening a new conference designed to guide NASA’s approach to interaction with and control of the Microbiome of the Built Environment (MoBE) of future spacecraft including transports, habitats, landers, rovers… Read More
