Knowledge Unlatched and National Contact Point Open Access develop quality criteria for OA books - August 6, 2018
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the central platform for the sustainable funding of Open Access (OA) models, and the National Contact Point Open Access have developed quality criteria for Open Access books. The agreement aims to provide libraries and publishers with investment security in the future when… Read More
Frontiers in Psychiatry appoints Merete Nordentoft as new Chief Editor of Schizophrenia - August 6, 2018
Frontiers in Psychiatry has announced the appointment of Professor Merete Nordentoft as the new Specialty Chief Editor of Schizophrenia. Merete Nordentoft is professor in clinical psychiatry, and works as a clinician at the Mental Health Center Copenhagen. She also heads a research unit of more than… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - August 6, 2018
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: David Crotty (Measuring Societal Impact or, Meet the New Metric, Same as the Old Metric); Lucy Montgomery, Cameron Neylon, Alkim Ozaygen and Tama Leaver (How small open access monograph presses can make the most of an increasingly rich data landscape);… Read More
Elsevier signs definitive agreement to acquire Aries Systems - August 3, 2018
Elsevier, the global information analytics business specialising in science and health, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aries Systems, a leader in scientific publication workflow solutions headquartered outside Boston, MA. Aries' offerings are used by journals, books and other publications for… Read More
CARL’s Digital Preservation Working Group survey on building capacity for digital preservation in Canada - August 3, 2018
As Canadian memory institutions are increasingly called to preserve and give access to valuable digital materials into the future, there is a need to develop a clearer understanding of what gaps exist between available resources and growing needs in the field of digital preservation. The Canadian… Read More
ACM’s Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining’s annual conference to be held from August 19-23 in London - August 3, 2018
The Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) will hold its flagship annual conference, KDD, in London, UK, August 19-23. Started in 1989, KDD claims to be the world's oldest and largest data mining conference and has been… Read More
