eLife to develop SwipesForScience to speed up research - December 4, 2018
eLife is collaborating with participants from its inaugural Innovation Sprint earlier this year to develop SwipesForScience, a templating service that lets researchers quickly create mobile-friendly games that allow players to help with analysing large amounts of research data. The prototype of SwipesForScience, developed at the… Read More
Cambridge University Press signs major OA deal with Bibsam - December 3, 2018
Academic Publisher Cambridge University Press has reached a major open access deal with higher education and research institutions in Sweden. The three-year 'read and publish' deal has been agreed with Bibsam, a consortium of 85 higher education and research institutions, led by the National Library… Read More
Society for Scholarly Publishing collaborates with Arnoud de Kemp to organise 2019 APE Pre-Conference in Berlin - December 3, 2018
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is collaborating with Arnoud de Kemp to organise the APE Pre-Conference in Berlin, Germany, on January 14, 2019. Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) is an independent, multidisciplinary conference established in 2006 to host an ongoing international debate about the future… Read More
American Institute of Physics receives $650,000 grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to digitise rare books - December 3, 2018
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has received a three-year, $646,697 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to make a unique collection of rare books in the physical sciences universally accessible. The grant will enable AIP's Niels Bohr Library & Archives to provide global,… Read More
Institute of Advanced Science Extension to preserve OA e-journals with Portico - December 3, 2018
Digital preservation service Portico has announced that the Institute for Advanced Science Extension (IASE) is preserving their open access e-journals with Portico, ensuring that their content will be secure and available into the future. IASE is a non-profit international scientific association of distinguished scholars engaged… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - December 3, 2018
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Joseph Esposito (Upstreaming: The Migration of Economic Value in Scholarly Publishing); Mattias Björnmalm (Let’s focus on the research process, not the outputs); Tien M. Nguyen (The case for crowd peer review); and Hans De Wit, Phillip G. Altbach and Betty… Read More
