American Journal of Nursing announces 2018 Book of the Year Awards - December 31, 2018
Wolters Kluwer, Health and the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) have announced the 2018 winners of its annual AJN Book of the Year Awards honouring exceptional texts for advancing healthcare quality. The list of winners appears in the January 2019 issue of… Read More
Topics related to blockchain and cryptocurrency dominate SSRN scholarly research repository - December 31, 2018
SSRN, a scholarly research repository owned by scientific, technical, and medical information publishing company Elsevier, concludes that FinTech is the fastest growing area of research on its platform. Data from a recently released study by the company reveals that the most popular papers on SSRN deal… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - December 31, 2018
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky (More science than you think is retracted. Even more should be.); Christian Shepherd (British publisher pulls academic journals from China after government complaint); and Elliot Harmon (Europe Speeds Ahead on Open Access: 2018 in Review).… Read More
Dear Subscribers - December 31, 2018
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on Wednesday, Jan 2nd. We will resume our newsletter service on Thursday, Jan 3, 2019. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the December 31st issue. We take this opportunity to wish… Read More
SPARC applauds Congressional passage of the OPEN Government Data Act - December 27, 2018
SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, has applauded Congressional passage of the Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act. The bill, which is included as Title II of the broader Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, requires federal agencies to publish government data… Read More
US federal government shutdown disappoints American Chemical Society - December 27, 2018
The American Chemical Society (ACS) is disappointed that the administration and Congress were unable to come to a bipartisan agreement on a funding bill for 2019, forcing a partial shutdown of government operations. ACS has called on both parties to set aside partisan differences and work… Read More
