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
MIT Libraries and the Royal Society of Chemistry sign ‘Read and Publish’ agreement - June 15, 2018
The MIT Libraries and the Royal Society of Chemistry have signed a license agreement that incorporates elements of a traditional subscription purchase and open access to scholarly articles. The experimental two-year agreement, known as ‘read and publish,’ is seen as an… Read More
SAGE Publishing titles honoured with Textbook and Academic Authors Association Awards - June 15, 2018
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced that four of its titles will receive awards from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA) at their annual conference on June 15. The only publisher that won in every award category, SAGE’s honours include: Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design:… Read More
