COAR hosts webinar on role of open repositories in research data management - December 12, 2018
COAR recently hosted a members-only webinar on the role of open repositories in research data management (RDM). RDM is a large component of open science, and the role of repositories is crucial in supporting RDM. Many repository services that began by collecting articles have expressed interest… Read More
South African Journal of Industrial Psychology announces call for papers for special issue in 2019 - December 12, 2018
The South African Journal of Industrial Psychology (SAJIP) is inviting original scientific articles, reports, position papers and reviews that will bring new knowledge on insights into and conversation around mental health research in African organisations that advance theory and practice. Within a South African context,… Read More
China set to become global leader in AI research, says new Elsevier report - December 11, 2018
Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, has released a new study, according to which, China is growing in importance as a global leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, and there is an increasing trend of researchers moving from academia to industry, especially… Read More
Emerald Open Research now open for submissions - December 11, 2018
Academic publisher Emerald Publishing has announced that its new open access platform, Emerald Open Research, is now open for submissions. Created in partnership with F1000, the platform, which is new and pioneering for the social sciences community, offers authors immediate publication followed by transparent open… Read More
CLOCKSS to preserve University of Michigan Press ebook collection on Fulcrum - December 11, 2018
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced that the University of Michigan Press and CLOCKSS have signed an agreement for the preservation of the e-books in University of Michigan Press's forthcoming UMP Ebook Collection which will be hosted on the innovative Fulcrum publishing platform. Initially this will… Read More
Scholastica announces archiving and indexing automations for OA journals - December 11, 2018
Scholastica, a vanguard academic journal software and service provider with tools for peer review and open access publishing, has announced new archiving and indexing automations. Scholastica now offers automated article and metadata deposits for the Portico digital preservation archive and for the Directory of Open Access… Read More
