OASPA seminar to tackle some enduring areas of OA concern and confusion - April 29, 2019
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) will host a seminar preceding the SSP annual conference next month in San Diego. The pre-meeting seminar entitled Fact or Fiction? OASPA Lifts the Lid on Open Access Publishing will take place on the… Read More
AIChE and Wiley release inaugural issue of the Journal of Advanced Manufacturing and Processing - April 29, 2019
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and its publishing partner John Wiley and Sons, Inc., have released the inaugural issue of the Journal of Advanced Manufacturing and Processing — a peer-reviewed journal that captures leading-edge manufacturing techniques and technologies that reduce… Read More
2018 USTR Notorious Markets List includes problematic sites named by publishers - April 29, 2019
The Association of American Publishers has welcomed the announcement by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) of the 2018 Special 301 Out-of-Cycle Report of Notorious Markets. The inclusion of problematic online and physical markets on the list encourages the market operators or responsible authorities… Read More
Future Science Group starts using Jisc’s Publications Router service - April 29, 2019
Future Science Group (FSG) has begun supplying full-text articles to Jisc's Publications Router service, enabling onward distribution to institutional repositories. All journals published by Future Medicine, Future Science and Newlands Press will henceforward send articles to Jisc’s Publications Router, as they… Read More
Kudos and Good for Kids announce launch of first Kudos Pro project profile - April 29, 2019
Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact, and Good for Kids, a healthy eating and activity program led by the New South Wales Government’s Hunter New England Population Health, have announced the launch of the first Kudos Pro ‘project profile’. The Physical Activity for Everyone… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 29, 2019
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Michael Clarke (Revisiting - Navigating the Big Deal: A Guide for Societies); Erin McKiernan, Juan Pablo Alperin and Alice Fleerackers (The “impact” of the Journal Impact Factor in the review, tenure, and promotion process); Holly Else (Elsevier strikes its first… Read More