New York University receives $527,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - April 22, 2019
New York University has received a grant of $527,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project to help ensure the preservation of complex new forms of digital scholarship. In the collaborative project, ‘Enhancing Services to Preserve New Forms of Scholarship,’… Read More
Knowledge Unlatched announces organisational changes - April 22, 2019
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the central platform for the sustainable funding of Open Access (OA) models, has announced the latest additions to its team. Maud Ruget and Wilson de Souza Paiao have joined the Berlin-based team and a fulltime sales position in North America has been added… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 22, 2019
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Sami Benchekroun and Michelle Kuepper (Challenges and Opportunities in Pre-published Research); Wang LingFeng (Self-organising peer review for preprints – A future paradigm for scholarly publishing); Brenda Wingfield & Bob Millar (How the open access model hurts academics in poorer countries);… Read More
Wolters Kluwer honoured with 32 awards from the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors for editorial and design excellence - April 19, 2019
Wolters Kluwer, Health has announced that its Lippincott® journal portfolio has won 32 awards across 21 categories in the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (ASHPE) annual awards competition. ASHPE recognises member articles and publications for editorial, design, print and online award categories. Lippincott journals… Read More
Western Sydney University extends its digital textbook program with ProQuest - April 19, 2019
Western Sydney University (WSU) has extended its partnership with ProQuest to offset one major piece of that cost – textbooks. Through WSU’s digital textbook program, all 10,000 first-year students at the university’s 10 teaching campuses located across the Western Sydney region… Read More
ARL white paper on Wikidata brings to light use of open knowledge in scholarly communication, special collections - April 19, 2019
In a new Association of Research Libraries (ARL) white paper, a task force of expert Wikidata users recommend a variety of ways for librarians to use the open knowledge base in advancing global discovery of their collections, faculty, and institutions. Librarians are using Wikidata’s structured… Read More
