FIZ Karlsruhe to organise first Patent Text Mining & Semantic Technologies workshop - September 3, 2019
The first workshop on Patent Text Mining and Semantic Technologies (PatentSemTech) will be held at FIZ Karlsruhe within the scope of the SEMANTiCS 2019 conference. The one-day workshop, scheduled for September 12, 2019, is organised jointly with Technische Universität Vienna. The… Read More
Publishing industry expert Byron Russell to lead EMEA customer sales at HighWire - September 3, 2019
Scholarly publishing technology provider, HighWire, has announced the appointment of publishing veteran Byron Russell as EMEA Sales Director. Bringing over 30 years’ experience in the publishing industry, Byron started his career at Oxford University Press’ ELT division in Italy. He has held senior positions in… Read More
ScholarSphere: Measuring the impact of OA publishing - September 3, 2019
Users of ScholarSphere, Penn State’s institutional repository service, will receive monthly reports detailing the impact of the research products they have contributed, including preprints, posters, data sets, research software and other open-access scholarly products, effective September 1. Users will be provided updated statistics on the… Read More
Washington State University Press appoints Linda Bathgate as new Editor‑in‑Chief - September 3, 2019
Washington State University (WSU) Press has announced the appointment of Linda Bathgate as Editor‑in‑Chief, starting September 3. Replacing Robert A. Clark, who retired in January 2019, Bathgate comes to WSU Press after working for the University Press of Florida (UPF) in Gainesville, Florida, where she… Read More
Brill collaborates with Knowledge Unlatched to release 11 books in Open Access - September 3, 2019
International scholarly publisher Brill has announced the release of 11 books in Open Access in its most recent collaboration with library crowdsourcing platform Knowledge Unlatched. With topics including interdisciplinary research on trust, a comparative study of women and gender, and a… Read More