ConTech 2019: Doors open 9 am on December 5th - December 3, 2019
At ConTech 2019 attendees will hear from the pioneers who have embraced new technologies such as data science, AI, and machine learning to change the way they create, manage and sell their content. Content users and information specialists are using this new generation of tools to… Read More
French academic consortium for higher education and research and Elsevier sign new national license agreement - December 3, 2019
Couperin, the French academic consortium for higher education and research, and Elsevier, a global information analytics business specialising in science and health, have signed a new national license agreement. This four-year agreement (2019-2022) will provide researchers at universities and research institutions across France with equal access… Read More
Publishers fully committed to Open Access transition, says new report - December 3, 2019
Academic publishers want to make the transition to Open Access (OA) a reality as comprehensively and rapidly as possible and see transformative agreements as vital to this process, according to a new independent report titled, Evidence to inform a response to the UKRI review of Open… Read More
SPIE appoints Harry Levinson and Hans Zappe as co-editors-in-chief of the Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS - December 3, 2019
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced the appointment of new co-editors-in-chief of the Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS (JM3), effective January 1, 2020. Harry Levinson, a consultant at HJL Lithography, and Hans Zappe, the Gisela and Erwin Sick Professor of Micro-Optics… Read More
ScienceOpen and Pensoft Publishers sign strategic collaboration agreement - December 3, 2019
The research discovery platform ScienceOpen and Pensoft Publishers, an independent academic publishing company, have entered into a strategic collaboration partnership with the aim of strengthening the companies’ identities as the leaders of innovative content dissemination. The new cooperation will focus on the… Read More
National Library of Medicine appoints Margaret McGhee as a Chief of Public Services Division - December 3, 2019
The National Library of Medicine has announced the appointment of Margaret McGhee as Chief, Public Services Division. She will assume this role on December 9, 2019. McGhee will lead the Division responsible for several key NLM programs including MedlinePlus, the main web site, customer service, management… Read More