Despite one-year delay Plan S may still be too rushed, warn researchers - June 10, 2019
The funders behind Plan S – an ambitious set of policies that aims to speed up the transition to open access publishing – recently released updated guidelines that delay implementing the plan for a year and provide more clarity on transformative publishing agreements. The revisions have attracted mixed reactions from… Read More
Registrations now open for 6:AM Altmetrics Conference, CFP deadline June 14 - June 10, 2019
Registration for the 6:AM Altmetrics Conference is now open. Scheduled to be held in Stirling, Scotland on the 9th and 10th of October, the theme for this year is ‘Bridging Worlds’, with a focus on connecting communities, cultures and topics that stretch beyond altmetrics alone. … Read More
Virginia Tech Publishing launches first peer-reviewed book under its own imprint - June 10, 2019
Virginia Tech Publishing, Virginia Tech’s scholarly publishing hub housed in the University Libraries, recently launched “Viral Networks: Connecting Digital Humanities and Medical History,” the first peer-reviewed book to be released solely under the Virginia Tech Publishing imprint. Edited by E. Thomas Ewing, a professor of… Read More
Engineering professor Ali Memari named editor-in-chief of the Journal of Architectural Engineering - June 10, 2019
Ali Memari, professor of civil and architectural engineering, Bernard and Henrietta Hankin Chair in Residential Building Construction, and director of the Pennsylvania Housing Research Center at Penn State, was recently named the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Architectural Engineering (JAE), produced by the American Society of… Read More
Prof. Ellen Goldring appointed editor-in-chief of the American Educational Research Journal - June 10, 2019
Vanderbilt University professor Ellen Goldring has been appointed editor-in-chief of the American Educational Research Association’s flagship publication, the American Educational Research Journal. She will head the editorial team for AERJ’s 2020–22 volume years. Goldring is Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - June 10, 2019
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: David Crotty (Leaving Behind the Outrage Economy); Jens P. Goetze and Jens F. Rehfeld (Opinion: Stop Gaming Peer Review); Phill Jones (Why Is It So Hard to Solve Problems with Technology?); David Nicholas (How will the emerging generation of scholars… Read More
