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
SEMANTiCS 2019: Representatives from industry and science to discuss use of semantic technologies and artificial intelligence - August 30, 2019
Representatives from industry and science will discuss the use of semantic technologies and artificial intelligence at the SEMANTiCS conference in Karlsruhe from September 9 to 12. FIZ Karlsruhe is a co-organiser, and with good reason: the digital change has reached and affected… Read More
SPARC Europe on Open Science policy and Education at the LIBER Conference - August 30, 2019
In late June, around 400 delegates – library directors and their staff – from throughout Europe convened at the 48th Liber Conference in Dublin. SPARC Europe was involved in the joint organisation of a pre-conference workshop titled ‘How European policies and legislation affect academic library leaders… Read More
Copyright: Commission launches dialogue between platforms and rights holders - August 30, 2019
The European Commission has opened a call for expression of interest to participate in the stakeholder dialogue on the application of Article 17 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market on the use of protected content by online content-sharing service providers. The… Read More
