UCLA-based physician scientist brings distinguished career in electrophysiology to journal editorship - February 26, 2020
Dr. Kalyanam Shivkumar has been named the next editor-in-chief of JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology. Shivkumar is a physician scientist who serves as the director of the UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, as well as the university’s electrophysiology programs. He is a professor of medicine (cardiology), radiology and bioengineering… Read More
The American Diabetes Association unveils new portal for sharing and discovering supplementary research data powered by Figshare - February 26, 2020
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) has launched a new portal for sharing and discovering supplementary research data powered by Figshare, available at https://diabetesjournals.figshare.com. Supplementary research data published in four of the ADA’s journals - Diabetes, Diabetes Care,… Read More
ACS signs first North American ‘read and publish’ agreement with Louisiana State University - February 25, 2020
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Louisiana State University (LSU) have announced a transformative open access agreement. The agreement provides researchers at LSU with full access to ACS journals and allows for financial support for corresponding authors at the university to… Read More
SAGE launches new portal to streamline open access publishing process - February 25, 2020
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced the launch of a new portal that enables authors, consortia, libraries, and funders to manage the open access publishing workflow. Named the SAGE Open Access Portal, the platform currently supports SAGE Choice, the publisher’s hybrid Open Access (OA) publishing option,… Read More
Three learned society publishers to work with EIFL to explore OA agreements with publishers and library consortia in developing and transition economies - February 25, 2020
Three learned society publishers — the European Respiratory Society, IWA Publishing, and The Company of Biologists – will work with EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) to explore whether and how OA agreements might be piloted to support a… Read More
The MIT Libraries and three universities negotiate innovative agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery - February 25, 2020
The MIT Libraries has negotiated an innovative open-access agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) that allows MIT authors to make ACM articles freely available at no cost to them. It is the libraries’ first publisher contract completed under the principles… Read More
