NIST and OSTP launch joint effort to advance search engines for COVID-19 research - April 20, 2020
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) have launched a joint effort to support the development of search engines for research that will help in the… Read More
STM appoints Claudia Russo as Regional Manager, Public Affairs Europe - April 20, 2020
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has announced that Claudia Russo has been appointed as the organisations new Regional Manager, Public Affairs Europe - its first permanent staff member to be based in Brussels. Claudia’s role will support the STM membership through… Read More
ASM’s new COVID-19 Research Registry provides timely access to top COVID-19 research vetted by experts - April 20, 2020
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has announced the launch of the COVID-19 Research Registry, a platform that provides timely access to top COVID-19 research vetted by experts. Dr. Stefano Bertuzzi, CEO, ASM, notes that the next important step in response to SARS-CoV-2 is to curate… Read More
NIH to launch public-private partnership to speed COVID-19 vaccine and treatment options - April 20, 2020
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Foundation for the NIH (FNIH) are bringing together more than a dozen leading biopharmaceutical companies, the Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S.… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 20, 2020
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Samuel Moore (Without stronger academic governance, Covid-19 will concentrate the corporate control of academic publishing); David Schott (Now is the time: Perspectives on the challenges and value of metadata); Glyn Moody (Open source, open science: the coronavirus crisis is when… Read More
Elsevier unveils COVID-19 Healthcare Hub, a free resource to help clinicians worldwide in combatting the on-going pandemic - April 17, 2020
Elsevier, a global leader in information analytics specialising in science and health, has launched a new resource to aid healthcare workers on the front lines of managing the novel coronavirus health crisis. The COVID-19 Healthcare Hub provides free access to toolkits, expert insights, research resources and… Read More
