Semantic Scholar and OpenAthens partner for institutional login and full text research access - April 27, 2020
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and OpenAthens have announced a joint partnership to add a new institutional login option on Semantic Scholar, creating a seamless access experience for millions of researchers worldwide. Semantic Scholar’s free and non-profit academic search platform… Read More
Jisc, AoC, UUK, and ucisa seek parity of online access for learners during the coronavirus crisis - April 27, 2020
Leaders at Jisc, the UK’s education and technology not-for-profit, the Association of Colleges (AoC), Universities UK (UUK), and ucisa, the professional body for digital practitioners in education, have sought parity of online access for UK further education (FE) and higher education (HE) students during the coronavirus crisis.… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 27, 2020
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Ralph Youngen (Guest Post – Seamless remote access during a global pandemic: An indispensable necessity); Kelly Cobey and David Moher (We need to develop counter adaptations to predatory journals); Scholastica blog (The State of Journal Production and Access: New survey… Read More
Springer Nature and UNESCO sign new OA books partnership - April 24, 2020
Springer Nature and UNESCO have announced the signing of a framework agreement encompassing the publication of open access books focusing on UNESCO’s main pillars, notably education, the natural and social human sciences, culture, and communication and information areas. Written by experts affiliated to UNESCO, these… Read More
Academic Emergency Medicine and Wiley collaborate to offer full access to online collection of breaking COVID-19 research - April 24, 2020
Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM), the monthly journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, in collaboration with Wiley Publishing, is fast-tracking submissions related to COVID-19 and making the latest, most relevant research available in an easy-to-navigate, freely accessible online collection of accepted and citable articles. The… Read More
NISO launches work to formalise and develop the Contributor Role Taxonomy as an ANSI/NISO standard - April 24, 2020
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the formal launch of its work to formalise and develop the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT) as an ANSI/NISO standard. The move follows the organisations December 2019 announcement. NISO Voting Members expressed strong support for this work, which has… Read More
