NISO announces draft recommended practice for Reproducibility Badging and Definitions - May 6, 2020
The National Information Standards Organisation (NISO) is accepting comments, through June 18, 2020, from the information community on the draft recommended practice, Reproducibility Badging and Definitions. Following on the landmark U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) report, Read More
EDP Sciences journals now on Researcher making discoverability of content easier - May 6, 2020
EDP Sciences has announced its publication of nearly fifty journals on the Researcher platform. These journals join the existing collection of over 16,000 journals from a number of publishers. The EDP Sciences journals included on the platform include Astronomy and Astrophysics, Parasite, and ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling… Read More
McGraw-Hill appoints Simon Allen as CEO - May 5, 2020
Learning science company McGraw-Hill has announced that Simon Allen has been appointed Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately, and will join the company’s Board of Directors. Allen had served as Interim CEO since October 2019. Going forward the company will continue to focus on creating the world-class… Read More
Jisc and LYRASIS partner to introduce Institutional Repository Usage Statistics in the US - May 5, 2020
Jisc and LYRASIS, a global non-profit membership association providing technology and content solutions for libraries, museums, and archives, are joining forces to introduce Institutional Repository Usage Statistics (IRUS) in the United States. IRUS-US is the first service to bring together standards-based usage statistics of participating… Read More
Androgens: Clinical Research and Therapeutics, new OA peer-reviewed journal scheduled for launch in 2020 - May 5, 2020
Androgens: Clinical Research and Therapeutics, a new peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to testosterone and other androgens, is now accepting submissions for publication in 2020. The journal aims to publish the highest-quality peer-reviewed articles from all disciplines of medicine, bringing together the numerous areas of testosterone and other androgens clinical… Read More
University of Arizona and Frontiers extend open access publishing agreement - May 5, 2020
University of Arizona (UA) Libraries held an institutional membership trial agreement with Frontiers, enabling UA-affiliated corresponding authors to benefit from a 7.5 percent membership discount on article processing charges (APCs) until the end of 2019. The collaboration has now been further formalised and extended. Starting… Read More
