ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2020: Shortlist announced - July 6, 2020
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), recently announced the shortlist for the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2020, sponsored by Publishers’ Licensing Services. Applications for the awards were open to any new development, product,… Read More
Stefano M. Bertozzi named editor-in-chief of peer-reviewed COVID-19 journal - July 6, 2020
Stefano M. Bertozzi, UC Berkeley School of Public Health Dean Emeritus and professor of Health Policy and Management, has been named editor-in-chief of a new peer-reviewed journal focused on COVID-19 research published by MIT Press. The new journal, Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 (RR:C19), is an open… Read More
American Academy of Ophthalmology expands Ophthalmology family of journals to include Ophthalmology Science - July 6, 2020
The American Academy of Ophthalmology has announced plans to expand the Ophthalmology family of journals to include Ophthalmology Science, an online open access journal focused on publishing pre-clinical development, phase 1 and 2 clinical trials, laboratory-based work, ophthalmology informatics, and clinical science. Ophthalmology Science is the… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - July 6, 2020
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen (Guest post — Leveraging technology partnerships in times of crisis); Justin Fox (Viewpoint: Covid-19 shows that scientific journals need to open up); Molly Buccini (Making data FAIR – What information managers can bring to the table); Alice… Read More
Elsevier and the University of Florida sign pilot agreement to support OA publishing and research - July 2, 2020
The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida (UF) and Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, have agreed to a new pilot program to support open access (OA) publishing at UF. The agreement will support UF’s open access goals… Read More
ACS journals remain most impactful for the chemistry community - July 2, 2020
The journals of the American Chemical Society (ACS) recorded new levels of prominence in 2019, according to data reported on June 29 in the 2020 Web of Science Journal Citation ReportsTM (JCR) from Clarivate. ACS’ journals grew in published output, impact and citations across the… Read More
