Pearson appoints Andy Bird as Chief Executive - August 25, 2020
Pearson plc has announced the prospective appointment of Andy Bird as its new Chief Executive, effective October 19, 2020. It is intended that John Fallon will continue as Chief Executive until the date, when he will step down from the Board and remain as an advisor… Read More
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press and Qatar National Library sign open access publication funding agreement - August 25, 2020
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) and Qatar National Library (QNL) have signed an agreement that funds and supports researchers from Qatar-based universities and institutions to publish their research freely as open access works. The published content funded by Qatar National… Read More
Data mining conference, KDD 2020, goes virtual; set to showcase brightest minds in data science and AI - August 24, 2020
The Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM SIGKDD) will hold its flagship annual conference, KDD 2020, virtually from August 23-27. The KDD conference series, started in 1989, is the world’s oldest and largest data mining conference, and is… Read More
Seven months after official launch, Open Research Library continues to grow in size, usage and functionality - August 24, 2020
The Open Research Library (ORL), the hosting platform that makes scientific book publications and other high-quality academic Open Access content freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world, has made great strides since its official launch in January 2020. Not only is the ORL seeing increased… Read More
eLife launches Executable Research Articles for publishing computationally reproducible results - August 24, 2020
eLife has announced the launch of Executable Research Articles (ERAs), allowing authors to post a computationally reproducible version of their published paper in the open-access journal. eLife invests in open-source technology innovation to improve online tools for sharing, using and interacting with new results. The organisation… Read More
Cambridge University Press launches new website for its higher education textbooks to meet changing needs of students - August 24, 2020
Cambridge University Press has brought its higher education (HE) textbooks together on a new, tailor-made website to meet the changing needs of students, instructors and universities. Higher Education from Cambridge University Press gives higher education institutions and their students easy, affordable… Read More
