Clarivate announces Dr. Giacomo Livan as winner of the 2020 Eugene Garfield Award - October 19, 2020
Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, has announced Dr. Giacomo Livan as the recipient of the 2020 Eugene Garfield Award for Innovation in Citation Analysis. Launched in 2017, the award recognises early-career scientists who… Read More
Cambridge University Press seeks Transformative Journal status to transit journals to Open Access - October 19, 2020
Cambridge University Press seeks to request the majority of its journals be given Transformative Journal status by cOAlition S as part of a commitment to transition them to full Open Access (OA). The Press’s commitment to OA stems from its belief that a sustainable transition… Read More
IOP Publishing signs DORA affirming its commitment to raising standards in research evaluation - October 19, 2020
IOP Publishing (IOPP) has signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) as part of its commitment to support more equitable, inclusive approaches to research evaluation in line with open science practices. DORA was developed in 2012 during the Annual Meeting of the American… Read More
Oxford University Press celebrates open access milestones - October 19, 2020
As International Open Access (OA) Week begins, Oxford University Press (OUP) is celebrating some major milestones, over 2019, on its 16th year of open access publishing. A flagship new journal series called Oxford Open is launched on April 2020. Oxford Open is a series of… Read More
Karger launches Vesalius Innovation Award to encourage young scientists and entrepreneurs - October 19, 2020
Karger Publishers has launched the Vesalius Innovation Award for startups in the field of innovative Health Sciences publishing. Five finalists presented their projects at a pitching event during the Frankfurt Book Fair, recently. Karger is granting the Vesalius Innovation Award for the first time in… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 19, 2020
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Jeffrey Brainard (New PLOS pricing test could signal end of scientists paying to publish free papers); Emilia Ruzicka (Ruzicka ’21: Our future is Open Access); Heather Desmarais (Managing scientific literature access and copyright compliance in a remote workforce);… Read More
