OASPA 2020 Conference goes online - May 6, 2020
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) has announced that its 2020 conference will take place online in September, instead of in Warsaw as originally planned. The 2020 conference will address open access at a time of global challenge, taking on… Read More
HighWire launches new hosting platform for Annals of Family Medicine - May 6, 2020
Scholarly publishing technology provider HighWire has launched a new, modern hosting platform for the Annals of Family Medicine, published as a collaborative effort between the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), the Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM),… Read More
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
