Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 27, 2020
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Ralph Youngen (Guest Post – Seamless remote access during a global pandemic: An indispensable necessity); Kelly Cobey and David Moher (We need to develop counter adaptations to predatory journals); Scholastica blog (The State of Journal Production and Access: New survey… Read More
Springer Nature and UNESCO sign new OA books partnership - April 24, 2020
Springer Nature and UNESCO have announced the signing of a framework agreement encompassing the publication of open access books focusing on UNESCO’s main pillars, notably education, the natural and social human sciences, culture, and communication and information areas. Written by experts affiliated to UNESCO, these… Read More
Academic Emergency Medicine and Wiley collaborate to offer full access to online collection of breaking COVID-19 research - April 24, 2020
Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM), the monthly journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, in collaboration with Wiley Publishing, is fast-tracking submissions related to COVID-19 and making the latest, most relevant research available in an easy-to-navigate, freely accessible online collection of accepted and citable articles. The… Read More
NISO launches work to formalise and develop the Contributor Role Taxonomy as an ANSI/NISO standard - April 24, 2020
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the formal launch of its work to formalise and develop the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT) as an ANSI/NISO standard. The move follows the organisations December 2019 announcement. NISO Voting Members expressed strong support for this work, which has… Read More
SPIE set to launch new gold OA journal – Journal of Optical Microsystems, JM3 to be renamed - April 24, 2020
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced the launch of a new Gold Open Access journal, the Journal of Optical Microsystems (JOM), which will publish cutting-edge research of optical and photonic microsystems. Hans Zappe, co-editor-in-chief of SPIE's Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS… Read More
ReadCube launches free research pass programme to provide direct access for COVID-19 researchers - April 24, 2020
Digital Science’s ReadCube, in collaboration with leading publishers, is announcing the launch of a new initiative to facilitate access to literature related to COVID-19 research. The COVID-19 Research Pass (CRP) programme provides direct access to over 26 million articles and is available… Read More
