CERN to centrally cover APCs for Frontiers’ journals - April 21, 2020
Open-access publisher Frontiers has announced that the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), will centrally cover article processing charges (APCs) for eligible articles by its researchers published in any Frontiers journal. Furthermore, CERN will… Read More
BMJ appoints Roger Horton as new chair - April 21, 2020
Healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has announced the appointment of Roger Horton as its new chair, effective April 20, 2020. BMJ publishes general medical journals, The BMJ, as well as a portfolio of specialty journals and clinical decision support tools to help health professionals improve the… Read More
ASM announces new Editors-in-Chief for Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy and Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews - April 21, 2020
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has announced Dr. Cesar Arias as the new Editor-in-Chief of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (AAC) and Dr. Corrie Detweiler as the new Editor-in-Chief of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews (MMBR), effective July 1, 2020. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy is… Read More
OSI officially launches Plan A - April 20, 2020
The Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI) has officially launched Plan A. Plan A is OSI’s 2020-25 action plan, synthesising the significant themes and recommendations that have emerged from OSI during its last five years of work. Plan A recommends that the international scholarly communication community begin immediate… Read More
NIST and OSTP launch joint effort to advance search engines for COVID-19 research - April 20, 2020
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) have launched a joint effort to support the development of search engines for research that will help in the… Read More
STM appoints Claudia Russo as Regional Manager, Public Affairs Europe - April 20, 2020
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has announced that Claudia Russo has been appointed as the organisations new Regional Manager, Public Affairs Europe - its first permanent staff member to be based in Brussels. Claudia’s role will support the STM membership through… Read More
