ACM releases report on best practices for virtual conferences - April 17, 2020
Science and technology conferences are engines of innovation—essential to the incubation of new ideas, the dissemination of research, and the spawning of new technologies. But this year, with no warning, conferences around the globe are finding themselves in uncharted waters as the global COVID-19 pandemic makes physical meetings impossible. To… Read More
AIP Publishing signs multi-year Read and Publish agreement with KAUST - April 17, 2020
AIP Publishing, a not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has signed a multi-year ‘Read and Publish’ agreement with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. KAUST is the first university from the Middle… Read More
Frontiers develops artificial intelligence tool to enable fast-track peer-review proposals for emergency COVID-19 research - April 17, 2020
Open-access publisher Frontiers has developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool to help funders identify specialists to peer-review proposals for emergency COVID-19 research. The tool helps fast-track the allocation of funding during the crisis by helping them identify new reviewers, and accelerates the scientific response to the… Read More
HighWire-hosted articles are now indexed by Semantic Scholar as default - April 17, 2020
Scholarly publishing technology provider HighWire has announced that all journals hosted by HighWire are now auto-depositing new articles to Semantic Scholar as default. Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered academic search engine designed to enhance article discovery for researchers, funded by the Allen Institute of… Read More
Springer Nature and Research Solutions partner to bring comprehensive journal and book content to small and medium-sized enterprises - April 16, 2020
Springer Nature, in partnership with the document retrieval provider Reprints Desk, has developed a way for SMEs to access all of Springer Nature’s journal and book content. The partnership with Reprints Desk, a wholly owned subsidiary of Research Solutions Inc., will allow… Read More
IOP Publishing and CERN sign open access publishing agreement - April 16, 2020
Researchers from CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, can now publish open access with IOP Publishing at no cost, after the two organisations struck a new ‘publish and read’ agreement. The agreement enables authors from CERN to publish open access… Read More
