The École de technologie supérieure signs San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment - January 25, 2021
The École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) is among the first Canadian universities to sign the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which enhances parameters other than the journal impact factor to assess the results of scholarly research. As such, pre-publication versions of articles,… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - January 25, 2021
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Dr. Geer Mohammad Ishaq (Innovating science and technology education); Jon Treadway and Daniel Hook (Campus or platform – What shape will the post-COVID university take?); Daniel S. Katz and Hollydawn Murray (Guest post — Citing software in Scholarly Publishing to… Read More
Holiday Notice - January 25, 2021
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on January 26, 2021 on account of Republic Day (India). We will resume our newsletter service on Wednesday, January 27, 2021. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the January 25th issue. Read More
SPIE announces Read and Publish agreement with German National Library of Science and Technology - January 22, 2021
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced a three-year ‘Read and Publish’ agreement with the German National Library of Science and Technology. The new agreement began on January 1, 2021. It incorporates read access to all SPIE journals and proceedings in… Read More
New journal from Cambridge University Press to push boundaries of biological imaging - January 22, 2021
A new Open Access journal from Cambridge University Press will provide a home for interdisciplinary research in the fast-growing field of quantitative and computational imaging in the life sciences. The Press has launched Biological Imaging`` in recognition of the way computer science, machine… Read More
PLOS and the Big Ten Academic Alliance announce agreement to participate in PLOS’ Community Action Publishing program - January 22, 2021
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) have announced an agreement for BTAA members to participate in PLOS’ Community Action Publishing (CAP) program. The agreement ensures time to test and evaluate the new community-based model and allows BTAA researchers to publish… Read More
