ACS names deputy editors for its open access journals - January 25, 2021
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has named nine deputy editors to lead its newest journals, a collection of Plan S-compliant open access journals known as the ACS Au portfolio. The journals, which are launching in 2021, will each be led by Editor-in-Chief Shelley… Read More
Brill reaches Transformative Agreements with Jisc and Bibsam - January 25, 2021
Brill has announced that it has concluded Transformative Agreements with Jisc in the UK and Bibsam in Sweden. Brill is claimed to be one of the leading academic publishers in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law and Biology, with a broad Open Access portfolio… Read More
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
