Third CHORUS Forum looks at what infrastructure is needed to make open research work - June 8, 2021
The third CHORUS Forum included a lively panel discussion around what infrastructure is needed to make open research work. The session was moderated by Alix Vance, CEO of AIP Publishing and the chair of the Board of Directors of CHORUS, and panel participants represented a diverse set… Read More
AMA announces transition in JAMA editorial leadership - June 8, 2021
The American Medical Association has announced that Dr. Howard Bauchner will step down as editor-in-chief of JAMA and JAMA Network™, effective June 30, 2021. Dr. Bauchner had been on administrative leave while a review of a JAMA podcast and tweet about structural racism in medicine was in… Read More
14th Annual BISG-NISO Forum to focus on the changing standards landscape - June 8, 2021
Librarians are well-aware that high quality metadata is the key to a user successfully identifying a useful resource. Provider awareness of this has shifted with workflows being enhanced to deliver more complete, accurate, and reliable data. That said, twenty-first century systems do more and require more than simple matching of… Read More
UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science - June 8, 2021
UNESCO member states have agreed upon a final draft of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science as of May 11, 2021. The Recommendation defines shared values and principles for Open Science and puts forward concrete measures on Open Access and Open Data. It serves… Read More
Dr. Madjid Tavana appointed editor in chief of two research journals – Decision Analytics Journal and Healthcare Analytics - June 8, 2021
Dr. Madjid Tavana, professor and department chair of business systems and analytics, has been appointed editor in chief of two new academic journals from Elsevier, the largest scholarly journal publisher in the world. Tavana will serve as editor in chief of Decision Analytics… Read More
Flagship journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists to transition to Open Access starting in 2022 - June 8, 2021
Starting with Volume 30, Berghahn Journals will be the new publisher of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, the journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. The journal will be leaving Wiley to embark on becoming a fully open access journal as a part of the Berghahn Open Anthro… Read More
