NWO and Brill join forces in research on handwriting and image recognition - October 23, 2015
A consortium of computer scientists, historians of science and heritage professionals has been awarded funding by NWO for a research project on making illustrated handwritten archives digitally accessible. The project Making Sense of Illustrated Handwritten Archives was submitted jointly by the Leiden Centre of Data Science (LCDS), Naturalis Biodiversity… Read More
Innovative open access agreement between Springer and Jisc to benefit UK researchers - October 23, 2015
Researchers in the UK will now be able to publish their articles open access in over 1,600 Springer hybrid journals without cost barriers or administrative barriers. The Springer Compact agreement is a pilot that combines open access publishing and subscription access in one annual fee and… Read More
SAGE partners with the International and American Associations for Dental Research to launch JDR Clinical & Translational Research - October 21, 2015
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the launch of JDR Clinical & Translational Research in partnership with the International and American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR). Publishing dental, oral, and craniofacial research at the interface of discovery science and clinical application, this new publication is a resource… Read More
PeerJ announces single low payment for full open access publication - October 20, 2015
Open access publisher PeerJ has announced that researchers now have the option to pay a fixed (U.S.) $695 per article fee ('APC') to publish in PeerJ, a peer-reviewed Open Access journal in biology, medicine, and the life sciences. This option is also available to the new… Read More
Emerald Publishing Director to play leading role in Charleston Open Access event - October 20, 2015
Tony Roche, Publishing Director at Emerald Group Publishing, will be one of the panel of contributors leading the ‘Open Perspectives in Open Access: Realities of Commercial Publishing' session at the Charleston Conference, South Carolina, on November 5 at 12.45pm (ET). Open Access (OA) remains a… Read More
Elsevier and The Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses announce publishing partnership - October 20, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier and The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) have announced that Elsevier will publish AWHONN's official publications, Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing (JOGNN) and Nursing for Women's Health (NWH), beginning with the 2016 volumes. Journal of Obstetric,… Read More
