ConTech 2018 videos and ConTech 2019 launched - January 23, 2019
The first ever ConTech Conference in London in 2018 boasted first class keynotes, ground-breaking insights, discoveries, revelations and technological advances. The founding ConTech community reacted very positively to the arrival of this new event in the conference calendar. The feedback has been universally positive with 100%… Read More
Society for Scholarly Publishing to organise pre-conference at UKSG 2019 in Telford - January 15, 2019
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is organising a pre-conference on April 7, the day immediately preceding UKSG's 42nd Annual Conference and Exhibition at the Telford International Centre. UKSG is a charitable organisation offering educational programs to members of the scholarly communication and knowledge communities,… Read More
COAR hosts webinar on Plan S and repositories - January 11, 2019
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) recently provided a response to the guidance on the implementation of Plan S, and hosted a webinar with the repository community to discuss Plan S requirements and the potential implications of them for repositories. Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director… Read More
Society for Scholarly Publishing seeks mentors and mentees to participate in 2019 Spring Mentorship Program - January 10, 2019
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is now accepting applications for the next cohort of its Mentorship Program. After completion of the Fall 2018 cohort, the SSP Career Development Committee is now seeking potential mentors and mentees to participate in the program for Spring 2019. This… Read More
DOAJ survey reveals global trends in OA publishing - January 9, 2019
A survey of publishers with journals indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) has revealed surprising trends in the way that content is published; what types of organisations are publishing the content; on how publishing standards are being accepted globally; and geographical trends on… Read More
New Editage report highlights geographic patterns in author attitudes toward OA publishing - December 20, 2018
Global scholarly communications company Editage has released a report highlighting geographic patterns in author attitudes toward open access publishing. In September this year, Editage had released a comprehensive report based on a global author survey capturing the views of almost 7000 researchers (mostly non-Western, non–English-speaking researchers)… Read More
