The Society Publishers’ Coalition elects first Council - October 10, 2019
The Society Publishers’ Coalition has announced the results of its first Council election. Elections were held in September to create a representative council to lead the Coalition’s work. Each membership organisation was given six votes, and only one representative per organisation voted. The election criteria required… Read More
Global Energy Company ENI sponsors registration at ConTech 2019 - October 9, 2019
Global Energy Company ENI are registration sponsors at this year's ConTech conference, scheduled for December 5th and 6th in London. ENI is an integrated energy company with around 31,000 employees in 67 countries, operating in the oil and natural gas exploration, development and extraction industries in… Read More
ScienceOpen partners with university presses from Vilnius and Liverpool to support university publishing - October 7, 2019
ScienceOpen has announced that Vilnius University Press (VUP) and Liverpool University Press (LUP) have joined ScienceOpen in a partnership that integrates new collections in humanities, social and life sciences on the platform. As the latest university presses on ScienceOpen, VUP and LUP join a portfolio of… Read More
The MIT Press receives grant from the Arcadia Fund to develop and pilot a sustainable framework for open access monographs - October 4, 2019
The MIT Press has received a three-year $850,000 grant from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, to perform a broad-based monograph publishing cost analysis and to develop and openly disseminate a durable financial framework and business plan for open access (OA) monographs.… Read More
Pat Chapman-Pincher to deliver opening Keynote on Day 2 of ConTech 2019 - October 2, 2019
ConTech 2019, scheduled for December 5-6, 2019, is aimed at information providers and content owners who increasingly have to address the challenges of competing in a data world, driven by machine learning, artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. All of the great changes in human society… Read More
NISO convenes information industry cross-sector leadership at New NISO Plus Conference - September 26, 2019
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the launch of its new NISO Plus Conference. The conference is scheduled for February 23 - 25, 2020 at the Lord Baltimore Hotel in Baltimore, MD. The intent behind the new NISO Plus Conference is to integrate… Read More