Association of Research Libraries seeks proposals for SPEC Survey Topics 2016 - May 22, 2015
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is seeking proposals for 2016 SPEC survey topics. For 40 years ARL has gathered and disseminated data through the SPEC survey program to assist libraries in the continuous improvement of their management systems. Each year, ARL works with librarians in… Read More
ORCID and F1000 partner to launch standard for citing peer review activities - May 19, 2015
The Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) has announced a partnership with publisher F1000 to develop a practical means to cite peer review activities, based on a standard set of terms and the use of persistent identifiers. Peer review is an… Read More
ORCID forms new global membership team - May 18, 2015
The Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) has announced its new membership team: Josh Brown, Matthew Buys, Nobuko Miyairi (as of July 1), and Lilian Pessoa. Led by Douglas Wright, Director of Membership, the ORCID membership team brings regional expertise in research management, publishing, analytics,… Read More
ARL launches SPEC Survey webcast series - May 13, 2015
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is offering a series of webcasts that present the findings from the latest SPEC surveys and allow webcast participants to discuss trends with the survey authors. A 45-minute webcast will follow the publication of each SPEC Kit in 2015. … Read More
UK-China collaboration for data sharing in metabolomics - May 13, 2015
A partnership between the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the Universities of Birmingham, Manchester and Oxford, The Sainsbury Laboratory and TGAC with BGI and its open-access journal, GigaScience, has received funding from the UK's Biotechnology and Biological Research Council (BBSRC) to support the sharing of data and… Read More
International repository networks meet to strengthen their aim to develop a global, open access knowledge commons - May 11, 2015
For a second year in a row, major open access repository networks met to develop closer ties and further align their expanding repository networks. The meeting, organised by the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), was held on April 16, 2015 in Porto, Portugal and included… Read More
