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
ScienceOpen and Hogrefe Publishing Group integrate six new featured collections into ScienceOpen research discovery environment - January 22, 2019
ScienceOpen and Hogrefe Publishing Group has announced an extended collaboration that integrates six new featured collections in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, medicine, and health care into the ScienceOpen research discovery environment. These collections join the already featured open access article collection 'Hogrefe OpenMind' in psychology/psychiatry,… 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
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
Marty Kahn, Chairman of Code Ocean, selected to receive the NFAIS 2019 Miles Conrad Award - January 8, 2019
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAISTM), a global non-profit membership organisation serving the information services community, has announced that Marty Kahn, Chairman of Code Ocean, has been selected to receive the NFAIS 2019 Miles Conrad Award. NFAIS' Miles Conrad Award, long considered the… Read More
SPARC applauds Congressional passage of the OPEN Government Data Act - December 27, 2018
SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, has applauded Congressional passage of the Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act. The bill, which is included as Title II of the broader Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, requires federal agencies to publish government data… Read More
