World of Learning at the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2017 - October 5, 2017
The international educational sector will be making an innovative, multifaceted and digital appearance at the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2017 under the title "World of Learning". Highlights in Hall 4.2 will include Sofa talks and workshops on the future of learning in "World of Learning Lab." At the… Read More
The Journal of Comorbidity and the North American Primary Care Research Group announce new partnership - October 5, 2017
The Journal of Comorbidity (JOC) and the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) have announced a new partnership to support and enhance the development and dissemination of knowledge, ideas and research on comorbidity and multimorbidity. The Journal of Comorbidity is an… Read More
Frontiers and Heidelberg University announce institutional agreement - October 4, 2017
Heidelberg University has established an institutional membership agreement with Frontiers as part of its Open Access Publishing Fund. Publication fees / article processing charges for manuscripts submitted to Frontiers journals can be supported by Heidelberg University's Open Access Publishing Fund according to the Fund's funding… Read More
CHORUS and JST sign Japan Dashboard agreement - October 2, 2017
Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) has signed a Japan Dashboard agreement with CHORUS to monitor public accessibility of content reporting on JST-funded research. The agreement comes after a successful pilot project that began in July 2016. A ceremony marking this milestone was held at Rockefeller… Read More
LIBER signs open letter calling for revised Text and Data Mining (TDM) exception - September 26, 2017
Twenty organisations, including LIBER, have signed an open letter to European lawmakers calling for changes to a proposed Text and Data Mining exception. Coordinated by the European Alliance for Research Excellence, the letter asks Members of the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) in the European Parliament… Read More
NISO releases Issues in Vocabulary Management Technical Report - September 26, 2017
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the publication of a new Technical Report, NISO TR-06-2017, Issues in Vocabulary Management. This document is one outcome of the NISO Bibliographic Roadmap Development Project, which was conducted in 2013-14 with funding from the… Read More