cOAlition S appoints Jisc expert, Neil Jacobs, as interim programme manager - June 5, 2019
Neil Jacobs, head of open science and research lifecycle at Jisc, has been appointed as interim programme manager for the international consortium of research funders, cOAlition S. Neil Jacobs will take forward the work of the consortium, Plan S, to help… Read More
First ConTech Forum to be held in less than 3 weeks - June 4, 2019
Delegates from around the world will assemble on June 21, 2019 in London for the first ever ConTech Forum. The programme tackles the impact of AI, machine learning, data science and other emerging technologies on content creation, dissemination and consumption. Max Gabriel, CDO Taylor and… Read More
COAR and WACREN collaborate to advance open access and open science in Africa - June 4, 2019
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and the West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN) have announced a new collaboration agreement to advance open access and open science in Africa. Greater access to the results of research will contribute to improving the… Read More
cOAlition S releases revised guidance on Plan S implementation following public feedback exercise - May 31, 2019
cOAlition S has released revised guidance on Plan S implementation which has been approved by all coalition members. Since its launch in September 2018, Plan S has reinvigorated the global debate on Open Access to scholarly publications. cOAlition S is appreciative… Read More
ScienceOpen and Bioscientifica partner to increase the discoverability of biomedical research - May 30, 2019
ScienceOpen and biomedical publisher Bioscientifica have announced a partnership that integrates open-access articles from seven endocrinology and reproduction journals published by Bioscientifica in the ScienceOpen research discovery environment in the form of a featured collection. Owned by the Society for Endocrinology,… Read More
Registrations open for ICSTI 2019 Annual Conference in Shanghai - May 24, 2019
The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) has announced that its 2019 Annual Conference will take place in Shanghai on September 23-26. Themed ‘Open Science and Open Innovation’, the conference is part of a bigger event co-organised with the Shanghai Competitive Intelligence Forum (SCIF)… Read More
