Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal launches at the 26th GW-ICC meeting in Beijing, China - November 3, 2015
Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (CVIA), a new journal affiliated with the Great Wall-International Congress of Cardiology, was introduced at the opening ceremony of GWICC by Congress Chairman Prof. Changsheng Ma. Dr. C. Richard Conti, past president of the American College of Cardiology and former Editor… Read More
IEEE announces participation at this year’s Web Summit - November 2, 2015
IEEE has announced its participation in this year's Web Summit. Scheduled to be held from November 3-5 in Dublin, the Summit has become one of the world's most influential and international tech events. IEEE is the exclusive sponsor and host of the Enterprise X dinner,… Read More
ORCID collaborates with Crossref and DataCite to launch Auto-Update functionality - October 27, 2015
ORCID, the non-profit organisation that is working to address the name ambiguity problem in scholarly communications by providing a registry of persistent identifiers for researchers, has announced the launch of Auto-Update functionality, in collaboration with Crossref and DataCite. ORCID registrants who use their unique ORCID… Read More
Columbia University Libraries participate in eighth annual Open Access Week - October 26, 2015
Columbia University Libraries announced its participation at the eighth annual Open Access Week. Open Access Week, a global event now entering its eighth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share… Read More
ARL awarded IMLS, Sloan Foundation grant to expand and enhance SHARE - October 22, 2015
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has been awarded a joint $1.2 million grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to expand and enhance SHARE's open data set of research and scholarly activities across their life cycle.… Read More
SPARC launches Open Access Spectrum Evaluation Tool to independently analyse publications’ policies - October 20, 2015
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has announced the launch of the Open Access Spectrum (OAS) Evaluation Tool, which provides a concrete, quantifiable mechanism to independently analyse publications' policies. The OAS Evaluation Tool generates an 'Openness' score that is straightforward, easy to understand,… Read More
