Congress Funds $5 million open textbook grant program in 2018 spending bill - March 22, 2018
In a landmark victory for the Open Education movement, the U.S. Congress has included funding for a $5 million open textbook grant program in the Fiscal Year 2018 omnibus appropriations bill. This marks the first major investment by Congress explicitly in open educational resources (OER) as a solution to the… Read More
Society for Scholarly Publishing announces keynote speakers for SSP 40th Annual Meeting - March 21, 2018
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has announced that its keynote speakers for the SSP 40th Annual Meeting to be held May 30-June 1, in Chicago will be Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble and Steve Mirsky. Noble, an assistant professor at the University… Read More
American Chemical Society partners with Royal Society of Chemistry and the German Chemical Society to support ChemRxiv - March 21, 2018
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced its partnership with the Royal Society of Chemistry and the German Chemical Society (GDCh) to support the financial and strategic development of ChemRxiv, the premier preprint server for the global chemistry community. This strategic partnership among three of the… Read More
Library Assessment Conference 2018 call for proposals - March 21, 2018
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the University of Washington Libraries, and the Conference Steering Committee invite paper and poster proposals for the 2018 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment. This seventh biennial conference will be held in Houston, Texas, December 5-7, 2018, and… Read More
Arindam Banerjee joins editorial boards of ASME and Elsevier journals - March 20, 2018
Arindam Banerjee, associate professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics at Lehigh University, has been appointed to two editorial boards. Banerjee joined the Journal of Fluids Engineering as an associate editor. The journal, established by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), is devoted to the… Read More
Knowledge Unlatched announces further increase in support from publishers for its activities - March 20, 2018
The team of Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the central platform for the sustainable funding of Open Access (OA) models, has announced a further increase in support from publishers for its activities. In preparation of its fifth funding round, which for the first time contains content from all… Read More
