First Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum scheduled for September 9 - July 18, 2019
The University of Basel and the MDPI Sustainability Foundation will be organising the First Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum on September 9, 2019. The aim of this event is to provide background and perspectives on Plan S to Learned Societies, which have… Read More
ConTech 2019 scheduled for December 5-6 - July 17, 2019
ConTech 2019 is scheduled to take place on December 5-6 at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel, London. ConTech 2019 is about transforming content through data science, AI and other emerging technologies and is projected to be a must attend event for anyone involved in the scholarly research… Read More
The Pistoia Alliance to develop a toolkit to support implementation of the FAIR Guiding Principles - July 17, 2019
The Pistoia Alliance, a global non-profit that works to lower barriers to innovation in life sciences R&D, has announced the launch of its FAIR Implementation project, backed by pharmaceutical companies including Roche, Astra Zeneca, and Bayer. The first project milestone by the end of 2019 will… Read More
Rush Holt retires from AAAS, Alan Leshner named acting CEO - July 16, 2019
Earlier this year, Rush D. Holt, chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and executive publisher of the Science family of journals, announced plans to retire. Holt has decided to retire by September 1 and will be taking accrued vacation… Read More
The European Mathematical Society Publishing House is moving from Zürich to Berlin - July 16, 2019
The European Mathematical Society Publishing House has a long-standing publishing tradition and is dedicated to the publication of high-quality peer-reviewed journals and books, on all academic levels and in all fields of mathematics and mathematical physics. After many successful years of publishing from Zürich, the publisher… Read More
UC San Diego and Texas Digital Library announce data preservation partnership - July 15, 2019
UC San Diego has announced a partnership with a coalition of Texas colleges and universities to develop a national digital preservation service for sensitive and private data. The partnership between the UCSD library and the Texas Digital Library is intended to shore up a weak… Read More
