ACS names Mary Beth Mulcahy as new editor-in-chief of ACS Chemical Health & Safety - September 9, 2019
The American Chemical Society (ACS), Publications Division, has named Dr. Mary Beth Mulcahy, principal member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, as the new editor-in-chief of ACS Chemical Health & Safety. ACS recently acquired the journal from the ACS Division of Chemical Health and… Read More
American Physiological Society adopts a format-neutral submission policy for new manuscripts - September 9, 2019
The journals of the American Physiological Society (APS) have adopted a format-neutral submission policy (FlexSubmit) for new manuscripts submitted after July 31, 2019. With the change, initial submissions may now be uploaded in any format to streamline the process for authors. FlexSubmit removes the need… Read More
ORCID’s funder working group publishes its recommendations - September 6, 2019
ORCID's Funder Working Group, part of the ORBIT (ORCID Reducing Burden and Improving Transparency) initiative, has published three reports summarising their work to date. The reports cover ORCID and grant DOIs and the use of ORCID in grant applications and grant reporting processes. Collectively, they… Read More
DOAJ and the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies collaborate on new pilot to encourage Finnish open access journals to apply to DOAJ - September 5, 2019
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV) are collaborating on a pilot project to encourage and help peer-reviewed open access (OA) journals published in Finland to be indexed in DOAJ. The Pilot runs from May 2019 to May… Read More
ConTech 2019 and EBSCO Information Services partner to connect librarians and library students with new technologies - September 5, 2019
ConTech 2019 and EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) have announced a partnership to ensure more librarians attend the event in December. EBSCO will sponsor the conference — a sponsorship that will include a submission process that will allow four librarians to attend for… Read More
ARL-CNI Fall Forum Registration deadline extended through September 9 - September 4, 2019
The 2019 Fall Forum, to be hosted by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), is scheduled for September 26, in Washington, DC. A few spots are still available and interested parties may register by September 9. The theme… Read More
