University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa to celebrate Open Access Week, October 20–27 - October 16, 2014
The University of Hawai'i at Mānoa will be celebrating Open Access Week, October 20–27. Throughout the week, the UH Mānoa community is invited to learn about open educational resources at the Outreach College, to navigate the impact of copyright on teaching and… Read More
Jenny Kühne takes over rights and licensing at the Frankfurt Book Fair - October 15, 2014
Frankfurt Book Fair has announced that as of September 1, 2014, Jenny Kühne has been responsible for marketing the Frankfurt Book Fair's RightsLink licensing service for online permissions. In addition, she will be responsible for the networking and further development of the previously existing rights activities… Read More
SCOAP3 webinar to discuss status of the initiative and future plans - October 15, 2014
The Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) recently marked the publication of its 3333rd article. The Consortium will host an online conversation on November 18th to discuss its first months of operation. Starting January 2014, SCOAP3 has supported publication of Open… Read More
Day 3: Frankfurt Book Fair highlights - October 10, 2014
The fifth edition of StoryDrive will celebrate the heroes in and behind the story. Speakers include Cyber-Philosopher Alexander Bard, Publisher Michael Bhaskar, Best-Selling Author Reif Larsen, script writer Stefano Bises and many more. Perspectives in Education: "Across Boundaries – an Education Melting Pot": CEOs of various international educational publishing… Read More
NIH invests about $32 million to increase utility of biomedical research data - October 10, 2014
The National Institutes of Health recently announced grants to develop new strategies to analyze and leverage the explosion of increasingly complex biomedical data sets, often referred to as Big Data. These NIH multi-institute awards constitute an initial investment of nearly $32 million in fiscal year 2014… Read More
Frankfurt Book Fair 2014 – Day 2 highlights - October 9, 2014
On the second day of the Frankfurt Book Fair, EDP Open, the Open access arm of EDP Sciences, released the results of a survey to appraise attitudes toward Open Access amongst learned society publishers. The survey was answered by 33 Learned societies and results were further… Read More
