ORCID appoints Andy Mabbett as Wikipedian-in Residence - June 12, 2014
ORCID, a non-profit organisation that provides an open registry of unique identifiers for researchers, has appointed Andy Mabbett as Wikipedian-in Residence. In this pro-bono role, Andy will extend his work as an ORCID Ambassador and act as liaison with the Wikimedia community to integrate ORCID into… Read More
ARL calls for proposals for SPEC survey topics 2015 - June 10, 2014
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is seeking proposals for 2015 SPEC survey topics. For 40 years ARL has gathered and disseminated data through the SPEC survey program to assist libraries in the continuous improvement of their management systems. Each year, ARL works with librarians in… Read More
ORCID Outreach Meeting highlights integrations, use cases and outreach at universities and professional societies - June 4, 2014
ORCID, a non-profit organisation that provides an open registry of unique identifiers for researchers, held its twelfth bi-annual Outreach Meeting, hosted by the University of Illinois in Chicago, on May 21-22, 2014. About 160 individuals from around the world participated. This outreach meeting showcased the integrations,… Read More
SHARE partners with Center for Open Science to build the SHARE Notification Service - June 3, 2014
SHARE (SHared Access Research Ecosystem) and the Center for Open Science (COS), a Charlottesville, Virginia–based non-profit technology start-up, have agreed to form a partnership to build the SHARE Notification Service. This service will provide notice that research is available to the public.… Read More
CrossRef Text and Data Mining now available to CrossRef members - May 30, 2014
CrossRef, a not-for-profit association of worldwide scholarly publishers, has announced that the CrossRef Text and Data Mining services, allowing publishers to provide information that will simplify access arrangements for researchers who desire to mine and analyse scholarly publisher sites, is now available to CrossRef members. The… Read More
Frankfurt Book Fair relaunches Frankfurt Quarterly (FQ): The Asian Era magazine - May 28, 2014
The Frankfurt Book Fair's magazine has been relaunched with a shortened name and a fresh layout. From now on, it is called simply the Frankfurt Quarterly (instead of Frankfurt Academy Quarterly). The Frankfurt Quarterly examines a single focal topic in the accustomed depth. The current issue… Read More
