US federal government shutdown disappoints American Chemical Society - December 27, 2018
The American Chemical Society (ACS) is disappointed that the administration and Congress were unable to come to a bipartisan agreement on a funding bill for 2019, forcing a partial shutdown of government operations. ACS has called on both parties to set aside partisan differences and work… Read More
Global humanitarian and practicing ER physician, Dr. Samuel J. Zidovetski, to keynote NFAIS 2019 Annual Conference - December 17, 2018
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) has announced that researcher, practicing ER physician, co-founder of Save A Brain Foundation, and global health humanitarian, Dr. Samuel J. Zidovetski, will deliver the keynote address at NFAIS' 61st Annual Conference, scheduled for February 13 - 15, 2019,… Read More
Wolters Kluwer, Health and ACHNE partner to advance community and public health research by nurse educators - December 14, 2018
Wolters Kluwer, Health will be awarding a grant together with the Association of Community Health Nursing Educators (ACHNE) to support community and public health educational research. The grant, to be awarded to a nurse educator, comes at a time when healthcare is increasingly taking place outside… Read More
COAR hosts webinar on role of open repositories in research data management - December 12, 2018
COAR recently hosted a members-only webinar on the role of open repositories in research data management (RDM). RDM is a large component of open science, and the role of repositories is crucial in supporting RDM. Many repository services that began by collecting articles have expressed interest… Read More
Funding Bodies sign open letter in support of ORCID - December 7, 2018
ORCID has announced the launch of an open letter in support of the use of ORCID identifiers (iDs) in the grant application and reporting process. Nine funding bodies around the world have signed the letter - and are inviting others to join them - to indicate… Read More
ConTech 2018 closes on a high - December 4, 2018
The first ever ConTech conference took place last week at the Chelsea Harbour Hotel, London, UK. Attendees witnessed three first class and completely different keynotes, ground breaking speaker sessions as well as a pharma focused special session. Multiple networking opportunities and the addition of the DataBeers… Read More
