COAR and DuraSpace launch collaborative partnership - June 7, 2018
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and DuraSpace have announced the launch of a collaborative partnership. Both organisations are jointly committed to supporting the adoption of repository platforms that are interoperable, compliant with international standards and protocols, and reflect the vision of next generation… Read More
Crossref facilitates use of essential peer review information for scholarly communications - June 6, 2018
In response to requests from the community for flexible registering of peer review content (and associated discussions of published content), Crossref has extended its infrastructure to not only support the registration of this content, but also the easy retrieval, use and reuse of it, through its… Read More
Dr. Suzanne Bakken named new Editor-in-Chief of AMIA’s flagship informatics journal – JAMIA - June 5, 2018
The Board of Directors of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has announced the selection of Dr. Suzanne Bakken as the new Editor-in-Chief of the AMIA peer-reviewed informatics journal, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). Dr. Bakken is the Alumni Professor of Nursing and… Read More
Swiss National Science Foundation joins Europe PMC - May 24, 2018
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has become a member of Europe PMC, which maintains the world's largest repository for biomedicine. Researchers funded by the SNSF can store their articles in the repository. This makes the articles accessible free of charge and the research results… Read More
ConTech 2018 – Conference chairs to meet to finalise 2018 conference programme - May 22, 2018
The ConTech conference chairs are meeting on May 23, 2018, to finalise the conference programme. ConTech 2018 is aimed at information providers and content owners who increasingly have to address the challenges of competing in a data world, driven by machine learning, artificial intelligence and other… Read More
AAAS and China Association for Science and Technology explore new collaboration - May 18, 2018
Leaders of the China Association for Science and Technology and counterparts at the American Association for the Advancement of Science explored ways to build on a longstanding collaboration between the two scientific organisations through science communication and education partnerships. During a meeting at AAAS headquarters… Read More
