SCOAP3 journals double downloads - October 12, 2016
The Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) has announced that the four largest journals participating in SCOAP3, two published by Elsevier and two by SpringerNature in partnership with the Italian Physical Society (SIF), and the Italian Institute for Advanced Studies (SISSA) have… Read More
ICSTI to organise third webinar in partnership with NISO - October 3, 2016
The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) will organise its third webinar themed 'Enabling Innovations for Researcher Workflows and Scholarly Communication' in close partnership with NISO. This webinar is scheduled for October 26, 2016, from 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.… Read More
Taxonomy Boot Camp London scheduled for October 18-19, 2016 - September 30, 2016
The first Taxonomy Boot Camp London will be held from October 18-19, 2016, at the Olympia Conference Centre, London. It doesn't matter how many taxonomy projects you have been involved in, every organisation and every set of stakeholders come with their own challenges and opportunities. Taking… Read More
Mary M. Case begins one-year term as president of the Association of Research Libraries - September 30, 2016
Mary M. Case, university librarian and dean of libraries at University of Illinois at Chicago, began a one-year term as president of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) on September 28, 2016, during the Association's Fall 2016 Meeting in Washington, DC. Case succeeds Larry Alford, chief… Read More
COAR announces webinar on controlled vocabularies - September 29, 2016
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has announced a webinar on the topic of 'Controlled Vocabularies'. The webinar is initiated by COAR Controlled Vocabularies Interest Group (CVIG). CVIG is planning series of webinars to provide training and raising awareness on controlled vocabularies. The sessions… Read More
Russian medical publisher Media Sphera partners with Publons to recognise reviewers - September 26, 2016
Media Sphera, the leading Russian publisher of peer-reviewed medical journals, has partnered with Publons to help reviewers track, verify and showcase their peer review efforts. In a true show of innovation, Media Sphera has also developed an open-source plugin so other journals, using the Open Journal… Read More
