Springer Nature and The Open University partner to launch Computer Science Ontology (CSO) - January 10, 2019
Research publisher Springer Nature and the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) of The Open University have partnered to provide a comprehensive Computer Science Ontology (CSO) to a broad range of communities engaged with scholarly data. CSO can be accessed free of charge through the CSO Portal, a… Read More
PLOS announces five new appointments to its Board - January 10, 2019
PLOS has announced the appointment of five new members to its Board. The new Board Chair is Alastair Adam, currently CEO of innovative digital textbook publisher, FlatWorld. Alastair brings to the role not only a strong understanding of publishing - including scientific journals - but… Read More
MDPI announces OA agreement with Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) - January 10, 2019
Academic open-access publisher Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) has announced the establishment of its national Open Access agreement with the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Through this national agreement, the Austrian institutions listed below as well as FWF will cover… Read More
Frontiers and the University of Würzburg form OA publishing agreement - January 9, 2019
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (University of Würzburg) has established an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. The University of Würzburg supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, the University of Würzburg has entered into an institutional… Read More
Thieme Chemistry deposits about 700,000 distinct chemical structures to PubChem - January 8, 2019
Thieme Chemistry, a part of the Thieme Group, has provided approximately 700,000 distinct structures to PubChem, the open chemistry database at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In addition to the structural information, the upload includes more than 1,200,000 distinct links from chemicals to the Thieme… Read More
Prof. Tianquan (Tim) Lian named Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Chemical Physics - January 8, 2019
AIP Publishing, a not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has announced the appointment of Tianquan (Tim) Lian, the William Henry Emerson Professor of Chemistry at Emory University, as the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Chemical Physics (JCP), a peer-reviewed journal publishing innovative and quantitative science… Read More
