Cochrane Taiwan announces appointment of new Director - April 28, 2017
Cochrane Taiwan has announced that the appointment of Chiehfeng (Cliff) Chen as its new Director, effective February 2017. Cochrane Taiwan's work in supporting and promoting evidence-based healthcare goes back to 2003, and Cliff has been involved with the team's activities for 11 years. Under the… Read More
SPARC Europe and Digital Curation Centre release new briefing paper on the ‘Value of Open Data to Research Institutions’ - April 27, 2017
Institutions that house and support research programs are uniquely positioned to advance the open sharing of data. Research managers at these institutions play a pivotal role since they steer institutional policy, strategy and infrastructure development. A newly released briefing paper that speaks directly to these influential figures, and provides… Read More
Five additional publishers working with CLOCKSS to preserve publications for future generations - April 26, 2017
CLOCKSS, a not-for-profit joint venture between the world's leading academic publishers and research libraries, has announced that five additional publishers are working with the archive to preserve their publications for future generations of researchers. CLOCKSS, the decentralized preservation archive that ensures that the digital assets… Read More
NISO releases draft STS: Standards Tag Suite for public comment - April 25, 2017
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the release of a draft version of NISO Z39.102-201x, STS: Standards Tag Suite, for public comment. STS provides a common XML format that standards developers, publishers, and distributors can use to publish and exchange full-text content and metadata… Read More
Canadian Family Physician journal launches new website on HighWire Press’s JCore platform - April 24, 2017
Canadian Family Physician (CFP), the official scientific journal of the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), has launched a dynamic new website on HighWire Press's JCore platform. According to Peter Thomlison, CFP Publisher, JCore's stability and responsiveness makes the site… Read More
AGU journal commentaries highlight importance of earth and space science research - April 21, 2017
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has published a collection of more than 25 essays as commentaries in its scientific journals highlighting the important role Earth and space science research plays in society. The essays, covering a broad swath of scientific disciplines and written by notable… Read More
