Registrations now open for 6:AM Altmetrics Conference, CFP deadline June 14 - June 10, 2019
Registration for the 6:AM Altmetrics Conference is now open. Scheduled to be held in Stirling, Scotland on the 9th and 10th of October, the theme for this year is ‘Bridging Worlds’, with a focus on connecting communities, cultures and topics that stretch beyond altmetrics alone. … Read More
ACCUCOMS to represent Bristol University Press in North America - June 7, 2019
ACCUCOMS, the specialist in global sales and marketing for publishers and societies, has announced an agreement with Bristol University Press, a publisher of high-quality scholarship in the social sciences and allied disciplines, to represent them in North America. Bristol University Press is a not-for-profit publisher… Read More
CSHL, Yale University, and BMJ set to launch new preprint server for the health sciences - June 6, 2019
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), Yale University, and BMJ have announced the forthcoming launch of medRxiv (pronounced "med-archive"), a free online archive and distribution service for preprints in the medical and health sciences. medRxiv is expected to begin accepting manuscripts on June… Read More
‘Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge’ to be the theme of 2019 International Open Access Week - June 6, 2019
The 2019 Open Access Week Advisory Committee has announced that the theme for the 2019 International Open Access Week, to be held October 21-27, will be "Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge". As the transition to a system for sharing knowledge that is open by… Read More
Akadémiai Kiadó partners with Sheridan PubFactory to host their journals - June 6, 2019
STM publisher Akadémiai Kiadó, majority owned by Wolters Kluwer, is relaunching their AKJournals publishing program - over 60 peer-reviewed STM titles - on Sheridan PubFactory’s online hosting platform. Sheridan PubFactory can guide and support publishers through any point in the content… Read More
Web of Science Group launches new publisher analytics reports - June 5, 2019
The Web of Science Group, part of Clarivate Analytics, has launched its first range of analytical reports aimed specifically for academic publishers. The ready-to-use reports provide a snapshot of journals’ performance and inform competitor analysis. They will help publishers to easily plan robust, evidence-based strategies, based… Read More
