CARL releases final version of the Competencies for Librarians in Canadian Research Libraries - September 21, 2020
Reporting to the Canadian Association of Research Libraries’ (CARL) Strengthening Capacity Committee, the CARL Competencies Working Group (CWG) was struck in the summer of 2017 to refresh the 2010 publication, ‘Core Competencies for 21st Century CARL Librarians.’ The process has been highly consultative – with… Read More
CAST releases new paper, The Importance of Communicating Empirically Based Science for Society - September 21, 2020
The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) has released a new paper, 'The Importance of Communicating Empirically Based Science for Society'. The commentary paper is now available to download for free on CAST’s website. The paper discusses the crucial factors of… Read More
Charlesworth Author Services and Portland Press Limited partner to offer authors editing and publication support services through local-language web portals - September 21, 2020
Portland Press Limited has partnered with Charlesworth Author Services to provide Portland Press’ global biosciences author community with English language editing and publication support services through English and Chinese local-language web portals. Portland Press is the wholly owned publishing subsidiary of the… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - September 21, 2020
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Sylvia Izzo Hunter, Igor Kleshchevich, Bruce Rosenblum (Guest post — What is wrong with preprint citations?); Dani Guzman (The impact of COVID-19 on academic researchers); Tao Tao (Gaps in academic communication); Molly Buccini (Making open access more approachable for researchers… Read More
American Society of Hematology and Elsevier announce new publishing partnership - September 18, 2020
The American Society of Hematology (ASH), the world's largest professional society of hematologists, and Elsevier, a global research publishing and information analytics provider, has announced a new partnership to publish ASH's premier peer-reviewed journals, Blood and Blood Advances beginning January 1, 2021.… Read More
The International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and Wiley Announce OA publishing deal - September 18, 2020
John Wiley and Sons Inc. and the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) have announced an open access publishing partnership for the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles. The journal will transition to the Wiley Online Library platform in the fall of 2020. Founded by ISEV in 2012… Read More
