New NEH grant to support Cornell University Press’ open-access effort - July 27, 2020
A new grant to Cornell University Press (CUP) from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will support scholarly communication through open-access publishing in collaboration with Cornell University Library. The $103,336 economic stabilisation grant will fund a new project, Open Access… Read More
NIH to invest $58M to catalyse data science and health research discoveries across Africa - July 27, 2020
The National Institutes of Health has launched a $58 million initiative to advance data science, catalyse innovation and spur health discoveries across Africa. The new five-year program, Harnessing Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa (DS-I Africa), will leverage existing… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - July 27, 2020
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Daan Kolkman (Is public accountability possible in algorithmic policymaking? The case for a public watchdog); Steve Sieck (The pandemic pushed publishing into the digital realm. So what's next?); Donald Samulack (Publishing in an open access journal: How do you maximise… Read More
CRediT-NISO collaboration achieve key milestones - July 24, 2020
Following their April 2020 announcement, the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) Steering Committee have now achieved two more important milestones in their work to formalise and develop CRediT both as a NISO/ANSI standard and as a community. In short… Read More
American Chemical Society and the Polish Academic Consortium sign transformative OA agreement - July 24, 2020
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has signed a transformative ‘read and publish’ agreement with the Polish Academic Consortium. The agreement, which lasts through 2022, will benefit 51 institutions across Poland and will enable hundreds of articles to be made open access each… Read More
EBSCO Information Services announces support for the UK Reproducibility Network - July 24, 2020
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is joining the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) as an external stakeholder. In providing in-kind support to UKRN, EBSCO is furthering its goal of supporting open research and reproducibility by teaming up with an organisation of researchers and research institutes dedicated to improving… Read More
