CCC’s scholarly communications workflow solution makes it easy for publishers to service authors, collect publication charges and manage transformative agreements - June 17, 2020
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has announced that its RightsLink for Scientific Communications (RLSC), trusted by 30 leading publishers representing 2,400 journals, is managing Open Access (OA) agreements with more than 300 institutions. RLSC helps… Read More
SPIE appoints Sean Shaheen as new editor-in-chief for Journal of Photonics for Energy - June 17, 2020
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has appointed Sean Shaheen as new editor-in-chief of the Journal of Photonics for Energy (JPE), effective July 1, 2020. Shaheen succeeds the journal's founding editor-in-chief, Zakya Kafafi, who has served in this position since… Read More
Manchester Metropolitan University to join OCLC’s WorldShare Management Services to provide increased visibility of resources and enhanced user access - June 17, 2020
Manchester Metropolitan University has signed on to use OCLC's WorldShare Management Services (WMS), a cloud-based library services platform, as their new library management system to integrate workflows and increase visibility and access to resources. Manchester Metropolitan University, with roots dating back… Read More
The Royal Society of Chemistry signs the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) - June 16, 2020
The Royal Society of Chemistry has signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), continuing its drive to modernise how to measure excellence in the chemical sciences. The Royal Society of Chemistry is the first major chemical society to sign up to the declaration’s… Read More
eLife and PREreview partner on open discussion and review of preprints - June 16, 2020
eLife has announced a partnership with PREreview, a platform for the crowdsourcing of preprint reviews, to bring together scientists globally for a series of virtual discussions around research posted as preprints. These live-streamed discussions, known as preprint journal clubs, will take place once a month… Read More
University of Westminster Press publications join ScienceOpen’s discovery platform - June 16, 2020
Research and publishing network, ScienceOpen, and the University of Westminster Press (UWP) have released several collections of open access articles and books in the humanities and social sciences that are now available on ScienceOpen. The publications will be embedded in the discovery environment of ScienceOpen for… Read More
