ACM announces inaugural issue of new interdisciplinary OA journal exploring how technology is transforming government - February 26, 2020
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced the inaugural issue of Digital Government: Research and Practice (DGOV), a new interdisciplinary open access journal on the impact of technology on governance and public institutions. DGOV presents applied and empirical research from academics, practitioners, designers and technologists,… Read More
Ex Libris announces enhancements to the Ex Libris Pivot research funding database - February 26, 2020
Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has announced enhancements to the Ex Libris Pivot® research funding database, a comprehensive resource for global funding opportunities sources. The new Awarded Grants feature in Pivot enables researchers and research offices to gain valuable insights by searching millions of previously… Read More
UCLA-based physician scientist brings distinguished career in electrophysiology to journal editorship - February 26, 2020
Dr. Kalyanam Shivkumar has been named the next editor-in-chief of JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology. Shivkumar is a physician scientist who serves as the director of the UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, as well as the university’s electrophysiology programs. He is a professor of medicine (cardiology), radiology and bioengineering… Read More
The American Diabetes Association unveils new portal for sharing and discovering supplementary research data powered by Figshare - February 26, 2020
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) has launched a new portal for sharing and discovering supplementary research data powered by Figshare, available at https://diabetesjournals.figshare.com. Supplementary research data published in four of the ADA’s journals - Diabetes, Diabetes Care,… Read More
ACS signs first North American ‘read and publish’ agreement with Louisiana State University - February 25, 2020
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Louisiana State University (LSU) have announced a transformative open access agreement. The agreement provides researchers at LSU with full access to ACS journals and allows for financial support for corresponding authors at the university to… Read More
SAGE launches new portal to streamline open access publishing process - February 25, 2020
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced the launch of a new portal that enables authors, consortia, libraries, and funders to manage the open access publishing workflow. Named the SAGE Open Access Portal, the platform currently supports SAGE Choice, the publisher’s hybrid Open Access (OA) publishing option,… Read More
