GeoScienceWorld’s Lithosphere to run on Phenom, an open system built by Hindawi - February 10, 2020
Hindawi's open source scholarly infrastructure platform, Phenom, will now power the newly relaunched Lithosphere - the society-run, open access community journal for geosciences. The contract between GeoScienceWorld (GSW) and Hindawi was signed in late 2019 with Lithosphere opening for submissions on January 13, 2020. Lithosphere has… Read More
BMJ appoints Yu-Chuan Li as new Editor-in-Chief for BMJ Health & Care Informatics journal - February 10, 2020
Professor Yu-Chuan (Jack) Li, a researcher of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine and medical informatics, and a practicing dermatologist, has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Health & Care Informatics, one of more than 70 specialist journals published by BMJ. Professor Li, who… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - February 10, 2020
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (Revisiting — Transformative Agreements: A Primer); Robert M. Kaplan (Open science, publishing, and public research support: Could Trump have it right?); Neal Haddaway and Michael Gusenbauer (A broken system – why literature searching needs a FAIR revolution);… Read More
Clarivate Analytics opens up wealth of insights and data to support research on Coronaviruses - February 7, 2020
To support medical researchers, policymakers, journalists and healthcare professionals in their efforts to better understand and combat coronavirus, now declared a global health emergency, an array of valuable Clarivate resources have been assembled. Clarivate has proprietary data and insights spanning scientific and academic research, life sciences… Read More
Nature authors now have the option to have anonymous referee reports published once a manuscript is ready for publication - February 7, 2020
Nature Research announced that beginning this week, authors of new submissions to its flagship publication, Nature, will be offered the option to have anonymous referee reports published, along with their own responses and rebuttals, once a manuscript is ready for publication. Referees… Read More
IOP Publishing fortifies commitment to open science - February 7, 2020
Society-owned publisher IOP Publishing (IOPP) has set out its commitments to supporting open science across the physical sciences with the launch of open physics. Open physics is rooted in IOPP’s belief that conducting science more openly can accelerate scientific discovery. It combines an evolving programme of… Read More
