MedPage appoints Dr. Marty Makary as new editor in chief - January 13, 2020
The Everyday Health Group, a division of J2 Global Inc. has announced the appointment of Dr. Marty Makary as Editor-in-Chief at MedPage, a trusted and reliable daily healthcare news source reaching 800,000 healthcare professionals on a daily basis. Makary is Chief of Islet Transplant Surgery at… Read More
Bentley University announce professors David M. Wasieleski and James Weber as the new editors for Ethics Journal - January 13, 2020
The W. Michael Hoffman Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University has announced that professors David M. Wasieleski and James Weber have agreed to serve as the new editors of the center's journal, Business and Society Review (BASR). BASR is a peer-reviewed academic journal that addresses a wide range… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - January 13, 2020
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Roger C. Schonfeld (Who Is Competing to Own Researcher Identity?); Phil Davis(Study: Recommender Systems May Increase Citations); James W. Weis, Amy Brand and Joi Ito (The Case for an Institutionally Owned Knowledge Infrastructure); Jeffrey Brainard (Articles in ‘predatory' journals receive… Read More
The first-ever NISO Plus conference – Early bird registration open through January 15 - January 10, 2020
The first-ever NISO Plus conference is scheduled to be held from February 23-25, 2020, in Baltimore, MD. Building on the success of the former NFAIS annual conference, the idea is to make the meeting as inclusive as possible for the information community. Early bird Read More
F1000 Research joins Taylor & Francis Group - January 10, 2020
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group, part of Informa plc, has announced the addition of cutting-edge open research publisher F1000 Research Ltd. United by their shared goals of amplifying and democratising research, the addition is an important further step in strengthening… Read More
ARL comments on Draft NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing - January 10, 2020
On November 6, 2019, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) published a request for public comments on a DRAFT NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing and supplemental DRAFT guidance. NIH has a long history of promoting public access to the research it funds, including… Read More
