ASAPbio and EMBO Press launch Review Commons, a pre-journal portable review platform - December 10, 2019
The ASAPbio and EMBO Press have launched Review Commons, a platform for high-quality, journal-independent peer review of manuscripts from the life sciences before submission to a journal. Authors can submit preprints or unpublished manuscripts to Review Commons for… Read More
Jisc and IOP Publishing announce new transitional open access agreement - December 10, 2019
Researchers at up to 58 UK universities will soon benefit from a new open access (OA) ‘read and publish’ agreement between Jisc and IOP Publishing (IOPP), a pioneer in open access physics publishing. The four-year agreement begins January 1, 2020. It enables… Read More
Prof. Dr. Netto named editor-in-chief of Modern Pathology - December 10, 2019
Dr. George J. Netto, professor and the Robert and Ruth Anderson Endowed Chair of the Department of Pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will assume the role of editor in chief of Modern Pathology, the scientific journal of the United States and Canadian Academy… Read More
Frontiers and University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf announce OA publishing agreement - December 10, 2019
The University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf / UKE) has established an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. The University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf has entered… Read More
Jisc and five UK-based society publishers sign pilot transitional OA agreements - December 9, 2019
Jisc and five UK-based society publishers have signed pilot transitional open access (OA) agreements, now available to UK universities. The agreements are the first to result from work undertaken by Jisc Collections, negotiating with smaller publishers to offer a sustainable transition to OA. The Microbiology Society,… Read More
GeoScienceWorld (GSW)’s journal Lithosphere appoints first editorial board members - December 9, 2019
GeoScienceWorld (GSW), a nonprofit collaborative and comprehensive resource for research and communications in the Geosciences, has announced the appointment of the following Lithosphere Editorial Board members: Matt Balme, Senior Lecturer, Planetary Environments, Open University, UK; YanniGunnell, Professor, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France; Wendy Li-Wen Mao, Professor… Read More
