Frontiers partners with journal policy database TRANSPOSE to make science open - November 25, 2019
Frontiers has announced a partnership with journal policy database TRANSPOSE to achieve its aim to make science open. It is expected that this partnership with TRANSPOSE will enable Frontiers’ open-access policies to reach a wider audience. TRANSPOSE is an unbiased database of journal policies on open… Read More
ARL, ACRL, ALA extend Joint Advisory Task Force on IPEDS Academic Libraries component definitions - November 25, 2019
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), and the American Library Association (ALA) have extended their Joint Advisory Task Force through August 31, 2022, to continue efforts to bring the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System… Read More
Editage partners with the British Blockchain Association to expand support services to journal authors - November 25, 2019
Editage, a science communications brand by Cactus Communications (CACTUS), has announced a partnership with the British Blockchain Association (BBA) to offer a bouquet of services for authors submitting to the Journal of British Blockchain Association (JBBA). These services will be available on the co-branded service website… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - November 25, 2019
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Phil Davis (Is PLOS running Out of time? Financial statements suggest urgency to innovate); Alberto Baccini, Giuseppe De Nicolao and Eugenio Petrovich (Working to the rule – How bibliometric targets distorted Italian research); Dan Morgan, Rebecca Kirk, Madison Crystal, and… Read More
US-China research collaborations to be stronger than ever, while UK-EU collaborations halt, reveals latest Nature Index supplement - November 22, 2019
The number of articles tracked by the Nature Index that were co-authored by Chinese and US researchers increased from 3,413 in 2015 to 4,631 in 2018. Data from the Nature Index also showed that Chinese authors collaborated with researchers in the US more often than any… Read More
SPARC releases new report – Academic Community Control of Data Infrastructure – A Roadmap for Action - November 22, 2019
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has released a new report: Academic Community Control of Data Infrastructure – A Roadmap for Action, to help academic institutions combat the publishing industry’s increasing control over academic data and data infrastructure. The Roadmap for Action outlines individual… Read More
