Carnegie Mellon Publishing deal marks open access milestone - November 22, 2019
Carnegie Mellon University, a long time proponent of open-access research, is championing an international movement to revolutionise academic publishing.
The university recently reached a transformative agreement with the scientific publishing giant Elsevier that prioritises free and public access to the university’s research.… Read MoreThe Company of Biologists and Jisc announce two-year pilot transitional OA agreement from January 2020 - November 22, 2019
The Company of Biologists and Jisc have announced a two-year pilot transitional open access (OA) agreement from January 2020. The 'Read and Publish’ deal will permit researchers at participating institutions unlimited access to all three subscription journals from The Company of Biologists,… Read More
OpenAthens announces programme for Access Lab 2020 conference - November 22, 2019
Leading single sign-on provider OpenAthens has revealed the programme for its annual Access Lab conference taking place on March 19, 2020 at America Square Conference Centre, London. With the theme of ‘simplifying the future together’, the highly anticipated conference will bring together experts from a wide… Read More
ARL releases white paper on integrating digital humanities into the Web of Scholarship with SHARE - November 22, 2019
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released a white paper that reports the findings of a two-year project investigating the value SHARE could have for digital humanities scholars. SHARE is an open-source community that develops tools and services to connect related research outputs for new… Read More
Elsevier and the US Food and Drug Administration collaborate to build predictive drug-induced liver injury algorithm - November 21, 2019
Elsevier, a global information analytics business specialising in science and health, has entered into a Collaborative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR) at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Effective October 8, 2019, NCTR and Elsevier began collaborating on… Read More
James G. Neal announced as 2020 Miles Conrad Award recipient - November 21, 2019
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced James G. Neal as the 2020 Miles Conrad Lecturer. Neal will be presented with this prestigious award on February 24, 2020 at the NISO Plus Conference in Baltimore, MD. Neal is the University Librarian Emeritus at Columbia University,… Read More
