Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - December 23, 2019
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Anita Bandrowski and Martijn Roelandse (Guest Post: Interesting Versus True? Measuring Transparency and Reproducibility of Biomedical Articles); Mark Carrigan (From hermits to celebrities – How social media is reshaping academic hierarchies and what we can do about it.); Robert Darby… Read More
Dear Subscribers - December 23, 2019
This is to inform you that the number of articles carried in the newsletter will be fewer than usual, as business activity during this period (Dec 25, 2019 - Jan 1, 2020) is relatively low. Also, please note that there will be no newsletter dispatch from December 24th to December… Read More
Dutch research institutions and Elsevier reach framework agreement - December 20, 2019
The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), The Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU), The Dutch Research Council (NWO), and the global information and analytics business Elsevier have reached a framework agreement. This agreement is in accordance with Plan S… Read More
Oxford University Press and the Institute of Burn Research announce publishing partnership - December 20, 2019
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) and the Institute of Burn Research, Southwest Hospital, China, have announced their new partnership to publish Burns & Trauma, the official journal of the Chinese Burn Association and Asia-Pacific Society of Scar Medicine. Burns & Trauma is an Open Access,… Read More
AAFPRS acquires JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. to publish the journal - December 20, 2019
The American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS) has acquired JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery and has selected Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. as the new publisher of the journal. The journal will now be published under the new title of Facial… Read More
Frontiers and medRxiv integration announced - December 20, 2019
Frontiers has announced that effective December 19, 2019, authors can directly submit their archived manuscripts to its publishing platform via the medical pre-print site ‘medRxiv’. medRxiv is the third platform of this type to be integrated with the Frontiers submission system. The integration with medRxiv… Read More
