ProQuest named as a preferred supplier in Jisc’s digital archival collections group purchasing scheme - January 16, 2019
ProQuest has been designated as a preferred supplier in Jisc's digital archival collections group purchasing scheme, giving academic institutions improved access to primary-source databases. In 2017, Jisc - a U.K. member organization that provides digital technology and digital resources for higher… Read More
NISO Voting Members approve project to develop recommended practice for a compatible taxonomy, definitions, and recognition badging scheme - January 16, 2019
The National Information Standard Organization (NISO) Voting Members have approved a project to develop a recommended practice pertaining to reproducibility in the computational and computing sciences. This work will examine existing taxonomies and badging schemes to define various levels of reproducibility and communicate these in the… Read More
AIP Publishing appoints Professor Leslie Yeo as Editor-in-Chief of Biomicrofluidics - January 16, 2019
AIP Publishing, a not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has announced the appointment of Leslie Yeo, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Melbourne, Australia, as Editor-in-Chief of Biomicrofluidics (BMF). BMF is an online-only journal that rapidly disseminates… Read More
Submissions for PeerJ’s five new chemistry journals are now open - January 16, 2019
Open access publisher PeerJ has announced that submissions are now open for five new journals dedicated to the Chemical Sciences. Researchers can now submit manuscripts to PeerJ, for peer review, to the journals PeerJ Physical Chemistry, PeerJ Organic Chemistry, PeerJ Inorganic Chemistry, PeerJ Analytical Chemistry, and… Read More
The Optical Society announces two new Editors-in-Chief - January 16, 2019
The Optical Society (OSA) has announced two new editors-in-chief. Kurt Busch and James Leger have been appointed as the new editors-in-chief of the Journal of the Optical Society of America B and Optics Express, respectively. Kurt Busch is a professor of Theoretical Optics & Photonics… Read More
Society for Scholarly Publishing to organise pre-conference at UKSG 2019 in Telford - January 15, 2019
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is organising a pre-conference on April 7, the day immediately preceding UKSG's 42nd Annual Conference and Exhibition at the Telford International Centre. UKSG is a charitable organisation offering educational programs to members of the scholarly communication and knowledge communities,… Read More
