eLife to develop SwipesForScience to speed up research - December 4, 2018
eLife is collaborating with participants from its inaugural Innovation Sprint earlier this year to develop SwipesForScience, a templating service that lets researchers quickly create mobile-friendly games that allow players to help with analysing large amounts of research data. The prototype of SwipesForScience, developed at the… Read More
Chiba University launches new academic resource collection, c-arc - December 4, 2018
Chiba University has launched a new academic resource collection named 'Chiba University Academic Resource Collections (c-arc)' which makes all content published and provided by Chiba University Libraries widely available on the web. This website is a new infrastructure to realise 'Digital Scholarship,' which promotes using digital… Read More
ChemRxiv announces Direct Journal Transfer to streamline submission of research for journal peer review - December 3, 2018
ChemRxiv, a chemistry preprint server for the global chemistry community, has announced Direct Journal Transfer, a new feature that will help authors submit their posted preprints to established journals for editorial consideration and peer review. This feature, which is now available on the ChemRxiv website, currently… Read More
Cambridge University Press signs major OA deal with Bibsam - December 3, 2018
Academic Publisher Cambridge University Press has reached a major open access deal with higher education and research institutions in Sweden. The three-year 'read and publish' deal has been agreed with Bibsam, a consortium of 85 higher education and research institutions, led by the National Library… Read More
Society for Scholarly Publishing collaborates with Arnoud de Kemp to organise 2019 APE Pre-Conference in Berlin - December 3, 2018
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is collaborating with Arnoud de Kemp to organise the APE Pre-Conference in Berlin, Germany, on January 14, 2019. Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) is an independent, multidisciplinary conference established in 2006 to host an ongoing international debate about the future… Read More
American Institute of Physics receives $650,000 grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to digitise rare books - December 3, 2018
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has received a three-year, $646,697 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to make a unique collection of rare books in the physical sciences universally accessible. The grant will enable AIP's Niels Bohr Library & Archives to provide global,… Read More
