Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation join European open-access plan - November 7, 2018
Two of the world’s largest biomedical research funders have backed a plan to make all papers resulting from work they fund open access on publication by 2020. On 5 November, the London-based Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington, announced… Read More
Springer Nature to publish the official journal of the Proteomic Society of India – Journal of Proteins and Proteomics - November 7, 2018
An international, peer-reviewed journal that amalgamates two important areas of life sciences research – proteins and proteomics – has now become part of the Springer Nature journal portfolio. The Journal of Proteins and Proteomics aims to further the areas of health and medicine, agriculture and manufacturing… Read More
EBSCO partners with American Library Association to offer scholarship for librarians outside US to attend ALA Annual Conference - November 7, 2018
The American Library Association (ALA) and EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) are partnering to offer three scholarships to librarians residing outside of the US to attend the 2019 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition. This year’s conference will take place from June 20… Read More
SLACK Inc. launches new publication, Healio Primary Care Today - November 7, 2018
Independent STM publisher SLACK Incorporated, the publisher of Healio, has announced the launch of a new publication, Healio Primary Care Today. The publication will debut at the American College of Physicians Annual Meeting in April 2019 and is set to print six times a year. … Read More
CCC co-funded Resource Access for the 21st Century (RA21) Corporate Pilot Report published - November 7, 2018
The International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM) and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have released their RA21 Corporate Pilot Report, co-funded by Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC). The report identifies best practices for adopting… Read More
Frontiers distributes content to institutional repositories via Jisc’s Publications Router service - November 7, 2018
Frontiers has announced that it is the latest open access publisher to automatically distribute content to institutional repositories via Jisc’s Publications Router service. Having published more than 95,000 articles to date in 61 journals, covering 500 academic disciplines including in Life Sciences,… Read More
