Nature Research and NASA partner for a new Nature conference on the Microbiome of the Built Environment (MoBE) - June 15, 2018
Nature Research and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will be convening a new conference designed to guide NASA’s approach to interaction with and control of the Microbiome of the Built Environment (MoBE) of future spacecraft including transports, habitats, landers, rovers… Read More
MIT Libraries and the Royal Society of Chemistry sign ‘Read and Publish’ agreement - June 15, 2018
The MIT Libraries and the Royal Society of Chemistry have signed a license agreement that incorporates elements of a traditional subscription purchase and open access to scholarly articles. The experimental two-year agreement, known as ‘read and publish,’ is seen as an… Read More
SAGE Publishing titles honoured with Textbook and Academic Authors Association Awards - June 15, 2018
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced that four of its titles will receive awards from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA) at their annual conference on June 15. The only publisher that won in every award category, SAGE’s honours include: Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design:… Read More
HighWire becomes first systems supplier to roll out Universal CASA, in partnership with Google Scholar - June 15, 2018
HighWire, the technology partner of choice for leading commercial and scholarly publishers, has become the first systems supplier to roll out the new ‘Universal Campus Activated Subscriber Access’ service (Universal CASA) in cooperation with Google Scholar. All content published through HighWire’s Intelligent Publishing Platform will be… Read More
IOP Publishing launches two new review journals – Progress in Biomedical Engineering and Progress in Energy - June 15, 2018
IOP Publishing has launched two new review journals, Progress in Biomedical Engineering and Progress in Energy, dedicated to biomedical engineering and energy research. To build on the success of Reports on Progress in Physics, and IOP Publishing’s established energy and biomedical engineering titles, the new journals… Read More
COAR convenes meeting to discuss implementation of technical recommendations in the COAR Next Generation Repositories Report - June 15, 2018
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) recently held a meeting of open source repository platforms to talk about the implementation of technical recommendations in the COAR Next Generation Repositories Report. The meeting was held in conjunction with the Open Repositories Conference in Bozeman, Montana, and… Read More
