Board of Directors of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network announce re-appointment of Clare Appavoo for five-year term - January 22, 2018
The Board of Directors of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) has announced the re-appointment of Clare Appavoo as the organisation's Executive Director for a further five year term, effective January 1, 2018. Since joining CRKN in December 2012, Clare has proven to be a… Read More
Pensoft integrates its journals with Catalogue of Life - January 22, 2018
Scholarly publisher Pensoft has implemented a new integration with the global organisation Catalogue of Life (CoL), so that it joins in the effort to encourage authors publishing global taxonomic review in any of the publisher's journals to upload their taxonomic contributions to the database. Whenever… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - January 22, 2018
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Alison Mudditt (Countering the Über-Brands: The Case for the Megajournal); Phil Baty (This is why we publish the World University Rankings); Roger C. Schonfeld (A New Citation Database Launches Today: Digital Science’s Dimensions); Björn Brembs and Guy Geltner (The scholarly… Read More
FinELib consortium and Elsevier in deal for subscription access and open access publishing - January 19, 2018
The FinELib consortium and Elsevier have signed an agreement making Elsevier's globally published research articles available to Finnish academic institutions, while providing Finnish researches with incentives to publish open access if they so choose. The three-year contract applies to 13 Finnish universities, 11 research institutions and… Read More
Association of Health Care Journalists partners with Wiley to provide member access to health science research - January 19, 2018
The Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) has enhanced its partnership with global research and learning company, John Wiley and Sons Inc., to provide members with access to the full collection of journals published on Wiley Online Library. AHCJ members can now read 6 million articles… Read More
APA releases new Journal Article Reporting Standards - January 19, 2018
The American Psychological Association (APA) has released Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) for researchers seeking to publish in scholarly journals. The move is part of the Association's promotion of greater transparency and the assessment of rigor in psychological science. One set of standards applies to… Read More
