Taylor & Francis announces new partnerships with the Australian Science Media Centre and the Media Centre for Education Research Australia - October 9, 2017
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has announced new partnerships with the Australian Science Media Centre (AusSMC) and the Media Centre for Education Research Australia (MCERA). The media centres offer independent, non-profit services for the news media which encourage quality research-based reporting. They offer expert advice and… Read More
BMC launches new journal – Sustainable Earth - October 9, 2017
Open access publisher BMC (part of Springer Nature) has launched its new journal - Sustainable Earth. The journal aims to work closely with scientists, policy makers and the general public to facilitate and enhance the communication of information in the field of sustainability. Prof. Peter Newman… Read More
ASM and Publons partner to bring recognition to peer reviewers - October 9, 2017
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has announced a partnership with Publons to support scientists who agree to serve as reviewers of manuscripts submitted to the ASM Journals. Through the partnership, ASM reviewers are able to seamlessly keep a record of every… Read More
CALIBRE awarded NLM data review contract - October 9, 2017
CALIBRE Systems, Inc. (CALIBRE) has been awarded a new contract with the National Library of Medicine. CALIBRE will support the National Library of Medicine by reviewing and entering metadata on journal article citations that have been approved for indexing in MEDLINE, a database of bibliographic information… Read More
LIBER announces two new Executive Board members - October 9, 2017
The Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) has announced that two new library professionals — Agnès Ponsati Obiols, Digital Library and Information Systems Director at the Spanish National Library, and Bertil Dorch, Director of the University Library of Southern Denmark — have joined the Executive Board.… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 9, 2017
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Angela Cochran (Turning a Critical Eye on Reference Lists); Craig Griffin (Breaking Down Barriers in Scholarly Publishing); Robert Jäschke, Stephanie B. Linek and Christian P. Hoffmann (New media, familiar dynamics: academic hierarchies influence academics' following behaviour on Twitter); Mike Iarrobino… Read More
