ALPSP Awards 2017 winners announced - September 18, 2017
The winners of the 2017 ALPSP Awards were announced at the ALPSP Conference Dinner on September 14. The ALPSP Council presented the 2017 ALPSP Award for Contribution to Scholarly Publishing to Sara Miller McCune, Founder and Executive Chairman, SAGE Publishing. … Read More
Clarivate Analytics announces Dr. Jian Wang as winner of Eugene Garfield Award - September 18, 2017
Clarivate Analytics, the global provider of trusted insights and analytics to enable researchers to accelerate discovery, has announced the recipient of its first competition for the Eugene Garfield Award for Innovation in Citation Analysis, at a memorial symposium for Dr. Eugene Garfield, to commemorate and celebrate… Read More
Publishers join NLM initiative to launch Emergency Access Initiative, granting free access to books and journals for libraries impacted by hurricanes Harvey and Irma - September 18, 2017
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has activated the Emergency Access Initiative (EAI) in response to Hurricanes Irma and Harvey which devastated Florida and several Caribbean islands, as well as parts of South Carolina, Texas, and Louisiana. The EAI is a collaborative partnership between NLM… Read More
Hindawi and AAAS sign publishing partnership - September 18, 2017
Hindawi has announced the signing of a publishing partnership agreement with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Hindawi will support AAAS by providing post-acceptance publishing services for AAAS's new Science Partner Journal publishing program. AAAS anticipates its first partner… Read More
SPIE Digital Library moves to new site with improved, agile functionality - September 18, 2017
Scholarly publisher SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced the move of the SPIE Digital Library on August 15 to a new and substantially enhanced website. Developed internally by SPIE to create an improved user experience and incorporate… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - September 18, 2017
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Tony Ross-Hellauer (Open peer review: bringing transparency, accountability, and inclusivity to the peer review process); Phil Davis (Do We Need A Self-Citation Index?); Josh Clark (Altmetric at the University of Surrey); Karin Wulf (Does Born-Digital Mean Rethinking Peer Review?); and… Read More
