Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - December 19, 2016
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Iain Hrynaszkiewicz (Making research more accessible with Figshare); Kent Anderson (STM Week 2016 - Stray Thoughts on Security, Open Access, and Data); Sneha Kulkarni (Manipulating the peer review process: why it happens and how it might be prevented); and Phil… Read More
Figshare partners with Springer Nature to enhance research data discoverability - December 16, 2016
Figshare, an online digital repository for academic research, has announced a new partnership with Springer Nature to support BioMed Central and SpringerOpen authors who wish to openly share their supplementary data. Figshare is now hosting additional files from more than 300… Read More
EBSCO Information Services and Clarivate Analytics to make BIOSIS Previews and Zoological Record available via EBSCOhost platform - December 16, 2016
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) will be adding two new resources, BIOSIS Previews™ and Zoological Record™, to the EBSCOhost® platform. EBSCO and Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters, have expanded their partnership to make these two resources available via EBSCOhost, the… Read More
Harvard Library selects Ex Libris Alma to unify library management across 70 Harvard Library units - December 16, 2016
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that Harvard Library has chosen the Ex Libris Alma® library management service as part of the Library's strategy to support research, teaching, and learning. Harvard University is the second Ivy League school and the 33rd member of the… Read More
Margaret Hamburg selected to serve as AAAS president-elect - December 16, 2016
Margaret Hamburg, the foreign secretary of the National Academy of Medicine, has been chosen to serve as president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She will begin her three-year term as an officer and member of the Executive Committee of the AAAS… Read More
American Society of Clinical Oncology appoints Dr. Gilberto de Lima Lopes as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Global Oncology - December 16, 2016
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has announced the appointment of Dr. Gilberto de Lima Lopes Jr. as Editor-in-Chief of the Society's Journal of Global Oncology (JGO) in early 2017. Dr. Lopes will direct the editorial scope of JGO, an online-only, open-access journal addressing the… Read More
