The Society for Scholarly Publishing and Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination to “write the book” on the future of scholarly publishing in 72 hour sprint - May 17, 2016
Arizona State University's (ASU) Center for Science and the Imagination is bringing together a team of science fiction authors, scholars, digital publishers, journalists, and technologists to write a book on the fly in 72 hours at the 2016 Society for Scholarly Publishing… Read More
Elsevier publishes new Encyclopedia of Immunobiology - May 17, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of Encyclopedia of Immunobiology, edited by Michael Ratcliffe. It provides the largest integrated source of immunological knowledge currently available, consisting of broad ranging, validated summaries of all major topics in the field written by a team of leading experts.… Read More
EBSCO Health and American Medical Association partner to give all AMA members access to DynaMed Plus - May 17, 2016
Clinical decision support solutions provider EBSCO Health and the American Medical Association (AMA) have expanded their partnership to give all AMA-members complimentary access to DynaMed Plus®, the evidence-based, clinical information resource that is designed to provide the most useful information to healthcare professionals at the point… Read More
Overleaf announces new partnership with Royal Society of Chemistry - May 17, 2016
Overleaf has announced a new partnership with the Royal Society of Chemistry. Through this partnership, authors submitting to the Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) journal will have access to the award-winning Overleaf collaborative cloud-based writing and reviewing tool with 1-click submission into… Read More
OASPA Board announces recent changes to OASPA team - May 17, 2016
The OASPA Board have appointed Claire Redhead as Executive Director of OASPA to reflect her role as leading operations and expansion of the association. OASPA has seen significant support since it was founded in 2008, growing to almost 100 members during this time, and is… Read More
NISO releases draft altmetrics recommended practices on Data Metrics, Alternative Outputs, and Persistent Identifiers - May 17, 2016
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is seeking comments on three draft documents related to Altmetrics: NISO RP-25-201x-2A, Alternative Outputs in Scholarly Communications: Data Metrics; NISO RP-25-201x-2B, Persistent Identifiers in Scholarly Communications; and NISO RP-25-201x-2C, Alternative Outputs in Scholarly Communications. The documents are the latest… Read More
