Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - January 11, 2016
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Vyacheslav Polonski (The Next Decade of Data Science: Rethinking key challenges faced by big data researchers); Justin Fox (Academic publishing is all about status); Joseph Esposito (The Terrible Burden of a Prestigious Brand); Elizabeth Gibney (Open journals that piggyback on… Read More
Publishers require authors to use an ORCID identifier during the publication process - January 8, 2016
A group of seven publishers have announced, during 2016, they will begin requiring authors to use an ORCID identifier (iD) during the publication process. The American Geophysical Union (AGU), eLife, EMBO, Hindawi, the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Public Library of Science… Read More
Elsevier announces inaugural issue of new open access journal – Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications - January 8, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the first issue of its new open access journal - Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications. The issue features a new method to make cancer clinical trials more effective, a better way of determining whether a trial was successful and a dashboard that… Read More
New national licence agreement offers Switzerland unlimited access to Cochrane Library - January 8, 2016
A new national licence agreement offers Switzerland unlimited access to the Cochrane Library - the leading resource in evidence-based health care. Swiss patients and healthcare practitioners will now have access to more than 6500 published systematic reviews in healthcare interventions through one-click access to the… Read More
ProQuest SIPX recognized as a way to reduce adoption barriers to OER content - January 8, 2016
ProQuest SIPX is paving the way for higher education institutions and campus leaders to reduce students' cost of education by leveraging increased use of open educational resources (OER) as part of the SIPX® complete course materials solution. ProQuest SIPX has generated more than $3.6million to… Read More
The Optical Society announces new Editors-in-Chief for three journals - January 8, 2016
The Optical Society (OSA) has announced three new editors-in-chief. Christoph Hitzenberger, P. Scott Carney and Alexandra Boltasseva have been appointed as the new editors-in-chief of Biomedical Optics Express, Journal of the Optical Society of America A and Optical Materials Express, respectively. Christoph Hitzenberger, Biomedical Optics… Read More
