The Society for Scholarly Publishing to continue its Librarian Focus Group sessions at the American Geophysical Union in Washington, DC - January 8, 2016
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) continues its Librarian Focus Group sessions with "Provoking thoughts: The End of Libraries and Publishers as We Know It". This will be a panel session held in Washington, DC, on February 2, 2016 at the American Geophysical Union. The day-long… Read More
IOP Publishing launches new journal Quantum Science and Technology - January 8, 2016
IOP Publishing has announced the launch of Quantum Science and Technology, a new, high-impact journal designed to serve the full range of subject disciplines, extending across academia and industry, now engaged with advances in fundamental quantum information science and related quantum-enabled technologies. The journal will… Read More
NISO receives two grants to undertake creation of a framework on data and privacy - January 8, 2016
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has received two grants to develop a consensus framework for mitigating and managing the privacy risks related to the collection, preservation, sharing, use, and re-use of research data sets. The grants from both the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the… Read More
Ex Libris announces Linked Data collaboration program - January 8, 2016
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest® company, has formed a program to help Ex Libris harness Linked Data technology in its resource management and discovery solutions. Institutions that have already joined the program include Boston College and University of Oklahoma in the US; University of Manitoba in Canada;… Read More
Springer Nature hits milestone of 200,000 ORCID identifiers - January 7, 2016
Springer Nature, a global research, educational and professional publisher, has reached an important new milestone, with over 200,000 ORCID identifiers in use for journal articles as of January 1, 2016. This follows November's announcement that Springer Nature will be the first publisher… Read More
HarvardX launches new MOOC featuring content from Elsevier’s high profile medical journals - January 7, 2016
HarvardX, a Harvard University-wide strategic initiative, has launched a new MOOC featuring content from several of Elsevier's high profile medical journals in response to the report of the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola by the World Health Organization.… Read More
