Scientists in Tanzania call upon government to inject more funds into research for producing reputable journals - September 21, 2015
Scientists in Tanzania have called upon the government to inject more funds into research for production of reputable journals. The call was made by the Tanzania Academy of Sciences (TAAS) Chairman, Prof Esther Mwaikambo in Dar es Salaam when opening a one day workshop at the… Read More
Applied Clinical Informatics journal becomes an official journal of AMIA, effective October 2015 - September 21, 2015
The Applied Clinical Informatics (ACI) Journal is now an official journal of AMIA, the American Medical Informatics Association. The ACI Journal is published and owned by Schattauer Publishers for Medicine and Natural Sciences. AMIA gains three seats on the ACI Journal editorial board and peer-reviewed publishing… Read More
Astronomy and Astrophysics to move to online-only publication from 2016 - September 21, 2015
STM publisher EDP Sciences has announced that the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A) will move to online-only publication from the beginning of 2016. EDP Sciences is always considering ways to best serve their partners to reflect the needs of the readers of their journals and… Read More
New CRC Press publication provides a crucial foundation for the new science of AI safety engineering - September 21, 2015
STM publisher CRC Press has announced the publication of Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach by Roman V. Yampolskiy, associate professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science and director of the CyberSecurity Lab at the University of Louisville. According to Leon Reznik, professor… Read More
Prof. Sijbrand de Jong elected as next President of CERN Council - September 21, 2015
The CERN Council has announced the election of Professor Sijbrand de Jong as its 22nd President for a period of one year renewable twice, with a mandate starting on January 1, 2016. He will take over from Professor Agnieszka Zalewska who concludes her three-year term at… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - September 21, 2015
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Rick Anderson (Library Publishing Redux: An Unprecedented Example of a Scholar/Library/Publisher Partnership); Maddie Stone (Is An Academic Publishing Giant Trying To Paywall Wikipedia?); Richard Holliman (Towards an open research university: creating the conditions where engaged research can flourish); and Alice… Read More
