National Science Foundation announces plan for comprehensive public access to research results - March 19, 2015
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced its continued commitment to expand public access to the results of its funded research through the publication of its public access plan, Today's Data, Tomorrow's Discoveries. NSF's public access is intended to accelerate the dissemination of fundamental research results… Read More
BMJ and eIntegrity partnership to provide e-learning for health professionals worldwide - March 19, 2015
Healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has teamed up with eIntegrity to provide e-learning programmes for health professionals around the world. The programmes have been developed by e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH), a Health Education England programme, in collaboration with the UK's medical Royal Colleges and other expert… Read More
NISO approves new projects to develop standards for bibliographic vocabulary exchange - March 19, 2015
The voting members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved three new projects to develop standards to better support exchange and interoperability of bibliographic data. These projects were identified as high priorities in NISO's Bibliographic Roadmap pre-standards initiative, which was funded by a grant… Read More
Oxford University Press wins Publisher of the Year Award 2015 from UK Booksellers’ Association - March 19, 2015
Academic publisher Oxford University Press has been honoured with the Publisher of the Year Award 2015 by the UK Booksellers' Association. This is the sixth consecutive year that the Press has claimed the title since 2010. Voted for by members of the Booksellers' Association Academic,… Read More
IEEE and SMPTE partner to bring innovative standards and peer-reviewed articles in motion-imaging technology to IEEE Xplore Digital Library - March 18, 2015
Technical professional organisation IEEE has announced a partnership with the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), the worldwide leader in motion-imaging standards and education for the communications, media, entertainment, and technology industries. With this partnership, IEEE will host the SMPTE Digital Library within the… Read More
Elsevier unveils new journal – Molecular Astrophysics - March 18, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of the Molecular Astrophysics, a new journal focusing on the formation of molecules in space. Molecular Astrophysics provides a new publishing platform for scientists studying chemical processes that form and deconstruct molecules, and control chemical abundances in the universe.… Read More
