Dr. Steven J. Stack named AMA president-elect - June 10, 2014
The American Medical Association (AMA) has named Dr. Steven J. Stack, an emergency physician practicing in Lexington, Ky., as president-elect. Following a year-long term as president-elect, Dr. Stack will assume the office of AMA president in June 2015. Elected to the AMA Board of Trustees… Read More
NISO releases draft white paper summarising Phase I of its Alternative Assessment Metrics Project for public comment - June 10, 2014
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has released a draft white paper summarising Phase I of its Alternative Assessment Metrics (Altmetrics) Project for public comment. The initiative was launched in July 2013, with a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to study, propose, and… Read More
ARL calls for proposals for SPEC survey topics 2015 - June 10, 2014
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is seeking proposals for 2015 SPEC survey topics. For 40 years ARL has gathered and disseminated data through the SPEC survey program to assist libraries in the continuous improvement of their management systems. Each year, ARL works with librarians in… Read More
Nature Publishing Group and JAAM announce 2015 launch of open access journal – npj Aging and Mechanisms of Disease - June 9, 2014
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the Japanese Society of Anti-Aging Medicine (JAAM) have announced the 2015 launch of npj Aging and Mechanisms of Disease. The online open access journal will go live on nature.com in Q1 2015, and will begin accepting submissions in September… Read More
PLOS ONE witnesses 25 percent fall in submissions - June 9, 2014
The number of papers published by one of the world's largest open-access journal, PLOS ONE, has plunged over the past few months after rising fairly steadily for years, notes Phil Davis, a scholarly publishing blogger. According to Davis, PLOS ONE may have become a less attractive… Read More
Reed Business Information acquires agricultural software and workflow solutions business, Farmade - June 9, 2014
Reed Business Information (RBI), a division of Reed Elsevier, recently announced that it has acquired the entire issued share capital of agricultural software and workflow solutions business Farmade. Farmade will join RBI's agricultural information, software and marketing solutions business, Farmers Weekly Group. Farmade provides widely… Read More
