OSA announces new editors-in-chief for Advances in Optics and Photonics and Optics Letters - February 3, 2014
The Optical Society (OSA) has announced that Govind Agrawal and Xi-Cheng Zhang have been named the new editors-in-chief of Advances in Optics and Photonics and Optics Letters, respectively. Agrawal, a professor of optics and physics at the University of Rochester, will serve as the second editor… Read More
NIMS, Japan and Switzerland-based Empa partner to expand opportunities for open access publishing in materials science - February 3, 2014
The National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS, Japan) has announced a new collaboration with the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa, Switzerland) to expand the open access journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM). NIMS and Empa… Read More
Registration for OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting now open - February 3, 2014
Library information provider OCLC Research has announced that registration is now open for the OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting, scheduled for June 10-12, 2014 in Amsterdam. Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners, Libraries & Research: Supporting Change/Changing Support will take place at the DoubleTree by… Read More
ARL hosts MLIS Students in Leadership Symposium at ALA Midwinter Meeting - February 3, 2014
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) hosted its 10th Annual Leadership Symposium for master of library and information science (MLIS) students participating in ARL diversity recruitment programs during the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 23–26. The ARL Leadership Symposium curriculum focuses… Read More
Swets Scholarship Competition: Entries are open to win a place at the 2014 UKSG Conference - February 3, 2014
Information services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced that entries are open to win a full registration at the 2014 UKSG Conference and Exhibition – a prize worth over £800. The UKSG conference is an important annual gathering for all involved in the scholarly information industry.… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - February 3, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Can Mega-journals Maintain Boundaries When They and Their Customers Align on “Publish or Perish”?); Casey Brienza Paying twice or paying thrice? Open access publishing in a global system of scholarly knowledge production and consumption); Joseph Esposito (The Market… Read More
