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AACR names Dr. Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue as new editor-in-chief of the Journal Cancer Research -

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has announced the appointment of Dr. Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue, as the editor-in-chief of Cancer Research, one of the 10 highly esteemed peer-reviewed journals published by the AACR. Established in 1941, Cancer Research is the foundational journal… Read More

Europe PMC releases annotated full-text corpus for biomedical entities and associations -

Europe PMC, an open access repository of life science research, has developed a new approach to extract relevant information from research papers using machine learning algorithms. Text-mining algorithms can be used to automatically extract key concepts, relationships, and findings from scientific papers, allowing researchers to quickly identify… Read More

UK universities renew national open access deal with Frontiers -

Researchers from over 160 UK universities will continue to benefit from a simplified and streamlined route to open access publishing, owing to the renewal of JISC collections’ partnership with gold open access publisher Frontiers. The initial partnership with JISC, which undertakes negotiations and… Read More

Open Science advocacy and capacity building for leadership in African Higher Education Institutions -

The Association for African Universities (AAU), the Public Library of Science (PLOS), and the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) have shared the results of the first two of four regional policy workshops that they are hosting with Presidents, Vice Chancellors,… Read More

Royal Society Publishing set to launch seminar series across their journals portfolio -

Royal Society Publishing is launching their first flagship seminar series in Evolution and Ecology. The series will cover compelling new research in the field with speakers and topics sourced from recent articles published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B as well as other… Read More

More institutions join F1000’s Japan Institutional Gateway, open research is expanding significantly across Japan -

The Tokai University, Tsukuba University of Technology and Utsunomiya University have signed up as affiliates of F1000’s Japan Institutional Gateway (JIG), following the lead of the University of Tsukuba. These agreements enable researchers from these affiliated institutions to… Read More


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