Susan Patton joins the Society for Scholarly Publishing as Program Director - March 16, 2023
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has announced the appointment of Susan Patton to their team as Program Director. Patton will work collaboratively with SSP’s programming-focused committees, Executive Director, and Board in setting a strategic direction for developing all educational programming of the Society. As Program… Read More
SciBite unveils Workbench, makes data curation simple and intuitive - March 15, 2023
SciBite, an Elsevier company that offers semantic technology solutions, has launched a new tool called Workbench that simplifies the process of curating data to terminology and ontology standards. This new tool can help organizations implement a FAIR approach to data management,… Read More
Big Ten Academic Alliance partners with OA Switchboard to support open access - March 15, 2023
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) libraries have announced a new partnership with OA Switchboard to aid in the transition to open access and promote the growth of open scholarship. This partnership will allow BTAA members to benefit from OA Switchboard's standardized metadata protocol… Read More
IOP Publishing secures first OA agreements in Asia - March 15, 2023
Society publisher IOP Publishing (IOPP) has announced its first transformative agreements (TAs) in Asia to deliver open access (OA) at scale globally. The three-year read and publish agreements were signed with the University of Hong Kong (HKU), the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and The Hong… Read More
Republic of Ireland continues to benefit from BMJ Best Practice for third year running - March 15, 2023
Health Library Ireland (HLI) has extended its national subscription to BMJ Best Practice for the third year running, providing clinical and patient education information to everyone in the Republic of Ireland, including Health Service Executive (HSE) healthcare professionals. BMJ Best Practice is a tool that offers… Read More
EMBO Press transitions to fully open access - March 15, 2023
Scientific publisher EMBO Press has announced that effective from January 1, 2024, all its journals, including The EMBO Journal and EMBO Reports, will switch from encouraging Open Access publication to applying Open Access to all published papers. The move aims to promote Open Science for individual researchers,… Read More
