Demand for relevant, in-depth, and necessary publications in the physical sciences continues to grow - July 20, 2021
AIP Publishing, a wholly owned not-for-profit subsidiary of the American Institute of Physics, has released more than 20 titles in its inaugural collection of 40 new digital books due to publish by the end of the year. Since launching the books program in September 2020, AIP Publishing… Read More
COAR releases version 3.0 of the resource types vocabulary - July 20, 2021
COAR has announced the release of version 3.0 of the resource types vocabulary. Since 2015, three COAR Controlled Vocabularies have been developed and are maintained by the Controlled Vocabulary Editorial Board: Resource types, access rights and version types. These vocabularies have a new look and are now… Read More
SPIE announces read and publish agreement with Delft University of Technology - July 20, 2021
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced a new open access agreement with the Netherlands' Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), effective July 1, 2021. For TU Delft, a long-time subscriber to the SPIE Digital Library, this agreement adds open… Read More
RAS unveils new multi-disciplinary journal - July 20, 2021
The Royal Astronomical Society has announced the launch of its first new journal in almost 100 years. Tentatively titled RAS Techniques and Instruments, it will cover topics in astronomy and geophysics ranging from instrumentation, data science, machine learning, software, and numerical and statistical methods. The RAS plans… Read More
SSP announces its fifth annual New Directions Seminar in Scholarly Publishing - July 19, 2021
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has announced its fifth annual New Directions Seminar in Scholarly Publishing, happening online October 6-7, 2021. This year’s theme, “How to Move Fast and Not Break Things: Balancing High-Speed Outputs at the Risk of Slamming on the Brakes,” takes a deep… Read More
COAR announces strategy to modernize the global repository network - July 19, 2021
The trend towards open science / open scholarship is strengthening and expanding. The COVID-19 pandemic has made open scholarship a top priority for governments and the research community around the world and there is a growing recognition about the need for greater equity in scholarly communications, as underscored in the… Read More
