Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - April 20, 2020
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Samuel Moore (Without stronger academic governance, Covid-19 will concentrate the corporate control of academic publishing); David Schott (Now is the time: Perspectives on the challenges and value of metadata); Glyn Moody (Open source, open science: the coronavirus crisis is when… Read More
Elsevier unveils COVID-19 Healthcare Hub, a free resource to help clinicians worldwide in combatting the on-going pandemic - April 17, 2020
Elsevier, a global leader in information analytics specialising in science and health, has launched a new resource to aid healthcare workers on the front lines of managing the novel coronavirus health crisis. The COVID-19 Healthcare Hub provides free access to toolkits, expert insights, research resources and… Read More
Springer Nature and swissuniversities reach understanding on a new transformative agreement - April 17, 2020
Springer Nature has reached an understanding on a new transformative read and publish deal with swissuniversities. Both parties have signed a Memorandum of Understanding; the final agreement will be concluded between Springer Nature and the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries this summer. Once signed, the… Read More
SSP’s virtual event recap: Seeking Sustainability: Publishing Models for an Open Access Age - April 17, 2020
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) presented its virtual large-scale virtual event, ‘Seeking Sustainability: Publishing Models for an Open Access Age,’ on April 2, 2020. This event was originally scheduled as an in-person event in conjunction with the UKSG Annual Meeting (planned for Brighton, UK), but… Read More
ACM releases report on best practices for virtual conferences - April 17, 2020
Science and technology conferences are engines of innovation—essential to the incubation of new ideas, the dissemination of research, and the spawning of new technologies. But this year, with no warning, conferences around the globe are finding themselves in uncharted waters as the global COVID-19 pandemic makes physical meetings impossible. To… Read More
AIP Publishing signs multi-year Read and Publish agreement with KAUST - April 17, 2020
AIP Publishing, a not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has signed a multi-year ‘Read and Publish’ agreement with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. KAUST is the first university from the Middle… Read More
