ARL comments on Draft NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing - January 10, 2020
On November 6, 2019, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) published a request for public comments on a DRAFT NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing and supplemental DRAFT guidance. NIH has a long history of promoting public access to the research it funds, including… Read More
eLife announces Timothy Behrens as new Deputy Editor - January 10, 2020
eLife has announced the appointment of Timothy (Tim) Behrens as the new Deputy Editor. Behrens, Professor of Computational Neuroscience at Oxford University and University College London (UK), and a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, was formerly a Senior Editor for eLife. He will now work alongside… Read More
The Optical Society announces new Editors-in-Chief for 3 high-quality Journals - January 10, 2020
The Optical Society (OSA) has announced that Miguel Alonso, Prem Kumar and Guifang Li have been appointed as the new editors-in-chief of Optics Letters, Optica, and Advances in Optics and Photonics, respectively. Each of the editors-in-chief began their tenure on January 1, 2020. Miguel Alonso… Read More
OCLC awarded Mellon Foundation grant to develop infrastructure to support linked data management initiatives - January 10, 2020
OCLC has been awarded a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop a shared ‘Entity Management Infrastructure’ that will support linked data management initiatives underway in the library and scholarly communications community. When complete, this infrastructure will be jointly curated… Read More
Kudos unveils new Research Showcase to maximise non-academic impact of research projects - January 10, 2020
Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact through strategic communications management, has announced the launch of its new Research Showcase. This public website claims to be the world’s first platform to drive discovery of ‘research in progress’, providing stakeholders – from… Read More
Springer Nature and Germany’s Projekt DEAL sign world’s largest transformative Open Access agreement - January 9, 2020
Springer Nature and MPDL Services GmbH on behalf of Projekt DEAL has announced that the formal contract for the world’s largest transformative Open Access (OA) agreement to date has been signed. Dated January 1, 2020, the agreement provides OA publishing services and full reading access to… Read More
