Rutgers partners with Google to provide online access to 190,000 books - February 4, 2020
Students, faculty and the global public will soon be able to discover nearly 190,000 titles from Rutgers University Libraries’ collections online, as a result of a new partnership with Google. The Google Books Library Project aims to ‘build a searchable catalogue of the world’s books online.’… Read More
Textbook publishers Cengage, McGraw-Hill extend merger agreement - February 4, 2020
Textbook publishers Cengage Learning Holdings and McGraw-Hill Education, who announced last year that they would merge, have extended their merger agreement to May 1 as some countries are still reviewing the deal. The proposed merger, which was announced in May 2019, had been set to expire… Read More
American Chemical Society appoints Bryan Brooks as new editor-in-chief for Environmental Science & Technology Letters - February 4, 2020
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that Dr. Bryan W. Brooks of Baylor University has joined Environmental Science & Technology Letters as editor-in-chief. Brooks’ transdisciplinary research interests broadly include understanding and managing anthropogenic activities and stressors across levels of biological organisation.… Read More
The American Diabetes Association and Kudos partners to accelerate the positive impact of diabetes research in the world - February 4, 2020
Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact through strategic communications management, has announced a new three-year partnership with the American Diabetes Association (ADA) – a global leader in the provision of emerging diabetes knowledge. Through this partnership, Kudos will provide ADA’s… Read More
Applications now open for the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s 2020 Annual Fellowship Program - February 3, 2020
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is inviting applications for the 2020 Annual Fellowship Program. Interested candidates can begin the application process on SSP's website. Early-career professionals in the first four years of their employment in the scholarly communications industry and students enrolled in publishing or… Read More
Get rapid access to Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) sequence data from NLM’s GenBank® - February 3, 2020
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), through its GenBank® sequence database, is providing the biomedical community free and easy access to genome sequences from the novel coronavirus associated with the recent outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan, China. The outbreak was declared a global health emergency on… Read More
