The first-ever NISO Plus conference – Early bird registration open through January 15 - January 10, 2020
The first-ever NISO Plus conference is scheduled to be held from February 23-25, 2020, in Baltimore, MD. Building on the success of the former NFAIS annual conference, the idea is to make the meeting as inclusive as possible for the information community. Early bird Read More
F1000 Research joins Taylor & Francis Group - January 10, 2020
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group, part of Informa plc, has announced the addition of cutting-edge open research publisher F1000 Research Ltd. United by their shared goals of amplifying and democratising research, the addition is an important further step in strengthening… Read More
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(NIH) published a request for public comments on a DRAFT NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing and supplemental DRAFT guidance.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
