EDP Sciences signs the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) - July 11, 2019
EDP Sciences has joined 1445 other organisations supporting the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). The declaration ‘recognises the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated’ and ‘is a worldwide initiative covering all scholarly disciplines and all key stakeholders… Read More
BMJ and the Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan collaborate to launch BMJ’s Clinical Decision Support Initiative in Kazakhstan - July 11, 2019
Medical knowledge provider BMJ is working in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Kazakhstan to implement its Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Training Initiative, a three-year programme aimed at improving detection, diagnosis and management of infectious diseases in Kazakhstan. The main strength of any… Read More
Dr. Erin Simon Schwartz named new Editor-in-Chief of Applied Radiology - July 11, 2019
O. Oliver Anderson, President & CEO of Anderson Publishing, Ltd., has announced the appointment of Dr. Erin Simon Schwartz as the new Editor-in-Chief of Applied Radiology. Dr. Schwartz is a Pediatric Neuroradiologist and Medical Director of the Lurie Family Foundations' Magnetoencephalography Imaging Center in the… Read More
Jisc appoints Liam Earney as new executive director to lead Jisc’s library, discovery and open access service portfolio - July 11, 2019
Jisc has announced the appointment of Liam Earney as executive director for digital resources. Liam will lead on a portfolio of services containing licensing, library, content, discovery and open access as well as Jisc’s provision of the UK Data Service, effective August 1. Liam will… Read More
New Zealand-based Lincoln University partners with Figshare to launch institutional research data repository - July 10, 2019
Lincoln University is launching its institutional research data repository, Data@Lincoln, powered by Figshare and available on a custom domain at https://data.lincoln.ac.nz. Among the initial datasets in Data@Lincoln is a collection of weather data recorded at Lincoln University from 1960 - 2011.… Read More
Stanford University Press Digital Publishing Initiative receives $1.15 million to implement phase 2 of the program - July 10, 2019
A proposal to continue the development of a digital publishing initiative at Stanford University has been awarded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Modeling how humanistic and social science research is presented and disseminated online, the Stanford University Press initiative is rethinking… Read More
