Dear Subscribers - December 31, 2018
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on Wednesday, Jan 2nd. We will resume our newsletter service on Thursday, Jan 3, 2019. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the December 31st issue. We take this opportunity to wish… Read More
SPARC applauds Congressional passage of the OPEN Government Data Act - December 27, 2018
SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, has applauded Congressional passage of the Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act. The bill, which is included as Title II of the broader Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, requires federal agencies to publish government data… Read More
US federal government shutdown disappoints American Chemical Society - December 27, 2018
The American Chemical Society (ACS) is disappointed that the administration and Congress were unable to come to a bipartisan agreement on a funding bill for 2019, forcing a partial shutdown of government operations. ACS has called on both parties to set aside partisan differences and work… Read More
Global production of scientific papers hit an all-time high in 2018 with emerging economies rising fastest - December 27, 2018
Emerging economies showed some of the largest increases in research output in 2018, according to estimates from the publishing-services company Clarivate Analytics. Egypt and Pakistan topped the list in percentage terms, with rises of 21 percent and 15.9 percent, respectively. China's publications rose by about… Read More
Swiss National Science Foundation signs new Lead Agency agreement with Poland National Science Centre - December 27, 2018
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has signed a Lead Agency agreement with the funding organisation of Poland, the National Science Centre (NCN), to simplify collaboration with Polish researchers. Under the Lead Agency process, a joint application by researchers in Switzerland and Poland can be… Read More
Springer Nature announces OA agreement with Electronic Information Service National Programme - December 24, 2018
Springer Nature and the Hungarian Academic Consortium (EISZ) have announced an agreement that combines reading access and open access (OA) publishing in one single framework. Effective from January 2019, researchers from the participating consortium institutions will gain access to over 2,000 Springer journals and will have… Read More
