BMC, Research Square and Hypothesis collaborate to promote transparency, early sharing and enable community feedback during peer review - December 10, 2018
BMC, Research Square, and Hypothesis have announced a new collaboration designed to promote transparency, early sharing, and encourage community feedback through annotation during the peer review process. In keeping with its long history in experimentation around new types… Read More
eLife appoints three new Senior Editors to its leadership team - December 10, 2018
eLife has appointed three new Senior Editors to its leadership team, supporting submissions in some of the open-access journal's growing research areas. Eduardo Franco from McGill University, Neil Ferguson from Imperial College London, and Cynthia Wolberger from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine bring expertise… Read More
Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene announces new bilingual collection, Cuba’s Agrifood System in Transition - December 10, 2018
Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, a trans-disciplinary, open-access journal, has announced Cuba's Agrifood System in Transition, a new collection of research aimed at amplifying the voices of Cuban experts and fostering exchange and dialogue on sustainable agrifood practices, in the island nation and beyond. Cuba's… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - December 10, 2018
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Chris Hayter and Marla A. Parker (Postdocs trying to transition to non-academic careers should be offered more support by their supervisors and universities); Lettie Y. Conrad (Exclusive Deals in Scholarly Discovery: How they Hurt Users and Pose Threats to Open… Read More
Funding Bodies sign open letter in support of ORCID - December 7, 2018
ORCID has announced the launch of an open letter in support of the use of ORCID identifiers (iDs) in the grant application and reporting process. Nine funding bodies around the world have signed the letter - and are inviting others to join them - to indicate… Read More
SAGE Publishing invests in Thusly to launch TagWorks crowd annotation software into academic research market - December 7, 2018
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has made a major seed investment in Thusly Inc., a technology start-up creating research tools for big data analysis of document archives. The investment is the first for SAGE as part of its SAGE Ocean initiative, and will support the launch of… Read More
