Max Planck Digital Library and F1000 in deal to cover cost for MPDL affiliated authors to publish in F1000Research - December 4, 2018
An agreement between F1000 and the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) will cover the cost for Max Planck Society-affiliated authors to publish on F1000Research, making it free for the authors. The F1000Research publishing model has been designed to remove unnecessary barriers… Read More
John Adams re-elected chair of the American Chemical Society’s board of directors - December 4, 2018
Dr. John E. Adams has been re-elected chair of the board of directors of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Adams will begin another one-year term on January 1, 2019. As chair of the board, Adams will preside over board and executive committee meetings, oversee the… Read More
eLife to develop SwipesForScience to speed up research - December 4, 2018
eLife is collaborating with participants from its inaugural Innovation Sprint earlier this year to develop SwipesForScience, a templating service that lets researchers quickly create mobile-friendly games that allow players to help with analysing large amounts of research data. The prototype of SwipesForScience, developed at the… Read More
Chiba University launches new academic resource collection, c-arc - December 4, 2018
Chiba University has launched a new academic resource collection named 'Chiba University Academic Resource Collections (c-arc)' which makes all content published and provided by Chiba University Libraries widely available on the web. This website is a new infrastructure to realise 'Digital Scholarship,' which promotes using digital… Read More
ChemRxiv announces Direct Journal Transfer to streamline submission of research for journal peer review - December 3, 2018
ChemRxiv, a chemistry preprint server for the global chemistry community, has announced Direct Journal Transfer, a new feature that will help authors submit their posted preprints to established journals for editorial consideration and peer review. This feature, which is now available on the ChemRxiv website, currently… Read More
Cambridge University Press signs major OA deal with Bibsam - December 3, 2018
Academic Publisher Cambridge University Press has reached a major open access deal with higher education and research institutions in Sweden. The three-year 'read and publish' deal has been agreed with Bibsam, a consortium of 85 higher education and research institutions, led by the National Library… Read More
