NISO launches new project, Recommended Practices Around Content Platform Migrations - January 18, 2019
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Voting Members have approved a new project, Recommended Practices Around Content Platform Migrations, to provide a standard process and recommendations to all parties dealing with online content platforms, which would improve communication between stakeholders before, during, and after migration. NISO… Read More
Association of American Publishers announces 2019 PROSE Awards finalists - January 18, 2019
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has unveiled 165 finalists across 49 subject categories for the 2019 PROSE Awards honouring scholarly works published in 2018. Since 1976, the Association of American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence [PROSE Awards] have recognised publishers who produce books,… Read More
Copyright Clearance Center achieves ISO 27001 ISMS certification - January 18, 2019
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has achieved certification to the ISO 27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS) from DNV GL, a global quality assurance and risk management company. ISO 27001 is an internationally acknowledged management… Read More
Holiday Notice - January 18, 2019
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on January 21, 2019 on account of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. We will resume our newsletter service on Tuesday, January 22, 2019. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the January… Read More
AMRI announces 5-year agreement with CAS for SciFinder - January 17, 2019
CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), has announced that AMRI, a global life sciences contract research, development and manufacturing organisation with locations in North America, Europe and Asia, has signed a 5-year agreement for SciFinder®. This investment ensures that all AMRI researchers globally… Read More
Cambridge University Press launches Cambridge Elements, a new model for scholarly publishing - January 17, 2019
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has launched a new publishing model to provide an outlet for world-class research and writing that sits outside the traditional formats of book or journal article. Work of between 50-120 pages will be published digitally and through print-on-demand as ‘Cambridge… Read More
