Karger Publishers and BenchSci partnership to help scientists find the right products for their experiments - May 7, 2018
Medical and scientific publishing company Karger Publishers has announced a partnership with BenchSci, a life science machine learning startup, to help scientists find biological product data included in scientific articles faster. The partnership between Karger Publishers and BenchSci will address a common challenge in biomedical research.… Read More
Oxford University Press to publish Integrative Biology - May 7, 2018
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) and the Royal Society of Chemistry have announced the transfer of the journal Integrative Biology from the Royal Society of Chemistry to OUP. Integrative Biology, currently in its 10th volume, is a multi- and inter-disciplinary… Read More
California Precision Medicine Consortium joins NIH to launch All of Us Research Program - May 7, 2018
The 'All of Us' Research Program officially opened for enrollment on May 6, 2018. Led by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), All of Us is an unprecedented effort to gather genetic, biological, environmental, health and lifestyle data from 1 million or more volunteer participants living… Read More
Macmillan Learning, Intellus Learning, and OhioLINK partner to provide students with affordable materials and insights - May 7, 2018
Macmillan Learning, a premier educational solutions and insights provider, and OhioLINK, a consortium of 120 academic libraries distributed among 91 Ohio colleges and universities, have announced a strategic offering designed to make course materials more affordable. This multi-pronged approach includes a textbook pricing agreement and Intellus… Read More
Deadline for Library Assessment Conference 2018 call for proposals extended to May 11 - May 7, 2018
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the University of Washington Libraries, and the Conference Steering Committee have extended the deadline for submitting paper and poster proposals for the 2018 Library Assessment Conference to May 11, 2018. The seventh biennial Library Assessment Conference will be held… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - May 7, 2018
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Dr Dina Balabanova and Jamie Lundine (How does gender influence the academic publishing process?); Michel Hockx (Journals censorship is not bowdlerisation); George Helffrich (Peer Review's Psychological Potholes); Rick Anderson (Is Copyright Piracy Morally Wrong or Merely Illegal? The Malum Prohibitum/Malum… Read More
