Brill announces intent to acquire Ferdinand Schöningh and Wilhelm Fink - December 5, 2016
Scholarly publisher Brill has announced the intent to acquire the publishing houses Ferdinand Schöningh and Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn (Germany). Brill and the owners have come to an agreement about the acquisition of Ferdinand Schöningh GmbH & Co. KG and Wilhelm Fink GmbH & Co. Verlags-KG,… Read More
Digital Science’ final webinar of the year, The State of Open Data, scheduled for December 15 - December 5, 2016
Digital Science has announced the final webinar of the year, “The State of Open Data.” The webinar, scheduled for December 15 at 4pm BST / 11am ET, will be hosted by Community Manager, Laura Wheeler. Those unable to tune in live can still register, and… Read More
UK Access Management Federation celebrates a decade of success with the launch of self-service portal - December 5, 2016
A decade after the UK Access Management Federation was launched, Jisc will now be piloting the option of a self-service portal, for all service providers, schools, further, and higher education, which will also be free to use. The portal will allow system administrators to make changes… Read More
InTechOpen authors among top 1% in 2016 Highly Cited Researchers list - December 5, 2016
InTech's online repository, InTechOpen, has announced that 33 of its authors featured in the 2016 Highly Cited Researchers list, recently published by Clarivate Analytics, formerly the IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters. The list includes some of world’s most influential scientific minds. All 33… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - December 5, 2016
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Charlie Rapple (Institutional Conservatism in Scholarly Communications: Thoughts from UKSG’s One-day Conference); Mike Taylor (Reproducibility: a Cinderella Problem); Andy Tattersall (Working with the media can be beneficial but linking to and citing your research should be compulsory); Byron Russell (Aggregators… Read More
SAGE Publishing releases second edition of The SAGE Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology - December 2, 2016
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has released the second edition of The SAGE Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology with approximately 200 new entries on the psychological principles behind the ways people do tasks, behave, and interact with others at work. Released nearly 10 years after the… Read More
