Registration deadline for scholarly communication workshop on strategic skills extended - November 19, 2012
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication have announced that the early-bird registration deadline has been extended for the ARL-ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication (ISC) workshop, 'Increasing the Effectiveness of Your Scholarly Communication Program: Strategic Skills for Success,' to be… Read More
AAUP names Peter M. Berkery, Jr. as incoming Executive Director - November 19, 2012
The Board of Directors of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has named Peter M. Berkery, Jr., the next Executive Director of the Association, starting March 1, 2013. Berkery comes to AAUP from Oxford University Press, where he has served for the last 4… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - November 19, 2012
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Phil Davis (Is the Relationship Between Journal Impact Factors and Article Citations Growing Weaker?); Paul Jump (Is RCUK's open-access cash a 'reckless' road to ruin?); Mark Reed (8 steps to making your research punch above its weight); Joe Wikert (Free… Read More
Springer and Science Press to jointly publish Journal of Arid Land - November 16, 2012
STM publisher Springer has announced that it will publish the Journal of Arid Land as of January 2013. The journal is the official publication of the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The quarterly peer-reviewed journal joins Springer's… Read More
Wiley launches StatisticsViews.com, a comprehensive website for all users of statistics - November 16, 2012
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced the launch of StatisticsViews.com. The new website has been created for professional statisticians, analysts, students, and any user of statistics in interdisciplinary subjects as the first place to go when looking for any information related to statistical… Read More
Ten of Taiwan’s most innovative companies and academic institutions honoured during inaugural ‘Thomson Reuters Taiwan Innovation Awards 2012’ - November 16, 2012
Ten of Taiwan's most innovative companies and academic institutions were recently honoured at an award presentation during the inaugural 'Thomson Reuters Taiwan Innovation Awards 2012'. This is the first time that the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters is organising the Awards to recognize… Read More
