Call for panel session proposals for the 2024 OASPA Conference - March 18, 2024
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) has announced the call for panel session proposals for its 2024 annual conference. Scheduled to take place from September 16-18 at the Altis Grand Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal, this year's conference marks a significant return to in-person gatherings after a… Read More
STM applauds European Parliament’s approval of landmark EU AI Act - March 18, 2024
In a historic move towards the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), the European Parliament has approved the final version of the Artificial Intelligence Act, marking a significant milestone in the governance of AI technologies. This legislation, a first of its kind, aims to establish comprehensive regulations governing the development and… Read More
Open Access as a means to equity: Progress, challenges, and the continued role for the BOAI - March 18, 2024
In a transformative journey spanning two decades, the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) has spearheaded the global movement towards Open Access (OA), envisioning a world where scholarly research is freely accessible to all. As the BOAI commemorates the second anniversary of its BOAI20 Recommendations, it reflects on… Read More
ASM joins UN Sustainable Development Goals Publishers Compact - March 18, 2024
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has signed on to the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Publishers Compact and has joined the growing list of publishers who have committed to championing global sustainability. Signatories aspire to accelerate sustainable solutions to the world’s… Read More
Bentham Science journals, Mini-Reviews in Organic Chemistry and Recent Patents on Biotechnology, now indexed in EI Compendex - March 18, 2024
Bentham Science has announced that its journals, Mini-Reviews in Organic Chemistry and Recent Patents on Biotechnology have been accepted for indexing in EI Compendex. This engineering database is comprehensive and interdisciplinary, encompassing thousands of journals across a range of disciplines. The inclusion of these journals in EI… Read More
IJJ Aalbersberg to step down as STM committee chair - March 15, 2024
Following more than a decade of leadership within STM, most recently as chair of the Standards and Technology Committee (STeC), IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg will step down from the position, in connection with his departure from Elsevier. IJsbrand Jan has been one of the… Read More
