New hires bolster digital transformation at ACS Publications - March 7, 2024
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that it is continuing to invest in digital transformation and innovation to ensure it can best serve the scientific community. In February 2024, ACS Publications welcomed two new technology and product leaders: Norma Cernadas as… Read More
Elsevier and Iktos partner to deliver an AI-driven synthetic chemistry platform - March 6, 2024
Elsevier, a global leader in information and data analytics, has signed a multi-year agreement with Iktos, a company specializing in artificial intelligence for new drug discovery. The partnership will strengthen Elsevier's flagship chemistry solution, Reaxys, by combining the company’s high-quality chemistry data… Read More
Taylor & Francis and Vanderbilt University’s Heard Libraries announce three-year transformative agreement - March 6, 2024
Vanderbilt University’s Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries and Taylor & Francis, a leading academic publisher, have signed a new three-year read-and-publish agreement that expands the breadth of journals available to Vanderbilt researchers and enhances the potential reach and impact of their published work. Under… Read More
Frontiers joins UNITED2ACT to combat paper mills in scholarly publishing - March 6, 2024
As fraudulent behavior becomes more sophisticated, publishers confront a rising tide of fake articles, forged authorship, fabricated images, and coordinated efforts to manipulate the peer review process. This activity is an industry-wide phenomenon that affects all publishers and has become the most common cause for article retractions. UNITED2ACT is a… Read More
CERN and OAPEN Foundation announce collaboration agreement to promote open access to books - March 6, 2024
CERN and the not-for-profit organization OAPEN Foundation have announced a further expansion of their collaboration to jointly promote open access to books. Since 2021, CERN and the OAPEN Foundation have collaborated to disseminate books that are made available in open access through SCOAP3… Read More
Submissions for the 2024 John Cotton Dana Awards are now open - March 6, 2024
The American Library Association (ALA) is now accepting submissions for the 2024 John Cotton Dana Award (JCD). The John Cotton Dana Award is one of the most prestigious awards given to up to eight libraries. The $10,000 awards will be provided by the H.W.… Read More
