AAAS announces new Science Partner Journal – Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research - December 16, 2021
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced the launch of new Science Partner Journal, Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research (OLAR), published in affiliation with Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai). OLAR aims to serve the scientific community and promote technological innovation… Read More
NISO Plus 2022 preliminary program announced - December 16, 2021
The NISO Plus conference, scheduled for February 15-17, 2022, has announced its preliminary program. More details will be added in the coming days and weeks. Early Bird registration is available through January 7, 2022, and includes even larger discounts for NISO members, groups of… Read More
Optica Publishing Group appoints new Editors-in-Chief for three journals - December 16, 2021
Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA) has announced the appointment of Andrea Alù, Olga Korotkova, and Ruikang Wang as the new editors-in-chief of Optical Materials Express, Journal of the Optical Society of America A (JOSA A), and Biomedical Optics Express respectively. Each of the Editors-in-Chief will begin their… Read More
Kamran Abbasi appointed editor in chief of The BMJ - December 16, 2021
Kamran Abbasi has been appointed as the new editor in chief of The BMJ. He will take up the post on January 1, 2022, succeeding Fiona Godlee, who has been in the role for more than 16 years. Abbasi has been executive editor of The BMJ since… Read More
MyScienceWork to index academic journals, books, and conference series from IOP Publishing - December 16, 2021
Research management tech provider MyScienceWork (MSW) has announced a partnership with IOP Publishing to index one of the largest collections of academic journals, books and conference series in physical sciences. Effective as of December 2021, the partnership permits supplementary access to a comprehensive portfolio… Read More
Transformative deal between Springer Nature and the Egyptian Government to drive forward open research - December 15, 2021
Springer Nature, The Science, Technology and Innovation Funding Authority (STDF) and the Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB) have agreed a landmark Transformative Agreement (TA), increasing the momentum across global economies of all sizes for open access (OA) publishing and the wider move to open science and research. This… Read More