OA Switchboard provides back office services - November 6, 2020
The OA Switchboard initiative, a not-for-profit collaboration between funders, institutions and publishers, is providing essential infrastructure, standards and back office services to achieve a breakthrough in the transformation of the market such that Open Access is supported as the predominant model of publication. OASPA has been… Read More
Kinokuniya becomes sales agent of open research publishing platform F1000Research - November 6, 2020
Kinokuniya Company Ltd. has signed an agreement with Taylor & Francis Group, by which Kinokuniya becomes the exclusive sales agent of the world’s first open research publishing platform ‘F1000Research’ operated by F1000 Research Ltd, part of Taylor & Francis Group, for academic… Read More
SynOpen appoints Dr Chada Raji Reddy as associate editor - November 6, 2020
SynOpen has appointed Dr Chada Raji Reddy of the CSIR – Indian Institute of Chemical Technology as an associate editor, with immediate effect. Published by Georg Thieme Verlag, SynOpen offers chemists worldwide current research results in chemical synthesis in full paper and letter format. The open… Read More
Evert Verhagen appointed as new Editor-in-Chief for BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine - November 6, 2020
Evert Verhagen, a human movement scientist and epidemiologist, has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, one of more than 70 specialist journals published by BMJ. Verhagen will take up his post in January 2021, succeeding Emmanuel Stamatakis who… Read More
Call for Proposals: HathiTrust Research Centre funded collaborations for scholarship on marginalised textual communities - November 6, 2020
The HathiTrust Research Centre (HTRC) requests proposals for a special funded round of its Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) program, in support of scholarship on historically marginalised textual communities. With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, HTRC’s ‘Scholar-Curated Worksets for Analysis, Reuse… Read More
NISO Plus 2021 registration is open now - November 5, 2020
NISO Plus 2021, to be held on February 22-25, 2021, is now officially open for business. Registration can be made from November 4, 2020 to January 8, 2021. NISO is fixing rates affordable for everyone — from $30 (for early career,… Read More