Frank Vrancken Peeters to join Springer Nature as Chief Commercial Officer - August 30, 2017
Senior publishing executive Frank Vrancken Peeters will join Springer Nature as Chief Commercial Officer on September 4th. This newly created Management Board level appointment has been established to support the future growth and strategy of the group. Frank will report in the short term to Chief… Read More
Garrett P. Kiely appointed to third term as director of University of Chicago Press - August 30, 2017
Garrett P. Kiely, a leader in academic publishing who has expanded and elevated the work of the University of Chicago Press, has been reappointed as its director. He will serve a third five-year term beginning September 1. Kiely will continue to lead the nation's largest… Read More
Prof. W. Art. Chaovalitwongse appointed department editor in healthcare journal - August 29, 2017
W. Art. Chaovalitwongse, professor and holder of the 21st Century Research Leadership Chair in Industrial Engineering, has been appointed as a department editor in the Health Informatics area of the IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering journal. IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering is an official journal of the… Read More
Pieter Duisenberg appointed new President of the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) - August 29, 2017
Pieter Duisenberg has been appointed as the new President of the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU). As of 1 October 2017, he will succeed Karl Dittrich who has led the VSNU since 2012 and who will now retire. The VSNU faces the challenge… Read More
Canadian Research Knowledge Network appoints Gloria Booth-Morrison as ORCID-CA Member Support Specialist - August 28, 2017
The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) has announced that Gloria Booth-Morrison has joined the organization as ORCID-CA Member Support Specialist, effective August 8, 2017. Gloria comes to CRKN from the University of Ottawa, an ORCID-CA member, where she worked as a Science and Engineering Librarian.… Read More
Frontiers in Chemistry names Professor Fan Zhang as new Specialty Section Chief Editor - August 28, 2017
Frontiers in Chemistry has announced the launch of a new specialty section on Nanoscience. The section will be led by Specialty Chief Editor Professor Fan Zhang, Department of Chemistry and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers and iChEM (Collaborative Innovation… Read More
Dr Michael Schatman appointed Director of Research and Network Development at Boston PainCare - August 28, 2017
Open access publisher Dove Medical Press has announced the appointment of Dr. Michael Schatman, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pain Research, as Director of Research and Network Development at Boston PainCare – an interdisciplinary pain treatment/management center based in Waltham, Massachusetts (USA). Dr. Schatman will… Read More
Emerald appoints Professor Greg Marshall as Editor-in-Chief of European Journal of Marketing - August 24, 2017
Academic publisher Emerald has announced the appointment of Professor Greg W. Marshall, Charles Harwood Professor of Marketing and Strategy, Crummer Graduate School of Business USA as the new Editor-in-Chief of European Journal of Marketing. Prof Marshall also holds an appointment as Honorary Professor of Marketing… Read More
USC Press names Richard Brown as Director - August 24, 2017
University of South Carolina Press has named Richard Brown as its new director. Brown joins Carolina from Georgetown University where he has served as Press Director since 2001. At USC Press, he will be responsible for the editorial, fiscal and marketing strategies of USC Press,… Read More
Brian Pogue named editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biomedical Optics - August 21, 2017
Brian Pogue of Dartmouth has been named editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO), beginning January 1, 2018. The journal is published by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. The Journal of Biomedical Optics publishes papers on the use of modern optical… Read More
