Donald Keith Roper named associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology - August 21, 2017
Donald Keith Roper, associate professor of chemical engineering, has been named associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology. IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organisation for the advancement of technology. According to IEEE's website, Transactions on Nanotechnology is devoted to the publication of manuscripts… Read More
ProQuest appoints Michael Rai as General Manager, Corporate Markets - August 18, 2017
ProQuest has appointed Michael Rai as the new General Manager, Corporate Markets, overseeing the ProQuest Dialog and Pi2™ products as well as sales of ProQuest content and book solutions to the company's corporate customers. ProQuest has been developing and investing in corporate solutions since it… Read More
Nicole Mitchell to lead AAUP as President - August 18, 2017
Nicole Mitchell, Director of the University of Washington Press, recently began her one-year term as President of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP). Mitchell assumed the role at AAUP 2017, the Association's annual meeting in Austin, Texas. She is preceded by Darrin Pratt, Director of… Read More
American Psychological Association appoints David Nygren as senior director, marketing and branding - August 16, 2017
The American Psychological Association has appointed David Nygren as senior director, marketing and branding, a new position responsible for leading marketing, community engagement and business development for APA Publishing. In this post, Nygren will oversee marketing and branding initiatives for APA's premier publishing programs, including PsycINFO,… Read More
Frontiers in Neurology appoints Dr. Irene Litvan as new Field Chief Editor - August 15, 2017
Frontiers in Neurology has announced the appointment of Dr. Irene Litvan as the new Field Chief Editor. Dr. Litvan is the Director of the Parkinson & Other Movement Disorders Center at the University of California, San Diego, the Director of the National Parkinson Foundation Center of… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. appoints Dr. Sergi Ferré as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Caffeine Research - August 14, 2017
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers has announced the appointment of Dr. Sergi Ferré as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Caffeine Research which will be retitled to Journal of Caffeine and Adenosine Research starting January 1, 2018. Dr. Sergi Ferré serves as a senior investigator and chief of… Read More
Oxford University Press appoints David Clark as new Managing Director for its Academic Division - August 10, 2017
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has appointed David Clark, Senior Vice President for Health and Medical Sciences at Elsevier, as the new Managing Director of its Academic Division. David will succeed the outgoing Managing Director, Tim Barton, who leaves OUP in September after 25 years.… Read More
Portico’s director of publisher relations, Stephanie Orphan, elected to OASPA board - August 10, 2017
Digital preservation service Portico has announced that its director of publisher relations, Stephanie Orphan, has been elected by the members of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) to serve on the board of directors for a term of three years. … Read More
Clarivate Analytics board member Annette Thomas to lead Scientific and Academic Research business - August 9, 2017
Clarivate Analytics, the global provider of trusted insights and analytics to enable the research ecosystem to accelerate discovery, has announced that Annette Thomas, previously appointed to the Clarivate board, will join the company in September as Chief Executive Officer of its Scientific and Academic Research division,… Read More
John Greivenkamp of Arizona University elected to SPIE presidential chain - August 9, 2017
SPIE Fellow John Greivenkamp, professor of optical science and ophthalmology at the College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, has been elected to serve as the 2018 Vice President of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. With his election, Greivenkamp joins the SPIE presidential… Read More
