EMBO Press and ASAPbio partner to launch Review Commons, a pre-journal portable review platform - October 1, 2019
EMBO Press and ASAPbio have partnered to create Review Commons, a platform that peer-reviews research manuscripts in the life sciences before submission to a journal. Papers submitted to Review Commons, which will be launched in December 2019, will be assessed by… Read More
Research on Research Institute to enable more strategic, open, diverse, and inclusive research - September 30, 2019
The Wellcome Trust, the universities of Sheffield and Leiden, and Digital Science, have announced the launch of the Research on Research Institute (RoRI) – an international consortium of research funders, academic institutions, and technologists working to champion the latest approaches to research… Read More
O’Reilly announces new platform features to enhance learning experience for its users - September 23, 2019
O’Reilly, the premier source for insight-driven learning on technology and business, has announced several new platform features to enhance the learning experience for its 2.5 million users. These new capabilities include Expert Playlists, Jupyter Notebooks, and an update to its Insights API. Expert Playlists provide… Read More
SAGE Publishing launches SAGE Research Methods reference resource - September 20, 2019
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has launched SAGE Research Methods Foundations, an online reference resource on all aspects of research methods and the research process for the social sciences. The resource contains hundreds of entries written by an international roster of methods experts, such as psychologist Paul… Read More
MDPI launches new functionality giving scholars the possibility to endorse and recommend articles - September 20, 2019
Open access journals publisher MDPI has announced the release of a new functionality giving the possibility for researchers and scholars to endorse, and formally recommend articles to their colleagues. MDPI was an early signatory of the San Francisco Declaration on Research… Read More
Cambridge University Press unveils new journal to tackle problems in scholarly communication - September 19, 2019
A new journal from Cambridge University Press will take a radical new approach to both publishing and peer reviewing research. Experimental Results aims to tackle the crisis in the reproducibility of results, provide an outlet for standalone research that currently goes unpublished and to make peer… Read More
CRKN launches 2019 Journal Value Analytics tool - September 19, 2019
The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) has launched the 2019 Journal Value Analytics (JVA) tool for members. Compiled annually, the JVA tool combines pricing, subject, and usage data to evaluate CRKN-licensed journal packages and provides a broad perspective of member collections at the title level. This… Read More
BioDesign Research is fourth journal to join AAAS’s Science Partner Journal program - September 17, 2019
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced the launch of the fourth journal in its Science Partner Journal program, BioDesign Research, published in affiliation with Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU). The journal will be distributed by AAAS in association with NAU, institutions that… Read More
Journal of Biological Chemistry launches program for early-career scientists - September 17, 2019
The Journal of Biological Chemistry has launched a program designed to involve scientists at early stages of their careers in peer review. The JBC Early-Career Reviewer Board offers postdoctoral researchers and newly independent investigators a structured path for developing peer-review skills and learning about the… Read More
Loughborough University unveils new combined OA institutional and data repository powered by Figshare - September 17, 2019
Loughborough University has announced the launch of their new combined open access institutional and data repository, Loughborough University Research Repository, powered by Figshare. All institutional research outputs - from papers and theses to datasets and media - will be hosted in one place, providing a single… Read More
