2018 USTR Notorious Markets List includes problematic sites named by publishers - April 29, 2019
The Association of American Publishers has welcomed the announcement by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) of the 2018 Special 301 Out-of-Cycle Report of Notorious Markets. The inclusion of problematic online and physical markets on the list encourages the market operators or responsible authorities… Read More
Kudos and Good for Kids announce launch of first Kudos Pro project profile - April 29, 2019
Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact, and Good for Kids, a healthy eating and activity program led by the New South Wales Government’s Hunter New England Population Health, have announced the launch of the first Kudos Pro ‘project profile’. The Physical Activity for Everyone… Read More
Wiley’s new open research Next journals now open for submissions - April 23, 2019
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Inc. is now inviting original research articles for two newly formed open access journals, Genetics & Genomics Next and Neuroscience Next. The journals are led by esteemed Editors-in-Chief who will publish the highest quality, most impactful and groundbreaking research while… Read More
CSHL Press releases Next-Generation Sequencing in Medicine - April 23, 2019
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) has announced the release of Next-Generation Sequencing in Medicine, available on its website in hardcover and ebook formats. Next-generation sequencing technologies have the capacity to generate large numbers of DNA sequence reads at relatively high speed and low cost.… Read More
Aries Systems offers author and reviewer with time saving transfer solutions - April 22, 2019
When Author manuscripts are rejected by a journal, they often must repeat the submission process on one or more subsequent journals. Reviewers face the issue of repeating reviews for the same content if selected again. Both contribute to a great loss of time and effort, and can leave Authors and… Read More
ARL white paper on Wikidata brings to light use of open knowledge in scholarly communication, special collections - April 19, 2019
In a new Association of Research Libraries (ARL) white paper, a task force of expert Wikidata users recommend a variety of ways for librarians to use the open knowledge base in advancing global discovery of their collections, faculty, and institutions. Librarians are using Wikidata’s structured… Read More
NISO seeks comments on new Recommended Practice draft for improved access to institutionally-provided information resources - April 18, 2019
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) seeks comments on a new Recommended Practice draft for improved access to institutionally-provided information resources. This document details the findings from the Resource Access for the 21st Century (RA21) initiative and provides recommendations for using federated identity as an access… Read More
SAGE Publishing partners with Early Childhood Australia to publish the Australasian Journal of Early Childhood - April 17, 2019
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has partnered with Early Childhood Australia (ECA) to publish the Australasian Journal of Early Childhood (AJEC). AJEC claims to be Australasia’s foremost scholarly journal and the world’s longest-running major journal within the early childhood sector. Published quarterly, AJEC offers research-based articles… Read More
Chinese Chemical Society launches its flagship journal – CCS Chemistry - April 16, 2019
The Chinese Chemical Society (CCS) has announced the launch of its flagship journal, CCS Chemistry, dedicated to serving the global chemistry community. This is the first journal fully owned and published by CCS. The journal aims to provide chemists with access to a highly-selective collection of… Read More
NISO publishes update to Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) standard 1.2 - April 16, 2019
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the formal publication of a new update to the JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite standard. The purpose of JATS is to define a suite of XML elements and attributes describing the content of metadata and journal articles while… Read More
