NISO launches new project, Recommended Practices Around Content Platform Migrations - January 18, 2019
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Voting Members have approved a new project, Recommended Practices Around Content Platform Migrations, to provide a standard process and recommendations to all parties dealing with online content platforms, which would improve communication between stakeholders before, during, and after migration. NISO… Read More
Cambridge University Press launches Cambridge Elements, a new model for scholarly publishing - January 17, 2019
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has launched a new publishing model to provide an outlet for world-class research and writing that sits outside the traditional formats of book or journal article. Work of between 50-120 pages will be published digitally and through print-on-demand as ‘Cambridge… Read More
NISO Voting Members approve project to develop recommended practice for a compatible taxonomy, definitions, and recognition badging scheme - January 16, 2019
The National Information Standard Organization (NISO) Voting Members have approved a project to develop a recommended practice pertaining to reproducibility in the computational and computing sciences. This work will examine existing taxonomies and badging schemes to define various levels of reproducibility and communicate these in the… Read More
Submissions for PeerJ’s five new chemistry journals are now open - January 16, 2019
Open access publisher PeerJ has announced that submissions are now open for five new journals dedicated to the Chemical Sciences. Researchers can now submit manuscripts to PeerJ, for peer review, to the journals PeerJ Physical Chemistry, PeerJ Organic Chemistry, PeerJ Inorganic Chemistry, PeerJ Analytical Chemistry, and… Read More
Springer Nature and The Open University partner to launch Computer Science Ontology (CSO) - January 10, 2019
Research publisher Springer Nature and the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) of The Open University have partnered to provide a comprehensive Computer Science Ontology (CSO) to a broad range of communities engaged with scholarly data. CSO can be accessed free of charge through the CSO Portal, a… Read More
Figshare now available on custom domains - January 9, 2019
Figshare, an online digital repository for academic research, has announced that the customers of 'Figshare for Institutions' and 'Figshare for Publishers' will now be able to host content on a custom domain. Figshare portals have historically lived on a Figshare subdomain eg. university.figshare.com but now can… Read More
Thieme Chemistry deposits about 700,000 distinct chemical structures to PubChem - January 8, 2019
Thieme Chemistry, a part of the Thieme Group, has provided approximately 700,000 distinct structures to PubChem, the open chemistry database at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In addition to the structural information, the upload includes more than 1,200,000 distinct links from chemicals to the Thieme… Read More
National Library of Medicine launches VSAC intensional definition functionality - January 7, 2019
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Value Set Authority Center (VSAC), with support from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), has announced the launch of intensional value set definition functionality in the VSAC Authoring Tool. Through the VSAC Authoring user interface, value set… Read More
Call for submissions open for JMIR’s special issue - January 7, 2019
The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) is inviting submissions for a special issue of the journal that will be dedicated to blockchain for health care and biomedical science. Health care is known to suffer from siloed and fragmented data, delayed clinical communications, and disparate… Read More
BioOne Complete launches on new platform powered by non-profit collaboration with SPIE - January 3, 2019
BioOne, the non-profit publisher of more than 200 journals from 150 scientific societies and independent presses, has launched a new website for its content aggregation, BioOne Complete. Powered by a non-profit collaboration with SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, the new site leverages SPIE's… Read More
