Elsevier launches PracticeUpdate Bladder Cancer Centre of Excellence - September 3, 2020
Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, has announced that it has launched its newest PracticeUpdate Centre of Excellence (CoE) focused on bladder cancer and curated by a world-renowned editorial and advisory board. The Bladder Cancer CoE, an important… Read More
PLOS Special Collection launch: Populations HRSA serves - September 3, 2020
The open-access journals PLOS ONE and PLOS Medicine have launched a Special Collection of manuscripts centred around the healthcare provided by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the primary U.S. federal agency for improving healthcare in underserved… Read More
Community-driven OA geoscience journal now accepting research from all areas of earth, planetary, and environmental sciences - September 3, 2020
GeoScienceWorld (GSW) has announced that its community-driven geoscience journal, Lithosphere, has published its first articles covering research in all areas of earth, planetary, and environmental sciences. Lithosphere provides a unique publishing choice for authors in the geoscience community, achieved through an alliance between GSW and leading… Read More
AAAS announces new Science Partner Journal, Space: Science & Technology - August 31, 2020
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced the launch of new Science Partner Journal, Space: Science & Technology, published in affiliation with the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT). BIT cooperates with China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) which… Read More
Wolters Kluwer launches 5 Forces for the Future series reimagining healthcare post-COVID-19 - August 28, 2020
Wolters Kluwer, Health has launched the 5 Forces for the Future series to show a path forward in improving systemic weaknesses exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic to prepare beyond a second wave to a transformed healthcare landscape. The series highlights distinct trends catalysing extraordinary change… Read More
AMA announces open access educational modules to support physicians - August 28, 2020
Responding to the exceptional challenges and demands that strain physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic, the American Medical Association (AMA) has announced a new series of open access educational modules offering proven strategies to support the well-being of physicians during a time of acute stress. Now more… Read More
SPARC Europe launches large-scale Open Education initiative to share knowledge across countries - August 28, 2020
SPARC Europe is poised to embark on a new, two-and-a-half-year programme to grow Open Education (OE) capacity among libraries of higher education (HE) in Europe. The project will allow gaining a better understanding of the European HE library community’s needs and progress in OE, to share… Read More
SciDev.Net launches new service to offer members exclusive benefits - August 27, 2020
SciDev.Net, a leading source of reliable and authoritative news, views and analysis about science and technology for global development, is launching a new service offering members a range of exclusive benefits. Subscribers to SciDev.Net Plus will receive exclusive access to a monthly conference call with… Read More
ASCB launches new library subscription model for its peer-reviewed journal, Molecular Biology of the Cell - August 26, 2020
The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) is launching a new library subscription model for its peer-reviewed basic research journal, Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC), making it the first research journal to experiment with Subscribe to Open (S2O). With S2O, all MBoC readers may have… Read More
eLife launches Executable Research Articles for publishing computationally reproducible results - August 24, 2020
eLife has announced the launch of Executable Research Articles (ERAs), allowing authors to post a computationally reproducible version of their published paper in the open-access journal. eLife invests in open-source technology innovation to improve online tools for sharing, using and interacting with new results. The organisation… Read More
