Initiative for Open Abstracts calls for unrestricted availability of abstracts to boost discovery of research - September 24, 2020
The Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) calls on all scholarly publishers to open the abstracts of their publications, and specifically to distribute them through Crossref, in order to facilitate large-scale access and promote discovery of critical research. I4OA - a collaboration between… Read More
ASM centralises ethics efforts in new portal - September 22, 2020
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has launched a new, centralised ethics portal. The ethics portal will communicate to and educate ASM members on ASM’s ethics policies and will streamline the way ethical concerns are handled. The new portal seeks to ensure… Read More
CARL releases final version of the Competencies for Librarians in Canadian Research Libraries - September 21, 2020
Reporting to the Canadian Association of Research Libraries’ (CARL) Strengthening Capacity Committee, the CARL Competencies Working Group (CWG) was struck in the summer of 2017 to refresh the 2010 publication, ‘Core Competencies for 21st Century CARL Librarians.’ The process has been highly consultative – with… Read More
CAST releases new paper, The Importance of Communicating Empirically Based Science for Society - September 21, 2020
The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) has released a new paper, 'The Importance of Communicating Empirically Based Science for Society'. The commentary paper is now available to download for free on CAST’s website. The paper discusses the crucial factors of… Read More
BioOne adds Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management as new subscribed title to BioOne Complete for 2021 - September 18, 2020
Non-profit scientific publisher BioOne has announced the addition of Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management, the flagship journal of the Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management Society and published by Michigan State University Press, as a new subscribed title to Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry launches new Text and Data Mining solution - September 17, 2020
The Royal Society of Chemistry has launched its new Text and Data Mining (TDM) solution, making its full collection of research journals available to companies for AI and machine learning applications. With the volume of published research available growing hourly, access… Read More
Oxford University Press launches third title in new Oxford Open series, Oxford Open Climate Change - September 10, 2020
Oxford University Press (OUP) has launched the third title in its pioneering new open access journal series with Oxford Open Climate Change. Oxford Open Climate Change is a wide-reaching interdisciplinary journal that aims to cover all aspects of climate change. It… Read More
Karger Publishers launches Kompass Nutrition & Dietetics - September 10, 2020
What are the effects of elevated blood sugar on the course of a Covid-19 infection? How has the quarantine changed the eating habits of society? Kompass Nutrition & Dietetics, a new Karger publication, answers these and many other questions. The first issue of the new Kompass… Read More
Clarivate unveils online Innovation Exchange to advance research, development and commercialization activities - September 9, 2020
Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, has announced the launch of its online Innovation Exchange to enable life science, healthcare and research professionals to gain access to innovative software and data… Read More
AIP Publishing unveils first digital book collection - September 4, 2020
AIP Publishing, a leading not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has announced the launch of its first digital book collection. The first titles in the collection are now available online on Scitation.org, where the books are fully integrated with AIP Publishing’s journal portfolio. AIP… Read More
