Delta Think launches new education practice, announces organisational changes - May 14, 2020
Delta Think, a consulting and advisory firm focused on innovation and growth in scholarly communications, has announced two organisational changes to help serve the needs of the community in the current environment. Delta Think is launching a new Education Practice, headed by Partner Bonnie Gruber.… Read More
SAGE Publishing launches new SAGE Video collection in Nursing - May 13, 2020
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced the launch of a new SAGE Video collection in Nursing to help students develop career-building skills and techniques. The over 75 hours of video foster clinical skills and teach nursing students to better understand and care… Read More
RSNA publishes COVID-19 radiology surge and post-surge preparedness guidance - May 12, 2020
The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) COVID-19 Task Force has published new documents on COVID-19 surge preparedness and post-COVID-19 preparedness for radiology departments. Communities and hospitals across the country are either already experiencing or soon expecting large surges of patients with COVID-19, which will stretch… Read More
Silverchair and University of California Press launch next generation journals hosting platform - May 12, 2020
Silverchair and University of California Press (UC Press) have announced the launch of UC Press’ over 110,000 articles in more than 6000 journal issues on the Silverchair Platform. As one of the six largest university presses in the United States, and the… Read More
Research Square launches new blog as educational resource for researchers - May 8, 2020
Research Square is launching a blog as an educational resource for researchers. The blog will feature articles about emerging trends in research communications such as preprints, badges, and video summaries. With the success of its multidisciplinary preprint platform, which now hosts over 20,000 preprints, Research… Read More
Mobility Data Collaborative publishes best practices for data terminology and governance - May 8, 2020
The Mobility Data Collaborative (Collaborative), a multi-sector forum of mobility partners, has released two best practices – a glossary of standardised terms and metrics as well as guidelines for privacy-focused data governance and contracting. The collective effort by shared mobility operators, data aggregators, public agencies, academia,… Read More
HighWire launches new hosting platform for Annals of Family Medicine - May 6, 2020
Scholarly publishing technology provider HighWire has launched a new, modern hosting platform for the Annals of Family Medicine, published as a collaborative effort between the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), the Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM),… Read More
NISO announces draft recommended practice for Reproducibility Badging and Definitions - May 6, 2020
The National Information Standards Organisation (NISO) is accepting comments, through June 18, 2020, from the information community on the draft recommended practice, Reproducibility Badging and Definitions. Following on the landmark U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) report, Read More
EDP Sciences journals now on Researcher making discoverability of content easier - May 6, 2020
EDP Sciences has announced its publication of nearly fifty journals on the Researcher platform. These journals join the existing collection of over 16,000 journals from a number of publishers. The EDP Sciences journals included on the platform include Astronomy and Astrophysics, Parasite, and ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling… Read More
Androgens: Clinical Research and Therapeutics, new OA peer-reviewed journal scheduled for launch in 2020 - May 5, 2020
Androgens: Clinical Research and Therapeutics, a new peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to testosterone and other androgens, is now accepting submissions for publication in 2020. The journal aims to publish the highest-quality peer-reviewed articles from all disciplines of medicine, bringing together the numerous areas of testosterone and other androgens clinical… Read More
