Kudos Pro to support early career researchers at Nanyang Technological University
November 19, 2019 – Kudos Pro, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact through strategic communications management, will be trialed for a year at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) to support early career researchers. The newly launched targeted communications …
Brill Launches Open Access Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World
November 14, 2019 – Leiden | Boston | Paderborn | Singapore | Beijing – Brill has entered into a partnership with The Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (London, UK) and the Aga Khan Museum (Toronto, Canada) …
LP Spotlight | On the limitations of recent lawsuits against Sci‐Hub, OMICS, ResearchGate, and Georgia State University
Now available in the newly published Volume 32, Issue 4 of Learned Publishing. Access to Learned Publishing is a benefit of membership in SSP. You can read the full-text online. On the limitations of recent lawsuits against Sci‐Hub, OMICS, ResearchGate, …
TSK Webinar Preview | The Future of Content Distribution: Licensing or Leakage
Don’t miss the last SSP webinar of 2019 – The Scholarly Kitchen‘s “The Future of Content Distribution: Licensing or Leakage,” on Tuesday, November 19, 2019, at 11am EST. Registration for the event remains open with a discount available for SSP …
NIH Requests Public Comment on a Draft Policy for Data Management and Sharing and Supplemental Draft Guidance
November 6, 2019 – Washington DC – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) released a Draft NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing and supplemental draft guidance for public comment. The purpose of this draft policy and supplemental draft guidance is to promote …
Webinar Recap | Are There Finally Real Use Cases for AI?
In many visionary articles, popular blogs, conference sessions, and product launches over the past few years, artificial intelligence has been pitched as the next disruptor in scholarly communications. While a number of companies have proposed new or better applications of …
Atypon Launches Manuscripts, a Collaborative Authoring Tool that Speeds Publication and Lets Researchers Integrate Code & Data
October 23, 2019 – Santa Clara, CA – Researchers continually struggle with authoring tools that aren’t built for their collaborative, data-driven projects. With Manuscripts, a free, open source web app designed specifically for scientific writing, scholarly authors can now write, …
Mellon Grant Continues Support of Digital Publications Initiative at Brown
October 28, 2019 – Providence, R.I. – Brown University has received a $775,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a second phase of its Digital Publications Initiative, launched in 2015 with an initial grant of $1.3 million. …
Copyright Clearance Center and Outsell Hold Leadership Summit on The Future of Science and Present Detailed Map of the Scientific Publishing Ecosystem
October 22, 2019 – Danvers, Mass. – Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, and Outsell, Inc., the voice of the data, information and analytics economy, hosted an interactive, strategic discussion with …
Milestone: The Geyser Marks 1st Anniversary
October 28, 2019, Westborough, MA – The Geyser – Hot Takes and Deep Thinking on the Info Economy, the subscription e-newsletter founded by Kent Anderson, past-president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, has reached its one-year mark. The Geyser is …
