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10 June 2019

Despite one-year delay Plan S may still be too rushed, warn researchers The funders behind Plan S – an ambitious set of policies that aims to speed up the transition to open access publishing – recently released updated guidelines that delay implementing the plan for a year and provide more clarity on transformative publishing agreements. The revisions have attracted mixed reactions from chemists, some of whom welcome the clarity while others worry it will harm their careers. Some UK researchers voiced concerns about how Plan S would affect them at a recent panel discussion hosted by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Registrations now open for 6:AM Altmetrics Conference, CFP deadline June 14 Registration for the 6:AM Altmetrics Conference is now open. Scheduled to be held in Stirling, Scotland on the 9th and 10th of October, the theme for this year is 'Bridging Worlds', with a focus on connecting communities, cultures and topics that stretch beyond altmetrics alone. Delegates from across the scholarly ecosystem are invited to come together to explore ideas, hear practical case studies and participate in engaging discussions on altmetrics, scholarly communication, research impact, networks and collaboration, data science and research policy. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Virginia Tech Publishing launches first peer-reviewed book under its own imprint Virginia Tech Publishing, Virginia Tech's scholarly publishing hub housed in the University Libraries, recently launched "Viral Networks: Connecting Digital Humanities and Medical History," the first peer-reviewed book to be released solely under the Virginia Tech Publishing imprint. Edited by E. Thomas Ewing, a professor of history, and Katherine Randall, a doctoral candidate in rhetoric and writing, the book is the culmination of the 2018 Viral Networks workshop. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Engineering professor Ali Memari named editor-in-chief of the Journal of Architectural Engineering Ali Memari, professor of civil and architectural engineering, Bernard and Henrietta Hankin Chair in Residential Building Construction, and director of the Pennsylvania Housing Research Center at Penn State, was recently named the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Architectural Engineering (JAE), produced by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Memari will serve as the editor-in-chief for a three-year period with an option to renew. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Prof. Ellen Goldring appointed editor-in-chief of the American Educational Research Journal Vanderbilt University professor Ellen Goldring has been appointed editor-in-chief of the American Educational Research Association's flagship publication, the American Educational Research Journal. She will head the editorial team for AERJ's 2020–22 volume years. Goldring is Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Leadership, Policy and Organizations at Vanderbilt's Peabody College of education and human development. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Latest edition of Blogspeak now online The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: David Crotty (Leaving Behind the Outrage Economy); Jens P. Goetze and Jens F. Rehfeld (Opinion: Stop Gaming Peer Review); Phill Jones (Why Is It So Hard to Solve Problems with Technology?); David Nicholas (How will the emerging generation of scholars transform scholarly communication?); and argue Shelley Stall and colleagues (Make scientific data FAIR). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here.   Brought to you by Scope e-Knowledge Center, a trusted global partner for digital content transformation solutions - Abstracting & Indexing (A&I), Knowledge Modeling (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies), and Metadata Enrichment & Entity Extraction.   Do you have relevant news articles to share with us? Click here to send a press release   You are receiving this email newsletter as part of your Knowledgespeak membership. You can unsubscribe instantly from any of our email newsletters by clicking here.

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