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30 September 2019

New report looks at how European funders are approaching Open policy and practices A report that reveals the Open Access and Open Science policies, incentives and practices of European funders has been released. Based on a survey conducted in late spring, the report is a first of its kind to examine what key international funding bodies (international and national funding bodies, major charities and foundations, national academics and key research performing organisations) are doing to incentivise openness to the work they help fund. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme IEEE announces call for paper submissions for new open access journals IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organisation dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, has announced its call for paper submissions for its new gold fully open access journals. As the leader in electrical engineering and computer science research for both the academic and industry communities, IEEE is committed to helping further scientific research and supporting accessibility to technological information. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme De Gruyter increases staff to better serve authors, partners and customers in the US De Gruyter, an independent international academic publisher with roots in Germany, has significantly increased its presence in the United States by growing its office in Boston by 30 percent. The 16 colleagues in De Gruyter's Boston office and 14 colleagues in the rest of the country serve authors and librarians in the United States, Canada and Central and South America. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Northumbria University and Figshare partner to launch institutional research data repository Northumbria University has announced the launch of its institutional data repository, powered by Figshare and available on a custom domain at figshare.northumbria.ac.uk. The service will be available for all academic staff and postgraduate researchers at the university, giving them a citable DOI, a space for collaboration, and usage metrics for their research data. Using their university login credentials, researchers will be able to upload and share their research data with a reusable license. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Research on Research Institute to enable more strategic, open, diverse, and inclusive research The Wellcome Trust, the universities of Sheffield and Leiden, and Digital Science, have announced the launch of the Research on Research Institute (RoRI) – an international consortium of research funders, academic institutions, and technologists working to champion the latest approaches to research on research. The RoRI consortium will undertake transformative and translational research on research (also known as meta-research, science of science or meta-science). By analysing research systems and experimenting with decision and evaluation data, tools and frameworks, the aim is to advance more strategic, open, diverse and inclusive research. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme The Publishing & Special Collections Group names Rachel Lee as new Publications Manager The Publishing & Special Collections Group has announced the appointment of Rachel Lee as joined the new Publications Manager for eScholarship. Leveraging her deep expertise in journal publishing, Rachel will develop new programs and materials to support the success of the over 80 open access journals currently published in eScholarship today. 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: Vivienne C. Bachelet (What's in a name? How false author affiliations are damaging academic research); Caroline Mackay (A growing number of universities are exploring the use of open access text books. Are they the future teaching and learning materials?); Nicholas Rowe (Opinion: Why It Is Time to Make Conferences worth It); Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe and Michael Clarke (Fighting Citation Pollution — The Challenge of Detecting Fraudulent Journals in Works Cited); and Manya Whitaker (Which Publications Matter at Which Stages of Your Career?). 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. 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Knowledgespeak Newsletter

 

27 September 2019

CEN and ASTM International sign Technical Cooperation Agreement CEN, the European Committee for Standardization, and ASTM International have signed a Technical Cooperation Agreement with the aim to facilitate global dialogue and coordination in specific standardisation areas of mutual interest. The Agreement establishes a framework for technical cooperation and information exchange between the two standardisation organisations, thus facilitating dialogue and convergence on the technical requirements and related attributes of standards development, and preventing duplication of efforts, for the benefit of their respective stakeholders. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme O'Reilly announces new 2020 conference schedule O'Reilly, the premier source for insight-driven learning on technology and business, has announced its new 2020 conference schedule. To meet evolving technology and business demands, the company has made several changes to its historic conference line-up. This includes co-locating several of its namesake events, launching a new event series called the Infrastructure & Ops Conference, and emphasising learning paths as a foundational element of the event program to better suit the needs of attendees. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Weizmann Institute of Science opts for Ex Libris Esploro to manage and showcase research output and data Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science has selected the Ex Libris EsploroTM research services solution to help the institute capture research output and data from external sources, showcase the institute's research work, and comply with funders' open-access policies. The Esploro solution will replace Weizmann's institutional research repository and will be integrated with the institute's research information system. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ARL membership elects ARL Board of Directors 2019–2020 The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) elected its 2019–2020 Board of Directors on September 24 during the Fall 2019 Association Meeting in Washington, DC. At the end of the meeting on September 25, Lorraine Haricombe, vice provost and director of libraries at The University of Texas at Austin, began a one-year term as president of ARL. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme New open-access journal Frontiers in Digital Health launched Frontiers in Digital Health is making cutting-edge digital health research freely available through an open-access online platform. Led by Field Chief Editor Prof Björn Wolfgang Schuller of the University of Augsburg, Germany, and Imperial College London, Frontiers in Digital Health publishes rigorously peer-reviewed research in all major digital health science disciplines — from mobile applications to personalised medicine. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme   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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