Posts Tagged ‘Publishing’
PLOS Looking for Associate Editors
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, digital archiving, etc., we are sharing with our readers any career opportunities that we find. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the…
Read MoreApplications Being Accepted for ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2017
The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) awards are open to any new development, product, service, launch or project which is both innovative and of significant value to scholarly communication. The winners must demonstrate excellence in terms of originality and innovation, significance and value to its community, utility and long-term viability. Applications must define…
Read MoreContinued Partnership Looks at Progress
Publisher John Wiley & Sons and The Physiological Society have renewed their publishing partnership for a further 10-year term, building on over thirteen years of collaboration. KnowledgeSpeak brought this interesting news to us in their article, “John Wiley & Sons and The Physiological Society renew publishing partnership.” This renewed partnership will ensure that the Society’s…
Read MoreProtecting Your Space
In an effort to limit piracy and infringement on content, Google and other search companies are close to striking a voluntary agreement with entertainment companies to tackle the appearance of infringing content links in search results. This interesting information came to us from Torrent Freak in their article, “Search Engines & Copyright Holders Ready Voluntary Anti-Piracy…
Read MoreThe Dystopian Genre
Presidential elections signal many changes ahead for a country but no one really knows what those changes may lead to. This can instill many emotions amongst people. Hope and joy for the winning party and a whole range of negative emotions like fear, anger, unease in the losing party. There was confusion in 2000 when…
Read MoreNew Opportunities for Access
Sapient Global Markets has announced that the Sapient Synapse platform is registered under Bloomberg’s Enterprise Solutions Partner Program for the inclusion of Bloomberg Ontology and Provenance data. This interesting information came to us from Bob’s Guide in their article, “Sapient Enhances Synapse Platform with Bloomberg Ontology and Provenance Data.” This means business and technology users have the ability to…
Read MorePLOS Launches Channels
The Public Library of Science (PLOS) supports scientific communities wanting to broadly distribute research in open and accessible ways with their latest innovation, PLOS Channels. STM Publishing News brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “PLOS Channels Provide A Scholarly Home for Research Communities.” Channels are resources for research communities. Each is a single…
Read MoreCommunity Online Space Addresses Big Data
The academic publisher SAGE Publishing has relaunched its popular MethodSpace website, a free-entry online community with over 20,000 registered social and behavioural science researchers. Knowledge Speak brought this interesting information to us in their article, “SAGE Publishing relaunches MethodSpace with new Big Data Hub.” Among the many different topics, MethodSpace includes a hub focused on how…
Read MoreBest Practices in Anti-Counterfeit Efforts
Several academic publishers have joined forces with distributors in order to have them adopt and implement a set of anti-counterfeit best practices designed to address the growing problem of counterfeit print textbooks. KnowledgeSpeak brought this news to our attention in their article, “Major educational content providers and distributors join forces to fight counterfeit textbooks.” The education world has…
Read MoreInformation Industry Giant Dies
Eugene Garfield, founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and who launched the field of citation analysis, passed away on February 26, 2017. The Scientist brought us this sobering news in their release, “Scientometrics Pioneer Eugene Garfield Dies.” Garfield made a lasting impact on scientific, medical and scholarly research. In addition to the ISI’s Science…
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