Humanity in the Digital World

The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering a unique and interesting learning experience. The NFAIS Humanities Roundtable 2015, sponsored by the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) and Quarles & Brady LLP, will take place Friday, October 2, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois, 8:45 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. CDT. This year’s theme, “Digital Humanities and Digital Publishing:…

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Learning Opportunities This Week

The Association of American Publishers is making available some very interesting and applicable speakers and topics during their Professional & Scholarly Publishing (PSP) webinars this week. The first one is today, July 21, 2015 at 12:30-1:30 p.m. with Dee Magnoni, Research Library Director at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dee will discuss Scholarly Communications at a National…

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New Agreement Takes Communications to the Next Level

CHORUS recently announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ORCID to support discoverability in scholarly communications. This type of collaboration among organizations like CHORUS and ORCID is key to continuing to meet the changing needs of the scholarly community. ORCID Executive Director Laurel Haak said, “Creating and supporting authoritative connections between researchers and…

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New and Better Access

Emerald Group Publishing has launched the Green Open Access, Zero Embargo trial applicable for all mandated articles submitted to the company’s library and information science (LIS) journals and to selected information and knowledge management journals. This interesting information came from Info Docket in their article, “Emerald Group Publishing Announces Library and Information Science Journals Green Open Access Trial.”…

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Building Trust in Science

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and publisher of the Science family of journals, has acquired “Peer Review Evaluation” (PRE), a web-based service that promotes public trust in science by making the review of original research more transparent and verifiable. We found this interesting news on Yahoo in their article, “AAAS, Publisher of…

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Seminar on Standards

The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers is hosting a timely seminar addressing standards. “Setting the Standard” is scheduled for November 11, 2015 in London. With standards playing an ever increasing role in journal publishing, this full day seminar addresses the issue from a publisher perspective.  This is a unique opportunity to acquire broad and practical knowledge…

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Working Together for Open Access

Springer has announced a partnership with IMISCOE, the largest network of excellence on migration and diversity in the world. This partnership will allow for the publication of their open access journal Comparative Migration Studies and their book series IMISCOE Research Series. Springer shared this news in their release titled, “Springer partners with IMISCOE on open access…

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