Call for Papers for NFAIS Open Access Conference
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is calling for presenters for their annual Open Access event on October 1-2, 2018 in Old […]
Indexing the Past
Officials of one small town are looking for some professional help to preserve records. These aren’t just your ordinary county clerk records; some of […]
Natural Language Processing Acknowledged in Awards
The Amazon Research Awards (ARA) is one of Amazon’s ways of supporting external research that could potentially be integrated into the tech giant’s platform […]
Reporting Challenges
A challenge for many researchers is how to present data in a useful and approachable way. Chemistry World brought this interesting information to our attention […]
Capturing Ancient Medical Knowledge with Taxonomies
A collaboration between a Chinese university and Elsevier is undertaking the momentous task of cataloguing traditional Chinese medical knowledge as global clinical practice increasingly […]
Digital Preservation for Scholarly Publishing
Scientific print-publishing has never been a speedy process. It has long been a slow and cumbersome one. However, one associate editor at one of the very […]
New Platform for Academic Publishing
Cambridge University Press recently announced the expansion of Author Hub into a new, integrated online platform for book authors. This news came to us from STM […]
Open Access Publishing is Not a Fair Playing Field
The shift towards open-access publishing continues and in the process some new types of inequality within academia have been revealed. This interesting information came to […]
A New Drug
Social media and its impact on politics, religion, social policies and current affairs has been under the microscope for some time now. Many believe […]
The Rest of the Story
Last week we discussed the valuable information and story that data, specifically DNA data, can reveal. I shared our experience with canine DNA and […]