(15 Jul 2020) IIUM (International Islamic University of Malaysia) created history last week when it was awarded the prestigious Green Gown International Award for the 2020 Sustainability Institution of the Year. This was announced in conjunction of the UN High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, July 8th, in New York. The feat…
(22 Sept 2020) IOP Publishing (IOPP) is revolutionising peer review learning with the launch of the world’s first peer review certification programme dedicated to the physical sciences. ‘Peer review excellence: IOP training and certification’ will give early career researchers the ability to review with confidence, increasing trust and standardising the quality of the process. …
(24 Sept 2020) The Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) calls on all scholarly publishers to open the abstracts of their publications, and specifically to distribute them through Crossref, in order to facilitate large-scale access and promote discovery of critical research. I4OA – a collaboration between scholarly publishers, academic librarians, researchers, infrastructure providers and other stakeholders – will launch at…
(22 Sept 2020) Elsevier’s new report – The Power of Data to Advance the SDGs – offers unique insights and initiatives, many developed together with partners, to map the state of research within each SDG area. The report acknowledges the pivotal role research plays in tackling some of the world’s greatest challenges. It aims to better understand the…