ScienceOpen’s Monthly Digest – October 2023
In October ScienceOpen was on the road
From Frankfurt to Stockholm and Bologna, it was a busy month for the ScienceOpen team! Here is a recap of the achievements and news of October.
The Frankfurt Book Fair is the largest book fair in the world and a highlight every October. Our booth was busy with discussions around books, current challenges in digital publishing processes, and innovations in book publishing. It was a great moment for networking and exchanging ideas with publishers from all over the world, and we got the chance to showcase the potential of our network for bridging different publishers and publishing needs together.
Frankfurt is a great place to connect with international academic publishers and show off some of ScienceOpen’s new features. This year, we combined the STM Frankfurt Conference with a stand at the book fair to meet with partners and customers.
Stephanie Dawson, CEO of ScienceOpen
In Stockholm, Sweden Stephanie Dawson spoke at the 2nd RExPO International Conference on Systems Medicine, Artificial Intelligence and Drug Repurposing and presented some of the open science features of the Drug Repurposing Central research and publishing portal for REPO4EU. It was an intense, information-packed two days and ScienceOpen was proud to be the publisher for the RExPO abstracts.
Nina Tscheke is just back from the Workshop on Open Citations #WOOC2023 in Bologna, Italy, presenting our next-generation infrastructure for digital A&I and registration services for books.
What a great conference it has been. It is always good to see what is cooking in the Open Science/OA community—the focus on open metadata and citations provided lots of new ideas for our content integration team. Only together can we consolidate the publishing landscape for better accessibility and discovery and find smarter ways for research assessment.
Nina Tscheke, Content Integration Manager
Keep the conversation going!
The Berlin Science Week starts tomorrow and runs from November 1-9 culminating in the Falling Walls conference on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall (add link). This international science festival features over 500 speakers and an audience of over 20,000. Keep your eyes open for the ScienceOpen team at a variety of events.
On November 9th, Stephanie Dawson will join the upcoming webinar for the Discoverability of African Research, which is part of a series that aims to assist African researchers, librarians, and institutions in the adoption of digital tools and persistent identifiers for a significant increase of African research discoverability.
Save the date and learn more about the webinar here.
A new book collection by Leuven University Press
Leuven University Press is a mission-driven academic press of international repute. Active in scholarly publishing for over 50 years, the press has built up a strong book collection in the Arts, Humanities and social sciences, with interdisciplinarity as a defining feature of many of the titles published by LUP.
Focused on sustainable and future-proof book publishing, LUP publishes books aimed at an international audience of scholars, students, and expert readers.
On ScienceOpen, hundreds of books and book chapter titles by Leuven UP will now be presented in a dedicated collection where readers can easily narrow down the vast list of publications by type of publication, publication date, name of author, or many other filters embedded as efficient discovery and search tools.
Take a glimpse of the collection below and share your favorite books with us:
- Silver Empowerment
- Anarchy of the Body
- Epicureanism and Scientific Debates
- Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation
Airburst and Crater research by Comet Research Group
The Comet Research Group’s joined ScienceOpen in October with publications relating to the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis. Articles by Comet Research Group are now featured in two ScienceOpen collections that highlight debates within the scientific community about this paradigm-shifting hypothesis.
Our services and tools equip researchers with enhanced discovery and dissemination opportunities, adding research that engages various scientific communities and researcher circles on our platform.
ScienceOpen puts the new research by Comet Research Group in the wider context of nearly 90 million publications.
Explore the most recent articles in the new collections by Comet Research Group:
- Evidence for a large late-Holocene Strewn Field in Kiowa County, Kansas, USA
- Microstructures in shocked quartz: linking nuclear airbursts and meteorite impacts
- X-Ray-luminous Supernovae: Threats to Terrestrial Biospheres
- Premature rejection in science: The case of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis
New journal collection by Decoding Infection and Transmission
Decoding Infection and Transmission is a gold open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the rapid publication and global dissemination of the latest research findings about the characteristics and mechanisms of pathogenic infections and disease transmission.
Fully open-access and peer-reviewed, Decoding Infection and Transmission welcomes infectious disease analyses and data resources, enriching our networks’ multidisciplinary content in all fields of relevance.
Highlighted articles:
- A new scoring system to predict tuberculosis among South-Tunisian patients with lymphocytic meningitis
- A new scoring system to predict tuberculosis among South-Tunisian patients with lymphocytic meningitis
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