Publons Academy

Publons has launched the Publons Acadamy, a peer review training course for early career researchers, which aims to teach the core skills needed by a peer reviewer.

Peer Review Week

Peer Review Week 2017 has been announced. Running from 11-17 September, this is a global event that celebrates the importance of peer review in the scholarly communications landscape. Various online and in-person events will be organised around the world. See more information here.

RDM Toolkit

LEARN has launched the Toolkit of Best Practice for Research Data Management. It presents best practice case studies and sample policy and leadership strategies for setting up research data management plans. Free to download, it was launched at the LEARN Final Conference on 5 May 2017, in London, UK.

4:AM Altmetrics Conference

The 2017 Altmetrics Conference has been announced. It will be held in Toronto, Canada, from 26-29 September. The call for papers is open until 12 June.

LawArXiv

A new pre-prints server for law articles has been launched. LawArXiv is intended to host early versions of published papers.

Interpreting Altmetrics

Altmetric has produced a new blogpost on how to interpret Altmetric data around academic research. It reminds researchers not just to look at Altmetric scores, but to look more closely at the specific mentions.

Untangling Academic Publishing

Emerging from a 4-year project funded by the UK AHRC, the Untangling Academic Publishing has been published. It provides a historical grounding on the interrelationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the communication of research. In doing so, this report offers insights into what the future of academic publishing might look like.