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Cinturion Corp Ltd.: Cinturion and Partners Commence the Trans European Asia System The terrestrial and subsea open system is the first dual path state-of-the-art system linking Europe, the Middle East and India Cinturion Corp Ltd., a provider of scalable, subsea and terrestrial capacity-based network solutions spanning India, the Middle East and Europe, announces it has officially commenced construction of the Trans-Europe Asia System (TEAS). The project is set to deploy the most advanced ...

ACC Names Jianan Wang Inaugural Editor-in-Chief of JACC: Asia Dec 21, 2020 JACC: Asia, the newest addition to the JACC Journals portfolio and the first region-specific cardiovascular journal with original peer-reviewed content. Wang serves as the chair of the Heart Center at the Second Affiliated Hospital at Zhejiang University School of Medicine in China and is also a professor and associate dean at Zhejiang University School of Medicine. A leading interventional cardiologist, Wan...

0131) to read the article now. Facebook and its sister app Messenger were used by 87.4% and 71.4% of Myanmar youth living in conflict-affected areas. Overall, 58% of respondents indicated that they use social media, mainly Facebook, to read news. The results "suggest that young people living in conflict-affected areas of Myanmar are aware of the proliferation of fake news on social media, and often check the accuracy of the news they receive from this medium," states Dr. Brad Ridout, The Univer...

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(2) SEOUL, Dec. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- South Koreas National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST) and Elsevier, a global research publishing and information analytics provider, today announced a new three-year agreement that will provide South Korean researchers access to global academic research and offer them Open Access (OA) publishing options from January 1, 2021. The agreement provides 25 government-funded research institutes (GRIs) across South Korea under the administration o...

  Rohnert Park, CA - Effective immediately, the Wine Business Institute at Sonoma State University announces a name change of its open access Wine Business Case Research Journal to Wine Business Journal. The renaming follows fundamental changes to expand the scope of the publication to include empirical and conceptual research in addition to industry and regional case studies. The new approach will provide relevant and timely insights for the wine community at large. Vicky Farrow, CEO and ...

Bibliosan and Frontiers sign first Open Access Framework in Italy for Biomedical Institutions The first National Open Access Framework in Italy for Biomedical Institutions has today been signed by the Italian consortium of Biomedical Research Libraries - Bibliosan - and the leading open access publisher, Frontiers. The agreement is fully aligned with international open access mandates, including Europes Plan S. The new framework agreement applies to 51 Scientific Institutions for Research, Hosp...

ICT group presses Congress to pass bills on Open Access, Faster Internet Services Share on email The Better Broadband Alliance (BBA) has called on Congress to pass the Open Access in Data Transmission and Faster Internet Services bills to address poor Internet access, especially in the rural areas. In a letter sent to House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco and Senate President Vicente Sotto III, BBA urged the passage of two key policy reforms to heed Pres. Rodrigo Duterte’s repeated calls to improv...

High APCs Are a Feature, Not a Bug 14/12/2020 There has been some outrage at the announcement that  Nature is following through with their 2004 declaration of charging ~10k ($/€) in article processing charges (APCs). However, not only have these charges been 16 years in the making but the original declaration was made not on some obscure blog, but at a UK parliamentary inquiry. So nobody could rightfully claim that we couldn’t have seen this development coming from miles aw...

Open access: A problem way beyond one nation one subscription December 13, 2020, 7:11 PM IST The Best Things in Life Are Free. How wonderful it would be if this was true for research outputs.  Sadly, access to scholarly journal articles comes with a price posing a heavy financial burden on academic institutions. The past two decades have witnessed accelerated demand for open access (OA) to scholarly publications propelled by the progress in digital technologies. Global or...