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 Clarivate Analytics uses citations to forecast Nobel Prize winners
Clarivate Analytics, the global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation, has announced its 2017 Citation Laureates. Every year since 2002, analysts at Clarivate Analytics have mined millions of citations in the Web of Science to identify top-tier researchers in physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry – fields recognised by the Nobel Prizes in science. It also names Citation Laureates in economics since the Swedish National Bank established an award in this domain, in memory of Alfred Nobel, in 1968.
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 Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Montpellier joins Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées to become first French library network to select Ex Libris Alma and Primo
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Montpellier (BIU, or Interuniversity Library of Montpellier) has chosen the Ex Libris Alma® library services platform and the Primo® discovery and delivery solution to optimise library management and discovery. Alma and Primo will replace the Aleph® integrated library system.
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 eLife and Collaborative Knowledge Foundation partner to deliver open-source submission and peer-review platform
eLife and the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko) have announced a partnership to build a user-driven, open-source submission and peer-review platform. eLife aims to help scientists accelerate discovery by operating a platform for research communication that encourages and recognises the most responsible behaviours in science. The open-access journal eLife was the first step.
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 PLA, ALA and OCLC partnership support renewed ‘From Awareness to Funding’ advocacy study
The Public Library Association (PLA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), the ALA Office for Library Advocacy, and OCLC have announced a partnership to produce an update to OCLC’s 2008 report, ‘From Awareness to Funding: A Study of Library Support in America,’ which explored voter attitudes and perceptions about library funding. This landmark study was created to conduct research, develop strategies, create materials and evaluate the potential of marketing and communications programs aimed at increasing and sustaining funding for U.S. public libraries.
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 Emerald Publishing names eminent economist team to edit new journal, The Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership
Academic publisher Emerald Publishing has announced that the newly launched Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership (JPEO) will be edited by Richard B. Freeman, holder of the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University, and, Takao Kato, W.S. Schupf Professor of Economics and Far Eastern Studies at Colgate University. JPEO is the first leading forum for new economics of participation, economic analysis of new participatory work practices and shared capitalism.
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